“After I went back to China, I found that most hospitals do not have endoscopes. At that time, my grandmother got lung cancer and had to queue up and register in major cities. It took a long time to make an appointment for examination. The time lost between the arrival and departure was relatively long, and it was painful for the patient。

Realizing this problem, I felt that China has great potential in the direction of single-use endoscopes, and China is also in urgent need of such a device.。”

Zhenhua Zhou, endoscopy expert, postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University, once worked as R&D director at Richard Wolf in Germany, and is now Chairman of Vathin Medical。

Due to the use of reusable endoscopes in China, this equipment is expensive and easily cross-infection if not properly sterilized during practical applications. To meet the clinical needs of comfort, safety, small and fine products, it is necessary to achieve high quality and the price of disposable consumables. How to turn endoscopes into disposable consumables became the ideal of Vathin Medical at the beginning of its entrepreneurial journey. The design and development of single-use endoscopes that are easily popularized require the subversion and transcendence of reusable endoscopes manufacturing technology。

Through the independent research and development of key components and the automation of production lines, Vathin Medical can control product quality in the entire process and reduce production costs. Vathin has realized the concept of single-use endoscopic consumables through the entire industry chain and the automation of production control in the whole process, which also makes primary medical care more widely available and in line with urban standards。

Only those who innovate can make progress, grow stronger. In order to continuously provide technological impetus for single-use endoscopes, Zhou Zhenhua led Vathin Medical to make bold layouts. In 2021, it successfully acquired the 126-year-old endoscope company MGB in Germany. Through strategic cooperation with established German companies and domestic innovation platforms of world giants, its aim to expand the technological boundaries of doctors through product innovation. Going out and bringing in, Vathin Medical is also constantly seeking high-quality platforms to achieve strong alliances in the development of new products。

“Making a good product that can save many lives is our original intention and our sense of achievement。”

Vathin Medical believes that by simplifying product innovation and technological breakthroughs to shorten the lengthy commercialization cycle, creating value that benefits both doctors and the public, the world will become a better place. In the future, Vathin will always shoulder the mission of continuous innovation, smooth diagnosis and treatment, and patient reassurance。