Surgical instruments produced in Pakistan are used around the globe, saving lives a number of people every day, it is serving humanity. Pakistan's surgical instruments export to the world is $250 million per annum and to UK in 2010 is $23.19 million, which is 9.28 percent of its total exports. Whereas UK's total import of this sector is $3.368 billion with Pakistan's shares 0.69 percent only.
Over 95 percent of surgical instruments producers in Pakistan have international certification and have adopted good manufacturing practices while their manufacturing arrangements were supervised by highly skilled craftsmen and professionals and many internationally reputed brands have joint ventures in Pakistan, said Senior Vice Chairman Surgical Instrument Manufacturers Association of Pakistan (SIMAP) Jehangir Bajwa in a press release.
He further said that SIMAP is playing a vital role in capacity building and modernisation of surgical industry in Pakistan with the help of Engineering Development Board (EDB) and Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR). SIMAP has upgraded manufacturing standards of industry and was also focusing to bring new technologies, he said.
He regretted that BBC Panorama has negative reporting on surgical industry of Pakistan and have not highlighted factuality adding that BBC Panorama stated that Barts and the London NHS trust reject 20 percent of tools as unsafe for use. It shows that they have strong checking procedures though its questionable either these tools are actually imported from Pakistan or from any other origin and also there is never any feedback on substandard tools from NHS, he disclosed. It doesn't make any sense to build a story with reference to a phone call. If there was any flaw in quality evaluation of UK-based departments, one can never blame Pakistan surgical industry, he added.
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