Dear Sir,

Department of Defence Research and Development and Department of Science and Technology in association with Dept. of Rural Development, Ministry of Health, ICMR and other like minded organisations came together in the year 1993 to bring the high technologies developed in India in Defence Space, Atomic Energy and other scientific fields to the common man by providing �AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE�.

To meet this aim, a Society for Biomedical Technology was formed under the chairmanship of then Scientific Adviser to the Raksha Mantri, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

This interministerial initiative was spearheaded by Dr. Lazar Mathew, the then Director of Defence Bioengineering and Electromedical Laboratory (DEBEL), Bangalore who worked as its Chief Executive for almost nine years.

The main achievements of SBMT have been in creating a national awareness about the need and possibility of development medical equipment and devices indigenously; and also involving interdisciplinary and interoganisational collaboration between scientists and doctors for the purpose. The Society succeeded in developing certain items such as Coronary Stent, Cardiac, Pacemaker, Cytoscan, Floor Reaction Orthosis, Artificial Lower Limb, Eye Laser, Slit Lamp, Microscope and Hospital Informatics. However, SBMT didn�t have appropriate mechanism to involve industries who could take these technology developments to market and thereby achieving the desire results.

We have identified this lacunae in the system and now want to involve industries in a major way; hence this mail.

Gist of some of the ongoing work of this Society is given below. For more details and earlier work done by the Society kindly visit our web site www.sbmtindia.org.

SBMT is looking forward to a joint partnership with industries, academia, hospitals and all other institutions that are directly or indirectly involved and interested in providing affordable health care to common man.

On behalf of the Society, I can assure you it will be possible for the Society to make all the technologies developed in the Departments mentioned above except those which are �CLASSIFIED� in National interest.

You may send your reply by E-mail, FAX or by letter on the address given below:

CHIEF EXECUTIVE / PROGRAMME MANAGER
SOCIETY FOR BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
DEBEL - DRDO
ADE CAMPUS
CV RAMAN NAGAR
BANGALORE 560 093

EMail : contact@sbmtindia.org
Phone : 080-25284235
FAX : 080-25284235

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CRITICAL CARE VENTILATOR
Named INVENTA, it is the fully Functional Critical Care Ventilator designed to meet the needs of Indian Healthcare after years of extensive research involving medical professionals, academics and scientists. Read more »

LAPOROSCOPIC SURGERY TRANING SIMULATOR
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Technology is now available for transfer to interested parties for commercial exploitation. Read more »

COCHLEAR IMPLANT
Indigenous multi electrode cochlear prosthesis for the benefit of profoundly deaf people. The indigenously developed Cochlear Implants are getting ready for human trials. The item is available for technology transfer for its commercial exploitation. Read more »

INDIAN MEDICAL DEVICES REGULATORY AUTHORITY (IMDRA)
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