About Costa Rica
Why Costa Rica?
State-Of-The-Art medical technology
- Costa Rica offers domestic and foreign patients the latest medical technology available on the market because of the synergy that exists between the country’s healthcare and growing medical devices industries.
- Costa Rica’s medical devices industry began to truly develop in 1987, when Baxter Healthcare established a manufacturing operation in the country.
- Today, there are 25 medical devices companies in Costa Rica including world leaders Hospira, Boston Scientific, Cytyc-Hologic, Arthrocare, Allergan, and Coloplast.
- Costa Rica’s main strength is its human and intellectual capital.
- The medical devices industry employs 6,300 people.
- The medical devices industry is the 4th largest exporting industry in Costa Rica; with exports having grown 3 times faster than the rest of free trade zone exports. In 2007, exports reached the US$766 million and attracted US$150 million in FDI.
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