SIALKOT: Sialkot based surgical instruments manufacturers, vendors and exporters have urged the government to announce advanced training programmes and workshops of the essential skills for preparing and providing the skilled labour to the surgical industry of Sialkot, enabling it to meet the global trade challenges, besides, ensuring surgical exporters’ easy access to world’s international trade markets as well.
Leader of surgical industry of Sialkot-Pakistan Chairman Jehangir Bajwa stated this while talking to the newsmen here. Chairman Surgical Instruments Manufacturers Association of Pakistan (SIMAP) Khalilur Rehman Mughal was also present on this occasion.
Jehangir Bajwa said that Sialkot’s surgical industry has been suffering from the shortage of skilled labour. He added that more than one century old surgical industry of Sialkot-Pakistan was in dire need of skilled labour.
He revealed that the time was high to modernize the surgical industry by ensuring the early transfer of advanced manufacturing technology from European countries to this industry in Sialkot as well.
He disclosed that the surgical industry of Sialkot-Pakistan has enough potential to double the surgical exports from existing US $ 400 million within the next couple of years with the proper patronage by the government, in this regard.
On this occasion, Chairman SIMAP Khalilur Rehman asked the surgical exporters to also focus on the diversification of traditional to non-traditional surgical instruments. He added that this direly needed early diversification could help to boost surgical instruments’ exports. He said that surgical Industry is producing over ten thousand different medical instruments. Covering all sections of Surgical, Dental, Veterinary, Beauty and so many other products, he added.
He said that more than one century old surgical industry of Sialkot was in dire need of modernization and adopting the positive steps for advanced standers of international marketing and brand developing could help to save the surgical industry.
He said that the Sialkot based surgical manufacturers and exporters have enough potential to capture the international markets of hospitals related surgical items, having market of US $ 1 billion, if government properly patronizes Sialkot’s surgical industry, which has only 1 percent share in this world market consumption.
He urged the local manufacturers and exporters to focus on the diversification of traditional to non-traditional exports with a sole aim to meet the global trade challenges.
Leader of surgical industry of Sialkot-Pakistan Jehangir Bajwa revealed that the surgical industry of Sialkot has sought the early proper governmental patronage for promoting this industry and the easy access of Sialkot based surgical instruments manufacturers and exporters to the international markets, which have a great potential of consumption of Sialkot-made non-traditional surgical instruments, paving the way of increase in the surgical exports from Sialkot due to alleged negligence of concerned government functionaries and lacked continuity of the trade and export policies in the country…#
