A health ministry subject expert committee (SEC) approved Gujarat-based Meril Life Science’s bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) at a meeting, a senior government official told ET on condition of anonymity. The official approval of the government to market the stent is expected in a few weeks, said the official.
The health ministry has approved the country’s first locally made bioresorbable cardiac scaffold, or naturally dissolving stent for clearing blockages in arteries that carry blood to the heart.
Out of more than five lakh coronary stents used in the country in 2016, only around 8,000 were BVS, mainly because of its high prices, analysts said.
(Reference: http://www.pharmatutor.org/pharma-news/2017/health-minister-approve-first-india-made-dissolvable-stent)