Education in Biomedical Enginerring in the Republic of Moldova

Abstract

The global medical devices industry with a turnover of more than 226 billion dollars in 2011 will reach a business volume of over 434 billion dollars with a growth rate of 7.1% per year in 2017: it is one of the few areas that it is expected to increase continuously for long while. The medical device industry includes 13,600 registered producers, about 10,000 generic devices and over 500,000 products and brands. About 50% of all treatment and diagnostic methods used today did not exist 10 years ago.