Agencia Farmaceutica S.A., Corporacion Impa Doel S.A., Hispomedica SRL and Cefa Central Farmaceutica are among the companies that won contracts last year to supply medicines and pharmaceutical products to public health institutions in the region.
An analysis by CentralAmericaData's Business Intelligence department provides interesting data on the companies that in 2020 were awarded contracts to supply pharmaceutical products and medical supplies to the different Ministries of Health and Social Security entities in Central American countries and the Dominican Republic.
Because in this context of new commercial reality the sales of alcohol, fertilizers, soaps, detergents and chemical and pharmaceutical products have increased, the productive activity of the Central American industrial sector has been dynamized.
According to figures from the Bank of Guatemala, during the III Quarter of 2020 the Guatemalan Gross Domestic Product reported -2% year-on-year variation, a behavior that contrasts with the evolution of the manufacturing industry, which for the period in question registered a 3% increase in its production.
Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Guatemala are the Central American markets that during the first half of 2020 and in year-on-year terms, increased their imports of pharmaceutical products.
Figures from the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption="Click to interact with graphic"]
In the last few weeks in Central American countries the volume of searches and conversations on the Internet associated with pharmacies began to decrease, a downward trend that continued until the first days of November.
Through a system that monitors in real time the changes in the interests and preferences of consumers in Central American countries, developed by CentralAmericaData, it is possible to project short and long term demand trends, for the different products, sectors and markets that operate in the region.
The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (Costa Rican Social Security Fund) is tendering the supply of interferon beta 1-A of recombinant DNA origin, under the delivery-on-demand modality.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2020LN-000033-5101:
From January to July 2020, purchases of pharmaceutical products made by Central American countries from Mexican companies totaled $174 million, 7% more than what was reported for the same period in 2019.
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The Costa Rican Social Security Fund tenders the supply under the modality of delivery on demand of 10 mg hyoscine butylbromide, in its presentation of coated tablets.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2020ME-000070-5101:
"For this tender it is estimated that 380,000 units of the medicine tendered must be supplied.
From January to March 2020, pharmaceutical product imports in Central America totaled $825 million, with Costa Rica and Guatemala being the markets where purchases increased the most.
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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.
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"]
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.
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.
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