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Lord Darzi Promotes UK Healthcare Innovation Across Middle East
25/01/2010
By Lea Pachta
Lord Darzi promotes UK healthcare innovationp across Middle East
UK Business Ambassador Lord Darzi, a leading figure responsible for healthcare innovation and reform in the UK, today attended Arab Health 2010 to promote the UK's excellence in healthcare manufacture, services, technology and innovation.
Lord Darzi, an eminent British surgeon and former Health Minister, took part in the opening ceremony and demonstrated to HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum the world's first fully articulating bionic hand developed from within the NHS in Scotland by Touch Bionics.
Darzi also gave a keynote address to senior surgeons and clinicians and unveiled the first portable home haemodialysis machine designed by Uxbridge-based company Kimal plc.
Arab Heath 2010, which is being held in Dubai from 25-28 January, is the largest and most prestigious medical trade fair in the Middle East, attended by over 55,000 visitors last year. It presents a platform for UK companies to showcase their world-leading healthcare technologies and highlight how they are transforming the lives of patients and clinicians across the globe.
Lord Darzi said:
"The UK medical technology sector has 2,771 companies generating £10.6 billion of turnover. It has a large proportion of the world's most innovative medical technology SMEs, multinationals and leading R&D centres. It is at the forefront of healthcare innovation, and it gives me great pleasure to be able to promote such innovative technologies and solutions at Arab Health 2010.
"We already have excellent trading relationships with countries across the Middle East, with sustained investment in health delivery reforms leading to demand for the latest technologies and medicines. We are looking forward to developing new trading collaborations in the future."
Supporting the UK companies at Arab Health is UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), the UK Government's international business development body. UKTI has a network of life science... continued on page two >
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