The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has recommended setting up a new set of regulators at different levels for regulating the Medical Devices industry.
In its one-hundred thirty-eighth report on the medical devices: Regulation and Control, the standing committee said this step would greatly help the manufacturers and will reduce the time required to start a manufacturing unit thereby facilitating ease of doing business. Business Standard has seen the September 2022 report.
Unlike the present structure, the proposed regulator should license the manufacturing of all classes of medical devices i.e. Class A, B, C, and D, the

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