The Social Security bids the ultrasonography services for patients of the institution's peripheral units in Zone 11, Zone 5 and the Outpatient Disease Consultation Unit.
Guatemala Government Purchase 12043125:
"Bidders interested in providing Ultrasonography services (1. Conventional 2. Color Doppler 3. Conventional Gyneco-Obstetric Doppler 4. Special) for patients of the Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social -IGSS-, must have fixed or portable Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound equipment with date of manufacture not older than 6 years, black and white, for the studies that do not need color doppler and with color doppler application and pulsed with software for third and fourth dimension for the studies that apply.
Paitilla Hospital, located on 53rd Street in Panama City, is a point that is 15 minutes away by car, and has a potential market of 380 thousand consumers, of which 13% are interested in health care issues.
Using the Geomarketing solutions we have developed for our clients, CentralAmericaData's Trade Intelligence team analyzed the environment of some of the main hospital locations in Central America. Below is an extract of the study's findings.
In the case of Costa Rica, a potential for internationalization has been identified in five medical service specialties: orthopedics, fertility, oncology, ophthalmology and bariatric surgery.
A study carried out by the Promotora de Comercio Exterior (Procomer) states that "On a general level of context, it was determined that in all of them (with the exception of fertility) there is evidence of experience in the care of international patients (at least in one procedure)."
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation offered a $250 million quota for companies in the country to invest in health sector projects.
Directors of the International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) were the ones who reported last May 11 the existence of these financial resources. The exclusivity of these $250 million for companies in the health sector is due to the current health emergency situation, which derives from the outbreak of covid-19.
The Ministry of Health of Guatemala tenders the service of 18 thousand complete hemodialysis procedures for the department of nephrology, San Juan de Dios General Hospital.
Guatemala Government Purchase 10819541:
"Twelve hemodialysis machines must be provided to perform the procedures. Proposals for reconstructed machines or goods corresponding to discontinued or to be discontinued balances will not be accepted.
The Cardiovascular Surgery Unit of Guatemala tenders the service of analyzing machines to measure arterial gases, electrolytes and metabolites in blood.
Guatemala Government Purchase 9356215:
"Services include maintenance and repair of machines at no cost to the Guatemalan Cardiovascular Surgery Unit (UNICAR) and 26,297 laboratory test results.
UNICAR will pay the winning tenderer only the value of each of the tests processed and reported to satisfaction. The supplier must carry the inputs and install them each time it is necessary in any of the analyzers. UNICAR does not have a place to store reagents, cartridges or solutions of any kind, nor does it have personnel to carry out the change of any necessary input.
CRCB-PACS Latam is Nicaraguan company offering PACS Solutions for the visualization and manipulation of radiological images from X-rays, CTs, MRIs, mammographs, etc.
Organization that operates in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Central America
Phone: (505) 83346335
Medical products and services, and pharmaceutical and technological hospital equipment, and will be exhibited from September 23 to 24 in the Atlapa Convention Center.
From a statement issued by the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Panama (CCIAP):
Panama, September 21, 2016.The Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Panama (CCIAP), with support from the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Social Security Department (CSS) is organizing EXPOMÉDICA, "Exhibition on Medical Health, Beauty, Nutrition, Sports & Wellness" on September 23 and 24 in the Atlapa Convention Center, to promote medical services, and products for health, beauty and healthy lifestyles.
An environmental impact study has been presented to build a hospital consisting of five buildings in the municipality of Santa Catarina Pinula, department of Guatemala.
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala in March 2016 by Olga Marina Cabrera Ruiz de Contreras, indicates that the development will be called "Vitta Center" and will be located at Kilometer 7.5 at the end of Boulevard Los Proceres, in the municipality of Santa Catarina Pinula, department of Guatemala.
The rise of health insurance and health tourism are part of the reasons behind the growth in the construction of buildings for medical offices and clinics.
Elperiodico.com.gt reports that to date there are four noteworthy projects which include construction of buildings aimed at the medical sector. "Phase two of the Multimedica building in Zone 15, three buildings in Zone 9 and the Vitta Medical Center complex, on the road to El Salvador."
The Guatemalan Social Security Institute is putting out to tender radiology services and diagnostic images at the Jalapa site and diagnostic images at the site in Villa Canales.
Guatemala Government Purchase 4322800:
"Services of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging of Patients of the Guatemalan Institute of Social Security IGSS, Department of Jalapa.
A growing segment of the population is starting to gain weight as a group of consumers of increasingly specialized high-cost services.
In Costa Rica the evolution of the population pyramid is starting to resemble that of developed countries, and shows a sustained increase in inhabitants in the higher age range, a process which is expected to take the number of old age people in 2050 to more than one million.
The Guatemalan Institute of Social Security is putting out to tender services of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), Clinical Laboratory, Ophthalmology and Dentistry for patients at various units.
Guatemala Government Purchase 3892662:
"540 endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) services with or without papillotomy plus extraction Calculation for General Surgery on Patients at the IGSS General Disease Hospital ."
The Guatemalan Social Security Institute is putting out to tender hemodialysis services for patients at the Nephrology Disease Outpatient Units in the Departments of Izabal, Zacapa and Chiquimula.
Guatemala Government Purchase 3783928:
"Hemodialysis Services for Patients at Nephrology Disorders Outpatient Units of the IGSS in Departments of Izabal, Zacapa and Chiquimula."
In Guatemala an award has been made to Medicina Corporativa S.A. and Medicina Corporativa de Diálisis S.A. of contracts to supply 241,392 hemodialysis services in different departments.
The Guatemalan Social Security Institute also received offers from Sugerencias Médicas S.A. for $3.1 million, Clínica Médica Renal Emanuel for $9.6 million, Corporación Men-Del for $2.3 million and finally an offer from a natural person, Manuel Salazar, for $9.5 million.