Delhi Opens Medical Innovation Center at MAMC to Accelerate Digital Health &Medtech Innovation

The Medical Innovation Center will speed up work in digital health innovation, AI, robotics, biomedical engineering, and the design of medical devices.

Delhi's Health Minister, Pankaj Kumar Singh, has inaugurated the Medical Innovation Centre at Maulana Azad Medical College, a major expansion of the digital health and medical research capabilities of the city.

Set up under the National Mission on Cyber-Physical Systems, the Medical Innovation Center has been positioned as a facility that will strengthen work in diagnostics, integrated data systems, AI-led disease control, and affordable medtech development.

"This centre will help address multiple challenges through research, digital health innovation, and medical device development," he added.

The minister termed the establishment of the Medical Innovation Centre a milestone for public healthcare and a first-of-its-kind initiative in a government medical college.

He said the facility, set up under the leadership of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, reflects the national vision of technological self-reliance. “This Centre aligns with the Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Make in India’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’,” he noted.

The Medical Innovation Center is expected to speed up work in digital health innovation, AI, robotics, biomedical engineering, and design of medical devices, contributing to the creation of a "Delhi Model of Medical Innovation," said the minister.

The centre has been designed to enable positioning the capital as the "Health-Tech Capital of India" by enabling advances in vaccines, diagnostics and disease surveillance, he said.

He exhorted the medical community to expand the scope of the Medical Innovation Centre: "Doctors at MAMC should expand the scope of MIC rapidly and develop an ideal model that becomes an example for the entire country."

Concurrently with the inauguration, the minister has launched MedTechX, a three-day medical conference hosted on campus.

The launch was attended by senior officials, including MAMC Dean Dr Munisha Agarwal, MIC Director, Dr Savita Mishra, and LNJP Hospital Director, Dr B.L. Chaudhary, along with faculty members and students.

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