Vietnam Medi Pharm Expo 2017 to take place in HCM City in August (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – As many as 250
enterprises operating in the pharmaceutical and medical sectors from 22
countries and territories are expected to display their products at the upcoming
medical and pharmaceutical exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City.
Taking
place at the Saigon Exhibition
and Convention Centre from August 17-19, the Vietnam Medi Pharm Expo 2017 will showcase medical
devices, healthcare and pharmaceutical products, functional foods, cosmetic,
processing and packaging machines, dental equipment, among others.
Exhibitors
will include Vietnamese giant firms and leading global companies from the US, Germany, Italy, France, Ukraine, Belarus,
Russia, Uzbekistan, Iran, Turkey, the Republic of Korea, Japan, China, India,
Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan and Thailand.
Workshops will be held within the framework of the expo, with
discussions covering Vietnam’smedical market and relevant regulations. A
fact-finding trip to a major hospital in HCM City will be organised for foreign
exhibitors to study demand for medical check-up and treatment of local residents
in HCM City in particular and Vietnam in general.
According
to the European Chamber
of Commerce in Vietnam, the
country’s medical equipment market is valued at465.4
million USD and is expected to reach 1.4 billion USD in 2018.
Meanwhile,
Vietnam has only about licensed 50 firms producing 600 devices, most of them
are simple equipment, failing to meet the demand of the domestic market.-VNA