Kerala to emerge as South Asia’s MedTech and life sciences hub: Minister Rajeeve

P Rajeeve (centre), Kerala Industries Minister, inaugurating a Excessive-Degree Strategic Funding Facilitation Dialogue for the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) and MedTech sector convened by the Business Division in affiliation with Agappe Diagnostics Ltd.

Kerala has set a transparent goal to emerge as a number one South Asian hub for medical units, diagnostics and life-sciences manufacturing, P Rajeeve, the State Industries Minister, has stated.

He was inaugurating a Excessive-Degree Strategic Funding Facilitation Dialogue for the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) and MedTech sector convened by the Business Division in affiliation with Agappe Diagnostics Ltd.

The closed-door dialogue, held as a part of Agappe’s thirtieth anniversary yr, introduced collectively senior authorities officers, world MedTech and diagnostics corporations from Japan, US, China and different worldwide markets, funding advisory corporations, Indian producers, healthcare service suppliers, analysis establishments and coverage stakeholders.

“The medical units and life sciences sector lay on the core of Kerala’s growth philosophy. Kerala’s progress has at all times been rooted in robust social foundations comparable to public well being, schooling and human growth. We’re consciously carrying this legacy ahead into superior manufacturing, biotechnology and medical units,” the Minister stated.

He underlined that biotechnology and MedTech weren’t area of interest laboratory actions however strategic pillars of Kerala’s future financial system. Medical units, he famous, uniquely combine biomaterials, superior manufacturing, electronics, knowledge science, clear vitality and local weather duty, making them central to future-ready industrial coverage.

Thomas John, Managing Director, Agappe Diagnostics, stated the dialogue was supposed as a catalytic platform to help Kerala’s long-term MedTech roadmap. He stated the corporate sees robust potential for India–Japan collaboration in precision diagnostics, automation, imaging and digital well being, with Kerala serving as a trusted base.

The discussions have been aligned with the India–Japan Joint Imaginative and prescient for the Subsequent Decade (2025–2035) and centered on translating bilateral cooperation into funding facilitation, joint R&D, know-how switch, regulatory cooperation and manufacturing partnerships.

Revealed on January 24, 2026