New Delhi: A next-generation surgical robot system launched in India this month by a Gujarat-based medical device maker is in the eye of a storm, with a rival firm complaining to the drug regulator that it is “Made in China” but being passed off as India-made.

Gurugram-based indigenous surgical robot maker SS Innovations (SSI), which launched the first India-made surgical robot in 2022, wrote to the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) on Wednesday, accusing Gujarat-based Merai Newage of importing a fully manufactured surgical robotic system, KANGDUO 2000, from China.

SS Innovations, in a letter to the CDSCO, a copy of which is with ThePrint, said that the company had merely re-labelled and repackaged it under a different brand name—Mizzo Endo 4000—without any local manuf

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