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Grupo Amarey and MedTech reinforce with alliance operation in Panama

Grupo Amarey and MedTech reinforce with alliance operation in Panama

Johnson & Johnson MedTech, the world's leading company in products for open and laparoscopic surgery, has decided to start an alliance with the company UCITECH, a subsidiary of the Amarey Nova Medical Group, to distribute its well-known sutures, bleeding control solutions, trocars, forceps, and more. elements of minimally invasive surgery, with the objective of providing high quality technology and innovation to the Panamanian people.

Source: Periodico Digital Centroamericano

The company, with Colombian capital, has 600 employees, invoices 75 million dollars a year and projects significant investments in the markets of Panama and Costa Rica over the next few years.

With this alliance, UCITECH seeks to become one of the major providers of surgical solutions for Panamanian doctors and their patients, hoping to offer the Ethicon Inc. portfolio in a market of approximately 20,800 surgeries per year (open and minimally invasive) in the public sector. .

UCITECH is the Panamanian subsidiary of the Colombian business group Amarey, a conglomerate with 38 years of experience made up of five companies and dedicated to the commercialization of pharmaceutical products, surgical devices and equipment. It has more than 600 employees, bills 75 million dollars a year, and projects large investments in the Central American markets, changing the service experience in this sector.

"With this alliance we increase our coverage in Panama through our subsidiary UCITECH, with whom we have managed in the last 14 years to build a modern hospital logistics distribution network, whose management allows us to improve the quality of service provision, the safety of patients and the reduction of costs to the health system”, affirmed a senior executive of Grupo Amarey.

UCITECH, a company of Colombian origin, is currently celebrating 14 years of commercial presence in Panama, with experience and recognition in the commercialization of wound care products, blood products, immunoglobulins and a portfolio of equipment that includes monitors, beds, incubators, endoscopy equipment. and your locally authorized technical service workshop in Panama City.