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{{Infobox company<br />
| name = Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices<br />
| foundation = {{start date and age|1957}}<br />
| location_city = New Delhi<br />
| location_country = India<br />
| industry = Healthcare<br />
| homepage = {{URL|https://hmdhealthcare.com}}<br />
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'''Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices''' is one of the major world firms manufacturing [[medical syringe]]s and one of the few producing a special type of syringe suitable for making efficient use of the [[Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine]].<ref name=nyt>{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Karan Deep |title=The World Needs Syringes. He Jumped In to Make 5,900 Per Minute. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/technology/covid-vaccine-syringes-factory.html |access-date=21 March 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=5 March 2021 |archive-date=21 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321132141/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/technology/covid-vaccine-syringes-factory.html |url-status=live }} (updated 6 March 2021)</ref><br />
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The [[New Delhi]] factories have been producing 2.5 billion syringes a year, increasing their capacity because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic|coronavirus pandemic]]. Two thirds of the capacity is for the market in India but there is global demand, increased by stockpiling, from the US and Europe where investment focused on the vaccine development rather than syringe manufacture. The [[United Nations]] is also being supplied for the [[COVAX]] programme.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Verma |first1=Anshul |title=The Indian factory making 6,000 syringes a minute |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-india-56456232 |access-date=21 March 2021 |work=BBC News |date=21 March 2021 |archive-date=21 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321132159/https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-india-56456232 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=nyt /> Before the pandemic, global production was about 16 billion syringes per annum but only 5 to 10 percent were used for vaccination and immunisation. Now 8 to 10 billion vaccination syringes are required.<ref name=nyt /><br />
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To make best use of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine a dose no larger than 0.3 [[millilitre]]s is required which allows six or even seven doses to be extracted from each [[vial]]. The device must also be a [[low dead space syringe]] so scarcely anything is left in the syringe after injection and the syringe itself must break after use so that there is no possibility of repeated use spreading infection.<ref name=nyt /> For this reason Japan ordered 15 million syringes at the beginning of 2021 and deliveries started within a month.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dasgupta |first1=Debarshi |title=Indian firms ramp up syringe, vial production to meet global demand amid Covid-19 vaccine roll-outs |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indian-syringe-and-vial-manufacturers-ramp-up-production-to-meet-global-demand |access-date=21 March 2021 |work=The Straits Times |date=21 March 2021 |archive-date=21 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321132110/https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indian-syringe-and-vial-manufacturers-ramp-up-production-to-meet-global-demand |url-status=live }}</ref><br />
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Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices was established in 1957<ref>{{cite web |title=About HMD |url=https://hmdhealthcare.com/about-hmd/ |website=Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd. |access-date=21 March 2021 |archive-date=21 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321132148/https://hmdhealthcare.com/about-hmd/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and is a family run business. In 1995 new machines were required for an increase in production and so private capital was needed. The latest ramping up could be achieved very quickly because no further investment was required.<ref name=nyt /><br />
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