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Translumina's foundation stone laying ceremony at AMTZ Vizag
Translumina to set up Asia’s largest heart valve manufacturing facility at AMTZ Vizag Translumina performed the foundation stone laying ceremony of Asia’s largest heart
valve
manufacturing
facility
at
Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone (AMTZ) in Vizag. “We plan to complete the facility by December 2022 with more than 100,000 square feet of manufacturing space with the
state-of-the-art
equipment
and
infrastructure,” said Punita Sharma Arora, Co-Founder, Translumina.
Dr Mohan’s Diabetes Specialties Centre opens centre in Siliguri Dr Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre has now launched its comprehensive care
Piramal Pharma to invest minority stake in Hydbased Yapan Bio Piramal Pharma announced an investment of Rs 101.77 crore in Hyderabad-based Yapan Bio augmenting the capabilities of its Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) business, Piramal Pharma Solutions (PPS). PPL holds a 27.78 per cent equity stake in the company as a result of this investment. Yapan Bio provides process development, scale-up, and cGMP compliant manufacturing of vaccines and biologics/bio-therapeutics, including high containment product classes (up to BSL-2+), recombinant vaccines, RNA/ DNA vaccines, gene therapies, monoclonal antibodies, therapeutic proteins, and other complex biologics. Yapan’s FY21 turnover was Rs 12.4 crore. The company has already earned revenues of Rs 11.8 crore for H1FY22 and is poised for fast growth in response to strong market demand.
centre for the people of North Bengal in Siliguri. The Chief Guest of the occasion was Dr GB Das, gynaecologist and Head of New Ramkrishna Seva Sadan and the Guest of Honour was Dr Rajesh Saini, CEO, Siliguri Greater Lions Eye Hospital in the presence of Dr Manodip Acharyya along with his team.
Medica with Rotary club launches Rotary Medica Wellness Card Medica Superspecialty Hospital in collaboration with Rotary District 3291 has launched the Rotary Medica Wellness
Card for Rotarian, Rotaract and RCC members of Rotary Club Kolkata. The wellness cards will have a special discount on treatment for members of Rotary club at Medica Superspecialty Hospital, Kolkata. There was also a health screening camp organised by the Rotary Club Kolkata and Medica Hospital at Rotary Sadan. Various tests including Random Blood Sugar, Blood Pressure, Height, Weight, Body Mass Index (BMI), Blood Grouping and Bone Mineral Density (BMD) were conducted. The occasion was graced by Prabir Chatterjee, District Governor of Rotary Club, Sinchana Bhattyacharya, District President of Rotary Club, Dr Saumitra Bharadwaj, President Medica Group of Hospitals, and Dr Vikas Kapoor, Vice Chairman, Group Director & Ortho Surgeon of Medica. This special initiative is supported by Rotary Club of Calcutta Endeavour.
Cipla acquires stake in Clean Max Auriga Power Cipla has acquired up to 33 per cent of partnership interest in Clean Max Auriga Power. This agreement is in line with the company’s commitment to enhance the share of renewable power sources in its operation and to comply with the regulatory requirement for being a captive user under electricity laws. Clean Max
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