5 forbidden used medical device markets

by Brendon Nafziger, DOTmed News Associate Editor | September 09, 2010

Syria

The ruins of Palmyra.

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Unless you’re an expatriate doctor coming home with your own equipment, don’t expect to bring any used or refurbished medical goods into this Middle Eastern country. Among its estimated $13 billion in yearly imports, nary a dollar is spent on used medical goods. The country completely forbids their import, and only in the last decade has made an exception for Syrian doctors practicing abroad but returning home with their own equipment – and for use in their own clinics. For everyone else, the Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade stipulates that import licenses only go to “new equipment and not refurbished.”