Credit: FEDIL
On Monday 29 January 2024, eleven companies active in the "Health” and “Life Sciences” sector belonging to FEDIL affixed their signature to the statutes constituting the sectoral federation FEDIL Health Corporations.
The founding members who invite other companies in the sector to join this initiative are B Medical Systems, BIONEXT Lab, Flen Health, Hospilux, Hunma Agritech, House of BioHealth and HE:AL Campus, Laboratoire Ketterthill, Laboratoires Réunis, Molecular Plasma Group, Probiotic Group and Pfizer Luxembourg.
The board of directors is composed, for a term of three years, of Philippe Sollie, President, Nicolas Henckes, Vice-President, Jean-Paul Scheuren, Erica Monfardini and Jean Parente, Directors.
The project to create this federation was announced during Luxembourg Healthcare Week in September 2023. On this occasion, the mission statement, presenting the vision and objectives of the future sectoral federation, had already been unveiled.
As part of the country's economic diversification strategy, successive governments have aimed, for many years, to make the health sector one of the pillars of the Luxembourg economy. Following a series of significant initiatives and investments to lay the necessary foundations, a real “health industry” is today present and active on the national territory, FEDIL noted. Considering that private players contribute a significant part to the development of the health sector, FEDIL Health Corporations was born from the desire to bring together private companies in the Health and Life Sciences sector in Luxembourg.
The newly created federation aims to promote activities and increase the visibility of private players in the sector. Additionally, it aims to act as a representative interlocutor vis-à-vis public authorities, advocating a vision of health centred on the patient and innovation. FEDIL Health Corporations also aims to ensure the mutually beneficial coexistence between the private and public sectors to promote quality medicine. Another declared objective is the international promotion of the sector as well as accelerating initiatives and digitalisation projects in the sector, particularly concerning health data.
FEDIL added that the federation is now the exchange platform for all questions and issues specific to the private health sector: national and European legislative and regulatory initiatives, innovation, financing instruments and investment aid, taxation, recruitment and promotion of professions etc. are essential themes to the sector’s dynamism.
On the sidelines of the federation’s creation, the FEDIL companies carrying the project sent a note on the support of the health sector’s development in Luxembourg in November 2023, to the trainer of the new government presenting the perspectives of private sector companies Health and Life Sciences. A first step by FEDIL Health Corporations will now consist of communicating with the competent ministries and contributing to the rapid and effective implementation of actions to “make Luxembourg a true 'Health Hub'”, as announced in the Agreement coalition.
