GE Health bets on Ayushman Bharat, to help SAMEER develop indigenous MRI

GE Healthcare expects demand for its devices to go up as healthcare becomes more accessible and is looking to train people who can operate these machines

American manufacturing giant General Electric's healthcare unit has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with SAMEER, a research and development (R&D) lab under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), to co-develop an indigenous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine.

GE Healthcare and SAMEER will collaborate on the research, design and development of a 1.5 Tesla MRI platform that will give rise to whole-body, portable and digital MRI machines. The multinational firm has supplied the magnet, which is one of the most critical components, for the prototype MRI machine that SAMEER is developing.

SAMEER is an independent lab set up