Acerca de Costa Rica

Why Costa Rica?

STATE-OF-THE-ART Medical Technology

• Costa Rica’s healthcare industry takes advantage of the sinergy with its growing medical devices industry and offers to national and foreign patients the latest medical technology on the market.
• The medical devices sector began its development in Costa Rica in 1987, when Baxter Healthcare decided to install a manufacturing operation.
• Today, the medical devices manufacturing industry in Costa Rica is composed of 25 companies, amongst which are world leaders such as Hospira, Boston Scientific, Cytyc-Hologic, Arthrocare, Allergan and Coloplast.
• Costa Rica’s human capital is its number one strength.
• The sector has expanded to 25 companies and employs 6,300 people.
• The medical devices industry is the 4th biggest exporting sector in the country; its exports have grown 3 times faster than the rest of free trade zone exports. In 2007, it exported $766 million and attracted $150 million in FDI.