Iran to unveil dialysis machine soon

Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education says the first locally-produced dialysis machine and other medical devices will hit the market by year’s end.

“The initial experiments of the device have terminated and we seek local investors for the mass-production of the dialyzer,” Mehr news agency quoted Ebrahim Motevallian, Deputy Health Minister as saying on Saturday.

According to the minister, more than 80 percent of medical devices, including operating room disposables and special hospital beds, are now domestically produced and the surplus of supplies is exported overseas to neighboring and a number of European countries.

The Iranian official also pointed out that the country’s medical equipment sector is also aiming to produce sophisticated MRI imaging machines which are currently undergoing tests.