FICCI will hold the third international conference and exhibition on medical electronics in Delhi on June 2 and 3 to highlight the advancements and opportunities leading to benefits and improvements for this sector taking into consideration quality, affordability and accessibility for the larger good.

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad will inaugurate the conference, which is held once in two years. Key speakers will include decision makers from relevant ministries, accreditation bodies, super-specialty hospitals, armed forces hospitals, AIIMS, leading companies like GE, Philips, Johnson & Johnson, BPL, Wipro, Boston Scientific, HCL, Quest Diagnostics. The delegates from companies in anaestheology, orthopaedics, surgery, oncology, organ transplant, infection protocols, ICT are participating, according to a release from the organisers.

Apart from technology enablement in cardiology, urology, orthopaedics, nephrology, this time the conference will focus on infection protocols, guidelines for trauma management global experience sharing and surgical interventions.

The healthcare industry is growing at 14 per cent in the country while per capita spending on medical devices is low when taken into account the 2 billion dollar medical devices market and the 1.3 billion population. The sector has witnessed a tiered segmented growth, the organisers said.

The conference will also discuss the growth pattern, potential, urbanisation, increasing medical insurance coverage, challenges of cashless health insurances, rising quality standards, high penetration of mobile telephony and the need for skilled healthcare manpower.

Doctors, diagnostic professions, CEOs and key decision makers from front line companies, directors of hospitals and delegates of labs would be among those to attend the conference. The organisers said a number of senior diplomats from foreign missions in India and those from Indian missions abroad had been invited for the event.