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The industrial, regulatory and institutional capabilities required for countries to shape, supply and sustain their own diagnostic futures.
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Published on Linkedin on April 5, 2026 A simple blood count is not a glamorous, high-tech, innovation-driven precision medicine, AI-powered solution. It is not the next shiny thing that makes investors and bureaucrats alike very excited. Yet every hospital in the Gulf runs hundreds, maybe thousands of them every day. Haematology panels, biochemistry screens, urine…
Read →A Blackout, Toilet Paper, and GCC Diagnostics How the Gulf exports the raw material for molecular medicine, and imports every finished piece of it The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has invested heavily in genomics, cancer care, and national screening programmes, but the region’s diagnostics manufacturing base remains thin. This essay argues that single-use laboratory plasticware…
Read →A few years ago, as I was exploring relocating my company to a Gulf country, I sat with the innovation lead of a regional development programme. He was visibly excited as he described how a major diagnostics multinational had committed to building a presence in his country: investment, jobs, a regional hub. The whole language…
Read →As the Strait of Hormuz crisis intensifies and persists, major container lines have suspended or rerouted Gulf calls around the Cape of Good Hope, adding ten to fourteen days to deliveries of medical devices, consumables, and diagnostic inputs. Freight and insurance costs spiked. Airspace restrictions compounded the disruption: medical and humanitarian supplies including IV fluids,…
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