The Costa Rican Social Security Fund is evaluating making an annual purchase of HIV drugs next year.
The aim of the authorities at the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) is to avoid the situation of shortages suffered almost two months ago, when they ran out of the drug Efavirenz.
In the next five years the Costa Rican Social Security Institution plans to invest about $1.8 billion in building new infrastructure and purchase of medical equipment.
The aim of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) is to start to reverse the significant backlog there is in terms of building infrastructure, due to the decline in investment registered with the entity from about 2010.
The World Bank will provide the Costa Rican Social Security Department with a loan to implement digital systems and financial management.
From a statement issued by the World Bank:
WASHINGTON, March 15, 2016 - The Executive Directors of the World Bank (WB) has approved a loan of $420 million in support of the Strategic Agenda for Strengthening Health Insurance of the Costa Rican Social Security Department (CCSS), with the aim of improving the availability and quality of health care and strengthening institutional efficiency.
Costa Rica is still increasing the volume of its purchases of seasonal influenza vaccines, and has confirmed that it will use those corresponding to the southern hemisphere.
The Costa Rican Social Security Department has announced it will buy one million influenza vaccines for 2016, aimed at use by minors, the elderly and health professionals providing direct care.
The Costa Rican Social Security Department is putting out to tender the construction of two health centers, one Ebais type 1 and one Ebais type 2 in the province of Heredia.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2015LN-000001-4403:
"Construction of Ebais Type 2 La Ribera and Ebais type 1 Escobal, Belen."
The date for receipt of bids is November 25, 2015.
An official report reveals that Costa Rican government officials get sick five times more than those in the private sector.
EDITORIAL
Data from the Central Evaluation Commission on Disabilities of the Costa Rican Social Security Department (CCSS) indicate that during 2014 the average number of days that each civil servant was incapacitated by illness was five times higher than the average number of days each private sector worker was absent from their duties due to illness.
The renovation of 120 anesthesia machines will be carried out in four stages and the first will be a purchase of 25 machines at a cost of $1.3 million.
The Costa Rican Social Security Department is changing 120 pieces of medical equipment in 13 hospitals. The replacement will be divided into four stages. In the first 25 machines will be purchased for a value of $1.3 million, the second includes the purchase of new equipment and is now in the stage of receipt of bids and the last is at the end of the tender process.
A $270 million loan awarded by the BCIE will enable the construction of new hospital facilities in San Jose, Guanacaste and Puntarenas.
From a press release issued by the Presidency of Costa Rica:
This morning (yesterday) the Government of the Republic signed an agreement with the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) which allows the construction of new hospital facilities, strengthening and increasing the capacity for attention of three national hospitals in the provinces of San José, Guanacaste and Puntarenas; in the latter place a new hospital will be built, since facilities were affected by the earthquake of 2012.
The Social Security Department is going to purchase anaesthesia machines, scanners and MRI machines between 2014 and 2018.
This was revealed in the data managed by Infrastructure Management and Technology of the Social Security Department (CCSS). The 120 anaesthesia machines will be purchased in 2014, while the scanners for hospitals Mexico, Calderon Guardia and San Juan de Dios will be acquired in 2017.
The Costa Rican Social Security Department (CCSS) is putting out a call for bids for the construction of a Health Area in the canton of Parrita, Puntarenas.
On a plot of land measuring 10,200 square meters, five modules to house outpatient services, a laboratory, a pharmacy, and administration and support teams will be built.
The resolution of the General Controller of the Republic, established that it should be CCSS which should initiate a process of competitive tendering.
The Costa Rican Social Security Institute (CCSS) has announced the construction of a Center for Integrated Health Care in Limon.
From the second half of this year, the CCSS will build a Center for Integral Health Care in the canton of Siquirres, Limon, for $23.56 million. The center should open its doors in early 2014.
"The chief executive of the institution, Ileana Balmaceda, said the aim with this new medical center is to provide care for the Caribbean population, strengthen services in the area and relieve the hospitals Tony Facio in Limon, Guapiles and Calderon Guardia in San Jose", reported laprensalibre.cr. "This will benefit about 90,000 people in the areas of Siquirres, Batan, Pocora and Matina," said Balmaceda.
The Costa Rican social services agency (CCSS in Spanish) is to invest in repairing and improving a hospital just west of the capital, San Jose.
After the regional government for Ciudad Colón, where the clinic is located, complained about the poor state of the hospital's facilities and the apparent lack of interest shown by CCSS, the agency (known locally as "La Caja") has announced that it will invest $11 million in improvement works.
The Social Insurance Institute (CCSS) will build a 5.300 square-meter health care center in Parrita.
Parrita’s health authority, Edgar Carrillo, detailed that CCSS is currently drafting the project's blueprints, and that construction could start on the second half of 2011.
“Additionally, a private company will build the first heliport to operate in a health area”, reported Prensa.com.
With an $85 million total investment, works at the Heredia Hospital complex are 73% completed.
The six buildings comprising the hospital complex are already built, and they will be equipped between April and May 2010.
"...to the moment we have complied with each of the milestones in the schedule, so it is expected that Edica Ltda, the company in charge of equipping the buildings, could deliver the complex to the Costa Rican Social Insurance Authority by April 2010", said construction chief Robert Sánchez Acuña, in an article in Prensalibre.cr.