Hon’ble Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan attended as chief guest of the Product Demonstration of Stent Retriever and Awareness Program on Acute Ischemic Stroke organized by S3V Vascular Technologies Limited, Hyderabad at Raj Bhavan, Hyderabad today.

This stent retriever is an indigenous product manufactured by M/s. S3V Vascular Technologies Limited a start-up company with the aim of bringing the cost of a stent retriever to Rs. 50,000- to make it even more affordable to all. Presently these are imported at a cost of around Rs. 4,00,000/-.

Speaking on the occasion, the Hon’ble Governor appreciated the efforts of M/s. S3V Vascular Technologies Limited for making these valuable medical intervening devices indigenously at an affordable cost to improve healthcare in India. It is in fact the vision of the Hon’ble Prime Minister through Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan to make India self-reliant in each and every field so that India can play a bigger and more important part in the global economy.

She thanked the Hon’ble Prime Minister for bringing in policies that are efficient, competitive and resilient for making indigenous manufacturing more easy and wished that more and more such start-up companies should come up in the healthcare sector to make it economical and affordable to all.  

In this programme, Dr. Balaram Bhargava, Former Director General, ICMR and Head Cordio Thorosis, AIIMS, New Delhi, Dr. Mathew Cherian, Interventional Radiologist, Coimbatore, Sri M.B. Gowtama and Dr. Vijay Gopal, Directors of S3V Vascular Technologies Limited participated in the Programme