Why Is Sterilization Mandated upon Healthcare Facilities?

Posted by Pramod Arya on March 14th, 2022

Cases of healthcare associated infections (HAIs) are rising globally, on account of unsterilized devices or contaminated environment. HAIs are acquired in various healthcare facilities like clinics, hospitals, and ambulatory service centers, and are the most frequent adverse outcomes in healthcare delivery. Escalating frequency and number of infections lead to high mortality and huge financial losses for all stakeholders of the healthcare system. According to the World Health Organization, nearly 10 out of 100 hospitalized patients in developing nations and 7 out of 100 in developed economies have chances of acquiring at least one HAI.

Moreover, factors such as rising number of surgeries, increasing shift toward minimally invasive surgical procedures, growing elderly population, and expanding pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry in Asian countries, will fuel the sterilization technology market growth at a CAGR of 9.0% during the forecast period (2017–2023).

The end users in the sterilization technology market like pharmaceutical and biotechnology and medical device industries use these ebeam sterilization process to sterilize medical devices and equipment. This process uses high-energy electrons as a source of radiation and has emerged as one of the leading technologies for sterilizing low-density medical devices. The ebeam process offers benefits such as lesser product degradation and shorter processing time in comparison to other radiation sterilization methods like gamma sterilization and X-ray sterilization. These factors boost the demand for sterilization technologies.

Furthermore, the sterilization technologies find wide application in hospitals, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academic and research organizations, medical devices companies, and ambulatory surgical centers and clinics. These end users deploy these technologies in the form of devices, services, and consumables. In coming years, these sectors are expected to generate high demand for sterilization validation services and contract sterilization services.

Moreover, pharmaceutical and biotechnology production units are demanding large quantities of heat sterilizers to sterilize products that are medicinal in nature, moisture sensitive, and cannot be sterilized with steam.

Get More details Sterilization Technology Market Business Opportunities