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Dakshina Kannada towards Medical Tourism

Summa: Process is on at national level for selecting DK for Medical Tourism . Prime Minister Narendra Modi is showing eagerness in this regard.

Oh cosmos, whatever Mangaluru MP promised till today is not realized so far. Whether it is IT Park, Special Agricultural Zone, Coconut Park, Plastic Park, Maravoor Smart City, World Standard Railway Station or whatever else. Why? Why did he utter Medical Tourism now! Shouldn't he leave it for others to get it realized. And better not talk about Udupi MP.

Here are some extracts from my earlier post

Originally Posted by BolliBatlu

Along with Pharma Park the government could also be planning for clinical research facilties. But where? Sequent is having some research facility in Mangalore in itst campus. Syngene is also planning.

Mangalore also needs a Electronic System Design & Manufacturing cluster focusing specifically on Medical Devices domain. There was some plan for developing Belapu as ESDM cluster.

Since Mangalore MP has identified some other location for Ultra Mega Power Plant government land available in Niddodi can even be considered for these industries. Even UMPP itself is now doubtful as I said earlier.

To develop as a strong Medical or Healthcare or Wellness City as mentioned in my previous post Mangalore should also have very good R&D cum innovation facility in medical domain. I have listed a few small research institutes in my previous post on this subject. One more is researches done by Mangalore University in collaboration with BARC in Nuclear domain applied to healthcare field - CARRT, Biosciences. A few companies are there working on Clinical Research - MCRF, Ecron Acunova, MCCR. There are a few others like Spandana Metabolics, i-POINT, Stempeutics-Manipal. But all these researches are happening in a relatively small scale. There is also a clincial sciences teaching institute called EICS in Mangalore.

Kunjathabail Wellness & Knowledge Smart City should have dedicated institutes which teach Basic & Applied Research or Pre-clinical Research, Clinical Research, Translational research. Specialized intitutes teaching Biomedical Electronics & Instrumentation, Medical Robotics & Artifical Intelligence, Nanomedicine, Medical Genetics, Cellular & Molecular biology, Immunology, Pharmacology (A full list is available in Medical Research) and other disciplines like Ayurveda, Naturopathy, etc. In other words it should be a fullfledged Knowledge City on Medical domain. (Mangalore already has a strong teaching base in nursing, physiotherapy, etc.) And it should have Research facilities & 'Startup Village' supporting basic & applied researches including Pre-clinical Research, Clinical Research, Translational research. Interdisciplinary teams should be encouraged. For example 3D-printing or Tissue Engineering or Medical Instrumentation fields need doctors, engineers, chemists, physicists, biologists, etc. Interdisciplinary research should happen in non-allopathic medicines also.

In this regard if Mangalore can get a institute like AIIMS it would be great.

Originally Posted by BolliBatlu

Mangaluru awaits nod for plastic park at Invest Karnataka 2016 meet in Bengaluru

There are plastic based electronics and non-electronics medical products. Plastic components for medical products like X-ray, MRI, CT, PET, Blood analysis machines can be produced & supplied to OEMs. Mangaluru can develop different types of clusters like plastic, electronics, metal targetting electronics devices in stages and or can have fullfledged medical devices cluster itself including nanomedical products.

Along with Plastic Park we should have a CIPET for R&D focusing exclusively on medical plastic & medical textile products. CIPET, NIPER can be part of Knowledge city at Kunjathabail. (Karnataka had agreed to give land for establishing a Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology research centre (5 to 10 acres), CIPET has a small campus in Mysuru and land for its research centre is expected to be finalised shortly) Mangalore can also try for other R&D institutes like marine biology and biotechnology (which PM announced in 103rd Indian Science Congress meeting at Mysore University) focusing on medicinal applications. Tannirbhavi was supposed to have Marine Biotech Park.

Mangalore can work on innovative adaptive 3D printing technology for making re-usable or biodegradable medical textile or antimicrobial plastic products for medical use and even drugs (NIPER). (The State government is keen to locate the pharma park at Hassan, Mangaluru or Yadgir) And proposed Textile Park can be Medical Textile Park. And needs type of innovation like this one as Mangalore also produces ocean waste - Adidas Unveils 3D-Printed Shoe Made From Plastic Ocean Waste.

With good medical professionals base & innovative treatments when Mangaluru becomes manufacturing point for medical devices & drugs it will become an economical destination for medical tourists. This is true for non-allopathic medicines also.

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Andhra Pradesh CM minister proposes Rs. 20,000 crores Medical Devices Manufacturing Park for AP at Confederate of Indian Industry or CII Partnership Summit. Can Mangalore politicians influence Karnataka CM to propose Medical City at Mangalore during Global Investors Meet? The medical city should have hospitals, wellness centers, R&D facilities, medical teaching institutes and medical products manufacturing park nearby.

Medical devices could be a $30 bn industry in 10 years: AdvaMed
13th National Conference And Technology Exhibition On Indian Medical Devices & Plastics Disposables / Implants Industry 2016 (IMDI 2016), Ahmedabad

It looks like currently Ahmedabad & Gujarat are much ahead of others in India in developing support environment for Medical Tourism.

What is Medical Tourism? - A Complete Ahmedabad City Guide
Ahmedabad Medical Disposables Manufacturers’ signs MoU with Italian Cluster, CONSOBIOMED
Gujarat may get India's first medical device park

Important thing is to have right institutional backup.

