Aceti Oxígeno, Infra de Honduras, Praxair and Oxi-Rent are some of the companies supplying medical oxygen and its equipment to public health institutions in the region.
Figures from the information system "Public Purchases in the Health Sector", developed by the Trade Intelligence area of CentralAmericaData, lists the companies that have been favored with contracts to provide pharmaceutical products and medical supplies, in tenders published between July 2017 and June 2018, by the different Ministries of Health and Social Security of Central American countries.
In Costa Rica, authorities announced that the procedures to be carried out by importers of medical equipment and supplies to apply for tax exemption will be reduced in ten days.
In Panama, tenders are submitted for the adaptation and supply of special systems for the magnetic resonance room building of the José Domingo de Obaldía Maternal and Child Hospital.
Panama Government Purchase 2018-0-12-0-04-LV-025678:
U.S. medical technology company Stryker announced the opening of a financial services center in the country, through which it will support its operations in the region.
From the statement of the Costa Rican Coalition of Development Initiatives:
San José, Costa Rica. November 5, 2018.Stryker, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, announced it will open an office in Costa Rica, as it creates a hub for finance activities and services.
The medical device manufacturer Precision Concepts Medical Technologies will invest $5 million in the construction and operation of a new plant in Costa Rica.
According to the Costa Rican Coalition of Development Initiatives (Cinde), the health sector company's investment will focus on the construction of a building and the implementation of state-of-the-art technology.
In El Salvador, companies in the pharmaceutical industry plan to achieve 5% growth in exports of their products this year.
A rebound in sales to Honduras and the opening of new markets is what is behind the projection of growth that the Association of Chemical-Pharmaceutical Manufacturers of El Salvador (INQUIFAR) has for this year.
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
In Costa Rica, the manufacturer of medical devices for continence and ostomy, Coloplast, has announced that it will be building a manufacturing plant in La Lima free zone, in Cartago.
In the first half of 2017, Central American countries imported $1.533 billion worth of pharmaceutical products, and imports from Germany grew by 11% compared to the same period in 2016.
Figures from the information system Pharmaceutical Products Market in Central America, compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption="Click to interact with the graphic"]
Through a trust with the Bank of Costa Rica, plans are underway to build 30 health areas, 22 financial branches and a storage center for supplies and medicines.
Among the projects that will be built with the resources to be administered by the Bank of Costa Rica through the trust is the William Allen hospital in Turrialba, whosetenderwas announced recently.
The multinational Hospira will be gradually closing manufacturing operations for infusion equipment in the Dominican Republic in order to transfer to facilities operating in Costa Rica.
The company told Nacion.com that"... after careful analysis of product volume and global manufacturing capabilities, we made the difficult decision to discontinue manufacturing operations in the Dominican Republic and transfer most of the installed plant operations to Costa Rica".
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