MEDICAL TEXTILE

PRODUCTS,APPLICATION MARKETS IN BANGLADESH

PRESENTATION BY SM MOHIUDDIN ID 073-23-657

MEDICAL TEXTILES
Medical Textiles is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors in the technical textile market. Medical Textiles are the products and constructions used for medical and biological applications and are used primarily for first aid, clinical and -hygienic purposes. It consists of all those textile materials used in health and hygienic applications in both consumer and medical [Link] such it comprises a group of products with considerable variations in terms of product performance and unite [Link] of the nature of their application many medical products are disposable [Link] increased use of textiles in composite applications will provide major growth fiber consumption in terms of [Link] hitherto increase and forecast in world consumption of medical textiles is presented in the following figure.

FOCAL POINTS OF MEDICAL TEXTILE:

Textile has always been a part of healthcare. Combination of Textile Technology and Medical Sciences has resulted into MEDICAL TEXTILES. Medical Textiles are one of the faster growing sectors of the global Technical Textile industry Recently only application of textiles has started going beyond the usual wound care incontinence pads plasters etc. Latest innovation so that, wide variety of woven non woven knitted forms of textile increasingly finding their way into a variety of surgical procedures. As healthcare industry is growing enormously in Bangladesh the demand for the medical textile is also on the rise.

 Why textile implants ?

Biocompatible materials Material combinations 2D- and 3D-structures Mechanical characteristic adapted to the environment Adjustable macroscopic structure Specific surface design Controllable degradation

The use of textile materials for medical and healthcare products can be classified into following main areas - Barrier material (for infection control) - Bandaging & pressure garment - Wound care material - Hygiene material - Implantable material (sutures, art. Joints etc) - Extra Corporal devices (like art. Kidney etc)

Requirements of textile material for medical applications Biocompatible Good resistance to alkalis, acids and micro-organisms Good dimensional stability Elasticity Free from contamination or impurities Absorption / Repellency Air permeability.

Medical Textile Products & Application:

Surgeons wear, wound dressings, bandages, artificial ligaments, sutures, artificial liver/kidney/lungs, nappies, sanitary towels, vascular grafts/heart valves, artificial joints/bones, eye contact lenses and artificial cornea and the like are some of the examples of medical textiles

Medical textiles in Bangladesh

Bangladesh lags behind in medical textile products as neither the Govt. nor the textile industry has made any serious efforts towards syncronizing textile products with the emerging needs of the world markets by developing high value added [Link] the T&C sector is the backboneof our export economy, our Govt. as well as the textile industry has kept their focus on conventional [Link] medical textiles and knowledge-based [Link] competition continues to increase in the general ands consumer textile industry, the low value added product manufactures in near furure face the question of how to survive in a truly global market Our neighboring country India as well as China has named in the production of Medical [Link] are progressing steadily with their Govt. [Link] very awful for us thet our Govt. could not concentrate yet on this Vass sector.

Market size of Medical textile items

Non-woven textiles market size:

 Disposable non woven textiles will dominate Medical Textiles [Link] for hygiene products will go huge.  In next 10 years,1 million ton of non woven textiles is the production level expected.  Current Indian non woven textiles is 70 thousand tons (which was the same level in china 15 years ago).  China producing today 1 million ton of non woven textiles.

Opportunities & Challenges ahead

Opportunities Consumption is increasing rapidly Pvt. Hospital chains are growing Doctor/patient awareness for hygiene is increasing Medical tourism Challenges China has become very strong in most of Healthcare & hygiene products There are very few BIS standards in place leading to substandard quality products being used Export benefits like DD/DEPB not notified for many products Market research as well as R&D program is badly needed. To convince the investor though here is high investment is required

Conclusion
We have thus so far seen what is the current scenario and what are the future requirements of Medical Textiles. Medical Textiles are one of the dynamically expanding sectors and development of same is to convert pain full days of patients into comfortable days. As medical procedures continue and transform, the demand for textile materials is bound to grow and grow.