• 2024-09-17 05:26:27

The National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and National Health Commission (NHC) have issued guidelines for the temporary importation of urgently needed medical devices in clinical settings. The regulation streamlines import processes while ensuring compliance with safety standards, allowing medical institutions to quickly access essential, unregistered devices. It aligns with NMPA Orders No. 47 and 48, emphasizing patient safety and timely access to critical medical equipment.

• 2024-04-03 09:46:01

The Medical Device Authority (MDA) published new Guidance Document, on "MEDICAL DEVICE FOR PERSONAL USE", on January 30, 2024. This document serves as guidance for individuals who intend to bring any medical devices into Malaysia (referred as "import") for the purpose of personal use.
This guidance document specifies the requirements for the importation of personal use medical devices. This document applies to all home use medical devices that fall within the definition of a medical device, as defined in MDA/GD/0006: Definition of Medical Device, including in vitro diagnostic (IVD) medical devices. Not all medical device can fall under the category of personal use medical device.

• 2021-08-26 11:57:56

The MDA has published new guidelines for temporary conditional approval for the COVID-19 self-test kit (COVID-19 RTK), which explains the application procedure and requirements that need to be followed by the establishment.

• 2021-08-02 06:20:55

Consistent with the new guidance published in February 2021 governing the risk- classification, technical documentation requirements, fee schedule and transition plan for medical device registration, respectively announced for medical device manufacturing and importation exemption for certain medical under Medical Device Act 2008 Section 27 (1). The announcement aims to balance medical device distribution brought about by the significant changes in regulation.

• 2021-08-02 06:16:13

Thai FDA progressively issues series of guidelines to enhance the new medical device act. This month will be focusing on the latest requirement on medical device manufacturing, importation, and distribution records or report preparation.

• 2020-12-24 10:59:21

In the past Thai FDA had perpetually notified manufacturers / importer / distributors regarding the acute adverse effect of powdered surgical gloves to end-users or patients. Now, the Thai FDA has officially announced the prohibition of manufacturing, importation or sale of powdered surgical gloves, to ensure safety control to end-users or patients and prevention of adverse effect from the use of powdered surgical gloves.

• 2020-06-16 08:03:29

PFDA released updated guidelines for the importers and manufacturers of PPEs, ventilators, and respirators in relation to the COVID-19 situation.

• 2020-07-31 10:23:22

National Committee on Prevention and Solution for AIDS concerned the important of individual infected situation. Encouragement of an action by increasing access Self-diagnosis of HIV infection which will be an essential key that will lead to the end of the AIDS problem.

• 2020-02-12 15:00:06

Slight revision on guidance documents about Singapore Standards and Medical devices for exhibition were added last July 2018.

• 2020-02-14 14:56:10

Fast-growing the medical device market is by reading the domestic medical device manufacturing sector growth. In first-half of 2017, it grows 12.6% comparing to 2016 with total revenue at 142 billion RMB, according to Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China