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Dubai Healthcare City

Originally Posted by BolliBatlu

In summary Mangaluru needs following industries

1. Pharmaceuticals Park (including Nanomedicine)
2. Marine Biotechnology Park (Marine medicines)
3. Polymer-Plastic Park (Plastic based Medical Devices & Components)
4. Textile Park (Medical Textile)
5. Medical Electronics ESDM Cluster
6. Metal & Non-Plastic Composite Materials Fabrication & Machining Cluster (focused on Medical Devices & Components, MSEZ plan for Machine Tools may be for serving petrochemical industries) (Manufacturing Processes)
7. Medical Devices Manufacturing Cluster

And needs following research institutes

1. National Institute for Pharmaceutial Education & Research (> 100 acres)

2. Biomedical Engineering Education & Research Institute (> 200 acres)

AIIMS is added advantage but not compulsory as Mangaluru has capable Hospitals already.

Biomedical Engineering Education & Research Institute is for researchs on Medical Devices. And then

And needs Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering products.

Mangaluru can start with manufacturing class 1 medical devices first and then move up to more risky higher classes of devices.

Anyway, let me summarize all things I mentioned so far here for making Mangaluru a mega medical/health city and medical/wellness/health tourism city.

• Declare Mangaluru, Udupi, Bantwal taluks as Medical Investment Region (or Dental & Cosmetics Investment Region) consisting of special economic zones for health cities and medical products manufacturing. This region should also support startups in biodental, biocosmetic and other biomedical/biomimetic engineering domains.
• Following National Laboratories
  • National Institute for Pharmaceutial Education & Research
  • School of Marine Pharmacognosy
  • Biomedical Engineering Education & Research Institute
• Medical/Healthcare Innovation/Startup Hubs
• Centre for Excellence for Health Informatics including Ayurinformatics
• IT Park dedicated to Healthcare
• Subsea Data Centre for storing Health Informations (we have to also check whether Subsea Data Centre can facilitate growth of marine medicinal organisms)
• Following industrial clusters for manufacturing medical materials
  • Medical Electronics/Robotics ESDM Cluster
  • Metal & Non-Plastic Composite Materials Fabrication & Machining Cluster (focused on Medical Devices & Components)
  • Medical Devices Manufacturing Cluster (general)
  • Polymer-Plastic Park focusing on medical devices
  • Technical Textile Park focusing on medical textile products
  • Pharmaceuticals Park (including Nanomedicine)
  • Ayush Medicine Park
  • Marine Biotech Parks (With an exclusive Marine Medicine Aquaculture Zone. Rather than ornamental fishes & plants Mangalore should focus on aquaculture of marine medicinal plants - marine pharmacognosy. Let us find out whether there will be anything on marine pharmacognosy in Aqua Aquaria India 2017 exhibition on May 14-16.)
• Herbal Plant Parks in surrounding coastal and malenadu regions
• Spiritual Healing Centres to promote Cruise Spiritual Tourism (1, 2)

Of course development of airport, roads & other transportation infrastructure are also important to achieve the vision of becoming health city. We have to check whether marine pharmacognosy may in turn help in development of entertainment tourism like scuba diving.

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Mangaluru: Coming soon - 'Drifter', India's first-ever electric car designed for long drives

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Let us hope in addition all types of boats will be replaced by electric boats. I think battery is enough to operate boats even beyond 40 nautical miles. Anyway boats and cars can have solar roofs also. In addition there could be electric tankers for recharging boats if needed or even offshore floating/fixed wind mills (what a nice place, to halt & recharge, will be a floating/fixed restaurant attached to wind mill) or offshore fixed/floating solar plants with proper anchorage as recharging points. Even wave & under sea current options can be explored. For passengers, initially we can have electric boats operating between Mangaluru Old port and Malpe port at normal speed and then highspeed electric boats can be introduced extending service to airport. Next would be Boat Rapid Transit System.

Mangaluru-Mumbai travel by an eletric boat with say 300 km battery mileage may require three recharging points offshore or onshore at in between ports.

Who knows in near future there may also be efficient electrical amphibious vehicles!

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Indian Open of Surfing website launched
Indian Open of Surfing to be powered by TT Group of Companies

http://indianopenofsurfing.com/

Mantra Surf Club website says e-visa not available in MIA.

Whether any 'surf yoga' event will be there?

10 Yoga Positions on a stand up paddle board.
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MCC to build more drains, footpaths

The Mangaluru City Corporation will take up development works worth Rs. 121 crore, covering widening of traffic junctions and construction of roadside drains and footpaths, this year, according to Mayor Kavita Sanil.

Addressing presspersons on Friday, she said that bids have been invited to build footpaths and drains in 57 places and widen 20 traffic junctions.

The Mayor appealed to people in the city to spare their land for those works under the provision of transfer of development rights (TDR) which has been made attractive now by the government.

Don't worry Mayor Madam. People already know that footpath means parking place on the government land & on the drains covered by delicate slabs. They get this in exchange for a small piece of land spared by them and they will readily agree for it.

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The Mayor said that no commercial complex or shops could reserve parking area on the road as it belonged to all and not only to its customers.

And MCC election is nearing. And people vote for parties which allow usage of footpath for parking vehicles free of cost. All freebie politics!