The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams’ (TTD) Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have achieved significant progress in the third round of deliberations pertaining to manufacture and use of biomedical implants.
The meeting, attended by Scientific Adviser to Raksha Mantri G. Satheesh Reddy (who earlier headed the DRDO) and SVIMS Director and Vice-Chancellor B. Vengamma here on Saturday, discussed the arrangement being worked out with the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), functioning under the aegis of the DRDO, towards this task, and the role of the Defence Bio-Engineering and Electro Medical Laboratory (DEBEL) in handling state-of-the-art life support systems and biomedical devices.
