{"id":38463,"date":"2018-12-10T18:39:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=38463"},"modified":"2018-12-10T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:09:35","slug":"blood-pressure-monitors-nebulizers-other-medical-devices-may-cost-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/blood-pressure-monitors-nebulizers-other-medical-devices-may-cost-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood pressure monitors, nebulizers other medical devices may cost less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/industry\/blood-pressure-monitors-nebulizers-other-medical-devices-may-cost-less-all-you-need-to-know\/1408756\/\">Blood pressure monitors, nebulizers other medical devices may cost less<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medical devices like nebulizers, blood pressure monitors, notified as drugs under Drugs and Cosmetics Act <strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Drug Technical Advisory Body (DTAB)<\/strong> had cleared the proposal to include <strong>blood pressure<\/strong> <strong>monitoring devices, nebulizers, digital thermometers and glucometers<\/strong> under the purview of the Drug law.<\/li>\n<li>After the proposal medical devices may cost less.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)<\/strong> would regulate the import, manufacture and sale of these devices from January 1, 2020.<\/li>\n<li><strong>As of now, just 23 medical devices are monitored for quality by DGCA<\/strong>. With the inclusion of four new devices, there will be 27 medical devices under the definition of drugs under the Act.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other medical equipment is currently sold without any clinical trials or quality checks<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>All these devices will have to be registered under the quality parameters prescribed under Medical Devices Rules 2017 and other standards set by the Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) certification<\/li>\n<li>The ministry has also proposed to expand the list of devices in eight new categories, including MRI equipment, CT scan equipment, defibrillators, dialysis machines, PET equipment, X-ray machines and bone marrow cell separator, under the purview of the drug law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional Information<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About Drug Technical Advisory Body (DTAB)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>DTAB is highest statutory decision-making body on technical matters related to drugs in the country.<\/li>\n<li>It is constituted as per the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.<\/li>\n<li>It is part of Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood pressure monitors, nebulizers other medical devices may cost less News: Medical devices like nebulizers, blood pressure monitors, notified as drugs under Drugs and Cosmetics Act Facts: The Drug Technical Advisory Body (DTAB) had cleared the proposal to include blood pressure monitoring devices, nebulizers, digital thermometers and glucometers under the purview of the Drug law.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/blood-pressure-monitors-nebulizers-other-medical-devices-may-cost-less\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blood pressure monitors, nebulizers other medical devices may cost less<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700774893,"cached_date":1704803288},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}