BioMed Bharat 2026: MP calls upon youth to drive MedTech innovation
Member of Parliament and GITAM president M. Sribharat called for greater collaboration among medicine, engineering, management and natural sciences to develop healthcare solutions at BioMed Bharat 2026, a two-day national Biomedical Device Innovation Hackathon hosted by GITAM Deemed to be University.
Mr. Sribharat said hackathons should be a starting point for developing solutions to real-world healthcare challenges and urged students and academic institutions to move beyond prototypes towards execution-ready solutions. He also highlighted the Andhra Pradesh Med Tech Zone (AMTZ) in Visakhapatnam as a major medical-device manufacturing cluster.
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