SIALKOT: Chairman Surgical Instruments Manufacturers Association of Pakistan (SIMAP) Khalilur Rehman Mughal has stressed the Sialkot based surgical instruments manufacturers and exporters to focus on adopting the international standard advanced international marketing methods for ensuring the easy access of Sialkot-made surgical instruments to the international trade and export markets.
Addressing an important meeting of the surgical instruments manufacturers and exporters held here, the SIMAP Chairman Khalilur Rehman Mughal added that new international marketing methods could help to boom the surgical industry of Sialkot-Pakistan. He said that the surgical exporters must also focus on exploring and capturing the international markets of traditional and non-traditional surgical instruments besides ensuring the diversification of and value addition of the surgical instruments.
Addressing the participants, Leader of Pakistan’s surgical industry Muhammad Jehangir Bajwa stated that up-gradation of Sialkot’s more than a century old surgical industry has now become vital for flourishing this industry and putting it on modern lines through the provision of the direly needed and lacked skilled labour and adoption of the international standard advanced manufacturing technologies to meet the global trade challenges as well.
The UNIDO experts were also focusing on the capacity building of the surgical instruments manufacturers in Sialkot, he added. He said that UNIDO was ensuring surgical industry’s market driven development as well.
