Panama: Bureaucracy Delaying Drug RegistrationsPharmaceutical companies claim they have limited participation in tenders because of the slowness with which the Ministry of Health grants permits for importing medicines and medical supplies.Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Although the Ministry of Health has tried to solve the problem by providing temporary special permits so that pharmacies can keep distributing certain medications, industry representatives believe that this should not be the solution to the central problem, which is the slowness with which the Directorate of Pharmacy and Drugs reviews requests for renovations and new sanitary import permits.At the moment "...At least 71 products, including medicines and hospital supplies, have expired health permits." Source: Prensa.com ¿Busca soluciones de inteligencia comercial para su empresa?Panama: Bureaucracy Holding Up Health RegistrationsAugust 2016 It can take up to 2 years to obtain approval in the health registration process to import a food or pharmaceutical product produced abroad. Nicaragua: State Bureaucracy Hampering BusinessMay 2016 Administrative problems at the Institute for the Protection of Animal and Plant Health have delayed visits by foreign inspectors to processed meat plants. Panama: Delays in Processing for ImportsMarch 2015 Complaints have been made that 70 pre-statements have not been processed, delaying the customs clearance of raw materials and others such as beauty products because of delays in health and safety procedures. Red Tape Suffers Severe Blow in Costa RicaMay 2014 The healthy resistance of companies against abuses of bureaucracy, has generated an unusual and also healthy reaction from the new authorities who are quickly adopting decisions which reduce paperwork.
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