Laboratorios Paill has started the brand certification process in the Costa Rican market, and plans to start exporting its products next year.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
The manufacturer of oral, injectable and ophthalmological drugs already exports its products to neighboring countries such as Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras, and plans to start selling them in Costa Rica from 2018.
Rafael Cárdenas, commercial director of the company, told Elmundo.sv that"...'Some brands have already been registered and others are in process.By 2018, the idea is to have a presence in this market. It is well advanced. Some preliminary agreements have even been made with some of the representatives that our line will have."
"...The executive revealed that the company, which was founded on 100% Salvadoran capital, is also considering entering into "other countries, in which concerns have been raised about representation of our products, such as Ecuador, the Caribbean area and the United States."
In Guatemala, the Ministry of Health will delay for six months, the entry into force of the increase in the cost of procedures such as the issuance of licenses and health records, necessary to market food and medicines.
On December 1, 2020, by means of Governmental Agreement 179-2020, the new fees for the services of procedures of licenses, registrations and other processes for medicines, laboratories, pharmaceuticals, food products and others came into effect.
The business sector in Guatemala is anticipating an increase in the prices of food and medicines, due to the government's decision to raise the cost of procedures such as the issuance of licenses and health registrations, required to market these products.
By means of Government Agreement 179-2020, which entered into force on December 1, 2020, new fees were imposed for the services of procedures for licenses, registrations and other processes for medicines, laboratories, pharmaceuticals, food products and others.
Pharmaceutical 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.
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."
Six thousand products, including medicines, raw materials and those from the food industry are waiting to get new health registrations or renewals.
Although in the last two years there has been an improvement in registration times, at the moment it takes about a year to register a new medication, said Rodrigo Salas, president of the Costa Rican Association of Health Registrars (Asocores).
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