Excellent Turnout at Medical Fair Thailand 2009

High calibre attendance at a top notch show MEDICAL FAIR THAILAND 2009 ended on a high note on 18 September 2009 with excellent results. This highly influential medical and healthcare exhibition played host to 258 exhibiting companies from 30 countries including national pavilions and groups from Austria, Belgium, China, Germany, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and United Kingdom. Opened on 16 September 2009 by Thailand's Deputy Minister of Public Health, H.E. Manit Nopamornbodee who commented, "The development in the areas of medical science and technology has been rampant over the past twenty years. The biennially held MEDICAL FAIR THAILAND is a good forum for both the public and private healthcare sectors to come together to exchange know-how and to keep abreast of new technological improvements in the areas of in- and out-patient care." Underscoring its role as the key industry event for the medical and health care industries of Southeast Asia, the exhibition attracted more than 3,600 visitors from 54 countries. Visitors were treated to a wide array of breakthrough innovations, a wealth of technology highlights, products, and services for the medical and health care sectors. Held biennially in Bangkok, MEDICAL FAIR THAILAND has received enthusiastic response from all involved in the medical and health care sectors since its inception in 2003. With its comprehensive product range and outstanding expertise, it is the most important meeting point for manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and decision makers, procurers, practitioners and relevant health care authorities and experts from the region. Further endorsement of MEDICAL FAIR THAILAND is evidenced by the strong support of Thailand's Ministry of Public Health and leading health care associations such as the Private Hospital Association, Thai Rehabilitation Medicine Association, Thai Medical Device Technology Industry Association, Government Pharmaceutical Organization, The Nurses' Association of Thailand, The Pharmaceutical Association of Thailand Under Royal Patronage and the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau. "About 90 percent of the exhibiting companies came from overseas and this underscores the confidence of both the international and regional communities in the Southeast Asian health care market, " commented Gernot Ringling, Managing Director of show organizer ?Messe Duesseldorf Asia. He added," MEDICAL FAIR THAILAND will continue to remain committed to the upbeat progression of health care industry and will provide the best platform for the latest in medical care solutions, technologies and equipment." Participating companies are the best judge of MEDICAL FAIR THAILAND's success: "The medical and health care sector in Thailand definitely has the potential to develop further especially as the location of MEDICAL FAIR THAILAND. We have met promising quality contacts and are very satisfied with our participation, especially with the possibility of business prospects in the region which we got through the show." --lfgang Binder, Export Management Asia/Pacific, Dlouhy GmbH "e managed to meet many good quality visitors as well as ecision makers at MEDICAL FAIR THAILAND that were interested in what we do. This resulted in a lot of good leads, prospects and contacts. We look forward to exhibiting at MEDICAL FAIR THAILAND gain." --rard Plessier, Managing Director, Siam Medical Leasing "hailand is a great location with great growth potential and MEDICAL FAIR THAILAND is a high-end show which introduces new technology, so we were able to meet a lot of regional visitors. The leads from MEDICAL FAIR THAILAND were of a better quality and we managed to touch base with more distributors and decision makers." --Robert J. Milsom, Marketing & Project Director, M.R.I. Co., Ltd. "As first time exhibitors, our aim atBalenciaga