Medical device sector to become $billion in 5 years The Health Minister said that the current 17 billion dollars (about 90 in the next five years in the medical device sector ) thousand crore rupees) to billion dollars. As such, it is expected that this policy will meet the public health objectives of access, affordability, quality and innovation. He said that 90 percent of medical equipment is imported in the country. In this situation, the need was felt to make an all-out effort to make medical equipment in the country itself, to meet the domestic requirement and also to export it.