India - Cook Medical to Aggressively Expand in India

The company will be setting up three new centres in Mumbai, New Delhi and Chennai through its Indian Arm Cook, India

Cook Medical, a global manufacturer, innovator and distributor of minimally invasive medical device technology for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, has drawn up major expansion plans in India. The company will be setting up three brand new offices and warehousing facilities in Mumbai, New Delhi and Chennai through its Indian arm Cook Medical India.

Cook Medicals is also introducing some new innovative products in heart care and women’s health segment. With the increasing implantation of cardiac rhythm management devices such as pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) throughout Asia, the need to extract problematic cardiac leads is also growing. Lead management products from Cook Medical play a major role in this space and may facilitate the minimally-invasive removal of dysfunctional or infected cardiac leads.

The company’s women’s health business unit is also playing a critical role in combating diseases affecting mothers during pregnancy and delivery with innovative products like the Bakri Postpartum Haemorrhage Balloon for the treatment of Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). In fact, 136,000 women are estimated to die during or after childbirth in India every year with PPH the most commonly reported complication and the leading cause of death (29.6 per cent).

The company is also expanding into Mumbai, New Delhi and Chennai to enable hospitals, physicians and patients’ to gain better access to Cook India’s wide range of high-quality medical devices. The expansion will also help Cook India scale up its operations in the country and build on its broad and innovative product offering.

The three centres will be inaugurated by Rod Solomons, Trade and Investment Commissioner to South Asia, Government of Queensland, Australia, Barry Thomas, Vice-President Cook Medical, Director – Asia Pacific and R Suresh, Country Director, Cook Medical India.

EH News Bureau

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