TEHRAN – Iranian knowledge-based firms will set up their pavilions at the 17th international exhibition of medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, dentistry, and related services (UZMEDEXPO 2025), which is scheduled to be held in Tashkent from November 4 to 6, Mehr news agency reported.

The fair serves as an important platform for companies in the fields of medicine, pharmacy, and health services to present their latest products, services, and innovations, Mehr news agency reported.

A particular focus of the fair is on medical technology, medical equipment, and pharmaceuticals. These range from state-of-the-art medical devices and instruments to pharmaceuticals and services in dentistry. It is thus an important meeting point for professionals from various areas of the healthcare sector. Numerous international exhibitors take advantage of the fair to present their latest products and services to a broad professional audience and thus open up new business areas.

On the sidelines of the event, extensive programs including technical lectures, workshops, and discussion rounds on current topics and challenges in the healthcare sector will be held.

The exhibition will be centered around Medical equipment, instrumentation, and diagnostics like ultrasound equipment, endoscopic equipment, and accessories; Laboratory medicine, such as test systems, reagents. Stabilizers; Dentistry and Dental equipment and instruments including oral hygiene products; Ophthalmology Equipment and apparatus for ophthalmologist’s consulting rooms; Pharmaceutics and Medical drugs; Medical services and insurance Design, complex equipment of hospitals; Orthopedic and rehabilitation, Artificial limbs, corsets, dressings, Rehabilitation equipment and devices; as well as Beauty and Health Decorative and professional cosmetics like Aesthetic Medicine, Plastic surgery, and Devices for correction of a figure.

Self-sufficiency in medicine, medical equipment is a priority

The issue of medicine and medical equipment production and self-sufficiency in these areas is one of the government’s priorities, Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarqandi has said.

Medicine and medical equipment are two important areas related to people’s health, he said, adding: “We are trying to reach self-sufficiency for the supply of medicine and medical equipment,” IRNA reported

On January 13, the head of Iran’s Union of Medical Equipment Manufacturers and Exporters said that medical equipment worth around $20 million is exported to more than 60 countries annually.

More than 70 percent of medical equipment and 100 percent of normal hospital beds are domestically made, IRNA quoted Abdolreza Yaqoubzadeh as saying.

Also, over 95 percent of specific ICU and CCU beds and more than 85 percent of operating room medical equipment, such as anesthesia machines and other equipment, are manufactured with cutting-edge technology in the country, he added.

Yaqoubzadeh went on to say that the country’s need for medical equipment production is three to four billion dollars per year, some one billion dollars of which is imported.

Some 600 medical equipment companies are active in the country, producing around 99 percent of the medicine supplied to the domestic market.

Medical equipment manufacturers in the country produce and supply over 10,000 types of medical equipment to domestic and foreign markets. Now, various pieces of laboratory equipment are manufactured at prices much lower than the same foreign products.

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