Let’s go to the point | Until 16 months to have a health permit!

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June 19, 2025June 19, 2025By Mario Vásquez
Let’s go to the point | Until 16 months to have a health permit!

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With digitalization, pharmacists and cosmetics could reach Guatemalans faster, since permits can take up to 12 or 16 months. In the Videopodcast we go to this week’s grain we talk about the subject.

For the private sector, digitizing official permits processes is the answer to expedite the arrival of pharmacists and cosmetics to the market. (Free Press Photo: Freepik)

When we talk about pharmacists, such as medications that are for well -being such as vitamins or syrups, related are included.

“These products are used daily, some related are shampoo, conditioner, combing cream, perfume, among others. Today those products are affected by the processing, by the arrears perceived in the Ministry of Health,” says Silvana Marsicovetere, director of the Cosmetic and Hygienic Commission of AGEXport.

She was invited in the Videopodcast we go to the grain, the Guatemala VideoPodcast does not stop and free press, conducted by the communicator Laysa Palomo. In the conversation was also Deborah Wellmann, from the Wellco Pharmaceutical Company.

Let’s go to the grain at 5 points

Within the conversation, five points highlighted:

  • Process digitalization: It is essential to digitize permits to expedite waiting times. This would allow real -time monitoring of the files, providing transparency and reducing uncertainty for companies.
  • Delays in the pharmaceutical industry: The procedures for registering medicines, which previously took four months, can now take up to 16 months. This can limit the capacity of pharmaceutical companies to innovate and compete internationally.
  • Negative economic impact: Delays in obtaining permits affect competitiveness, especially exports. Sectors such as cosmetic-hygienic, which generates more than US $ 600 million annually, and the pharmacist, with US $ 400 million, are particularly harmed.
  • The collaboration between the private sector and the government It is essential. The private sector is willing to support proposals and technology to improve the permits processes with the Ministry of Health.
  • Innovation challenges: Developing new products in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic sectors can take six to nine months. However, delays in records double time and increase costs, affecting innovation and market response capacity.

It can reproduce here In video the complete conversation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp2_usq_oyk

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We go to the point It is a VideoPódcast produced In alliance between free press and Guatemala it does not stop.

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