About PROMEDThe Council for the International Promotion of Costa Rica Medicine - PROMED is a non for profit organization which coordinate the efforts carried out to assure the quality that the Health Industry of Costa Rica serves, as well as internationally promote them.
The purpose of Promed is to unify the country as the center of international medicine and the leaders of health and health tourism destinations. Its conformation arises from the private and State sectors to supervise the quality of service to medical tourism patients, with the last aim to guarantee the sustainable growth of this industry.
PROMED develops regulatory norms and promotes the certification of the lenders of services, which carry out with international support the organisms and the qualification of local certifiers.
(24/07/10) - La cirugía estética representa cerca del 50% de la demanda de tratamientos por parte de
visitantes.
(20/08/10) - Las empresas que conforman el cluster de turismo médico en Costa Rica ya tienen un plan para triplicar el ingreso de pacientes en los próximos cinco años: ofrecer sus servicios a grandes empresas mundiales.
(24/07/10) - Varias instituciones se convirtieron en las primeras entidades con contar el Sello de Calidad de Turismo Médico .
(21/07/10) - Los turistas que llegan a Costa Rica atraídos por las ofertas médicas ahora tendrán la facilidad de diferenciar entre los servicios que se ofrecen.
RAC aims to resolve hereditary controversies, of available nature, about affairs related to the professional practice of health.