Personal protective equipment (PPE) includes a range of items designed to protect the person wearing them against threats to health or safety. Right now, they are in high demand everywhere as the coronavirus pandemic mutates and returns in different locations around the world. Here’s a handy checklist you can use when you’re arranging orders of […]
Need to know: sourcing PPE & medical supplies
As global supply chains hit the bottleneck amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the gap between supply and demand of personal protective equipment or PPE, medical devices and testing kits is widening at an accelerating rate. Buyers are racing to find surgical masks, face shields, goggles, gloves, body suits, thermometers, respirators, and laboratory and ICU equipment fast […]
Non-tech medical & healthcare trends
Top non-tech medical & healthcare trends at the Global Sources Online Show Just two years ago, the global healthcare market reached a value of nearly $8,452 billion. In fact, it has shown a compound annual growth rate of 7.3% since 2014 and is projected to keep climbing at least until 2022. By then, the industry […]
FREE e-book: Who Holds the Procurement Power? Sourcing PPEs & medical devices in the time of pandemic
As the world grapples to address the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and global supply chains hit bottleneck, the gap between supply of and demand for medical devices, testing kits and personal protective equipment (PPE) ranging from surgical masks, to respirators, face shields, goggles, gloves and body suits are widening at an accelerating rate. […]