From Editor's Desk

Worldwide, an estimated 1.9 million patients suffer from chronic kidney failure. In India one in ten people has some form of chronic kidney disease. Diabetes and hypertension are responsible for more than 60 per cent cases of chronic kidney disease. Fifteen per cent of adults in urban areas are diabetic and 40 per cent of these are likely to develop kidney disease.

The emergence of new therapeutic interventions has created opportunities in India to manage the progression of renal diseases.

The dialysis industry has witnessed a sea change in the last decade and is now global services industry dominated by a handful of big, vertically integrated players.

Although experiments with dialysis are said to have occurred thousands of years ago, dialysis as we know it has its roots in the 20th century.

Mr. D.L. Pandya

Editor

Dr. Willem Kolff is considered the father of dialysis. Thanks to the efforts of Kolff and Scribner and other medical pioneers like them, people with chronic kidney disease are now able to live full and productive lives.

Some of the important products frequently used are described at length in this issue.

One of free India’s earliest, most critical revolutions took place in 1952 in the field of healthcare. At a time when most patients were vulnerable and many succumbed to infection caused by re-usable medical devices, “Romsons” stepped forward with a pioneering breakthrough – the concept of disposable medical and surgical devices.

Shri Kishore Khanna , Managing Director, Romsons International, shares the challenges faced by his company while achieving the success in becoming a “Pioneer & Leader” and also his views about the strength and weaknesses of the Indian Medical Device Industry.

Conference on : "Indian Medical Devices & Plastics Disposables Industry 2009"

Following on the success of previous Conferences organised by us , we are happy to announce the next two day conference on : "Indian Medical Devices & Plastics Disposables Industry 2009" on Feb. 27 – 28 , 2009 in Ahmedabad.

The Conference will discuss number of critical issues of importance to Medical Device Industry covering Medical Plastics & other Disposables , Implantables , Non-Wovens And Other Medical Textiles, Electro-Medical Equipments , Medical Electronics Equipments , Imaging , Diagnostics & Laboratory Products , Rehabilitation Equipments etc.

You can find details about the conference at : www.imdiconferences.com

Flexible PVC makes up a 30% of disposable medical devices. And to make PVC extremely flexible there is a need of plasticizer in terms of 40 % – 50 % which is added to the PVC Resin. An article by Mr. Carsten Goebel and Dr. Rainer Otter of BASF South East Asia Pte Ltd introduces a Non-phthalate plasticizer having a proven excellent toxicological profile alongwith good technical properties.

This issue of the magazine , “MEDICAL PLASTICS DATA SERVICE” also covers regular features including Industry News, Global Trends, Market Trends & Analysis, Events etc.

D.L. Pandya