Right after a punishing 6-week, 8-country business trip to the EU to meet people and organisations, it was right back in Asia, where two very different events demonstrated Access-2-Healthcare’s range in supporting various areas of the Healthcare ecosystem. While we usually do not attend MEDICA,, the month of October to November had numerous events in Healthcare, and a couple of years of Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet has driven many people to meet in these in-person events.
One event, the MedLab Asia & Asia Health 2022 – Bangkok, Thailand (live in-person edition) brought the latest laboratory products and technologies to the South Asian market and featured them at IMPACT Exhibition Centre between 19 – 21 October 2022. Retailers, suppliers, distributors and healthcare professionals alike met with their peers and clients to exhibit and browse a wide range of medical instruments, devices and services. The trade fair had more than 300+ booths, with numerous valuable insights that are shaping the growing market, and meetings with exhibitors, influencers and specialised press, product pavilions and in-person demos. Relatively, it is a small trade fair, but we like it because there’s time to talk, engage and set the framework for potential partnerships. There were some trade enterprises present as well, especially from the EU, who is more willing to explore the Asia Pacific markets of late. The focus for this year for myself, is size, or lack thereof: small analysers, small footprint ones, easy-to-manage consumables. There were some great items from the non-IVD sector too.