Johnson and Johnson's ASR XL hip implant | Patrick Fallon/Bloomberg

New Delhi: Come April 2020, the sale, manufacture and import of eight more types of critical medical devices will be regulated by the government to check the supply of faulty equipment.

Implantable medical devices like hip and knee implants, CT scan equipment, MRI equipment, defibrillators, dialysis machines, PET equipment, X-Ray machines and bone marrow cell separators will now be listed as 'drugs' under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, which regulates the manufacture and sales of drugs across India.