Following are some key facts and figures concerning surgical sector of Pakistan:

• The world market for Surgical Instruments is over US $ 30 (B).
• Pakistan’s exports currently stands at US$250 Million (2008-09).
  (The Sector has shown growth of about 34% as compared to preceding year’s exports of US$191Million)
• The total Capital Investment in the Surgical Industry is estimated at Pak Rs.18 Billion.
• There are about 900 to1000 active small and medium Surgical Units with labor force ranging from (10-500).
• The number of workers in the Surgical Industry is about 150,000.
• The industry manufactures about 100 Million instruments annually.
• We are manufacturing two types of Surgical Instruments:
  a) Disposable instruments, which constitutes 60% of our exports.
  b) Reusable instruments, which is 40% of our exports.
• Following Countries are the Top Ten buyers of our instruments(FY2006-07):

                       United States               24%
                       Germany                       15%
                       United Kingdom          10% 
                       France                           4.82%
                       Italy                                 4.45%
                       UAE                                3.60%
                       Japan                             2.35%
                      Brazil                               2.24%
                      Mexico                            2.22%
                      Russian Federation    1.90%