The Fischel Nunciatura drugstore, located near La Sabana Park in San Jose, Costa Rica, is a sales point that is a 15-minute walk away and has a potential market of over 23,000 consumers, 11% of whom 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 locations of the drugstores in Central America. Below is an extract of the study's findings.
In this context of crisis, El Salvador's pharmaceutical sector is one of the few that managed to increase its exports in the first half of the year, and in some cases production plants have had to work double shifts to meet demand.
The manufacture of pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemicals and pharmaceutical botanicals was one of the few sectors that, from January to June 2020, registered a positive variation in the amount of its sales abroad, according to official data from the Central Reserve Bank.
Productos Roche, Drogueria e Importadora Alemana and Corporacion Industrial Farmaceutica are some of the companies that during the first six months of the year won contracts to provide medicines and pharmaceutical products to public health institutions in the region.
The "Interactive Public Procurement Information System" of CentralAmericaData's Trade Intelligence Unit provides interesting data on the companies that in the first half of 2020 were favored with contracts to provide pharmaceutical products and medical supplies to the various Ministries of Health and Social Security entities in the Central American countries.
From January to March 2020, purchases of pharmaceutical products made by Central American countries from companies in Mexico totaled $73 million, 2% more than reported in the same period in 2019.
Figures from the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption="Click to interact with graphic"]
In the complex scenario of health crisis, companies in the pharmaceutical sector in Guatemala are facing shortages of raw materials, mainly those imported from the U.S., Europe and China.
In the context of the covid-19 outbreak, the pharmaceutical industry has kept alive and according to businessmen in the sector, the country's laboratories maintain their operations at an average of 70%.
Agefinsa, Servicios Tecnicos Medicos, Macrotech Farmaceutica and J.I. Cohen are some of the companies that during the first quarter of the year won contracts to provide medicines and pharmaceutical products to public health institutions in the region.
The "Interactive Public Procurement Information System" of the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData provides interesting data on the companies that in the first quarter of 2020 were favored with contracts to provide pharmaceutical products and medical supplies to the various Ministries of Health and Social Security entities in the Central American countries.
The Ministry of Health of Panama tenders the supply, storage, transport and delivery of a total of 12,390 tablets of osimertinib 80 mg, film-coated tablet, orally.
Panama Government Purchase 2020-0-12-11-08-LP-016250:
"The term of this contract shall be eleven (11) months from the date of notification of the respective purchase order or endorsed contract through the Electronic Public Contracting System.
As a result of the Coronavirus emergency, the CABEI granted each of the Central American countries financial resources for the purchase of medicines and medical supplies.
The international organization reported that it granted non-reimbursable financial cooperation in the amount of up to $8,000,000 distributed in $1,000,000 to each Central American country, including Belize, to attend to the health emergency.
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund is tendering the supply of medicinal and industrial gases at the regional level, under the delivery-on-demand modality.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2020LN-000001-2299:
From January to September 2019, pharmaceutical product imports in Central America totaled $2.614 million, 8% more than in the same period in 2018, with El Salvador, Panama and Costa Rica being the markets where purchases increased the most.
Figures from the Trade Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption "Click to interact with graphics"]
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