costa rica healthcare

In this season of giving, the Calderón Guardia Blood Bank needs donations. The hospital will enable donations on Sundays, in the hopes of more people being able to come in.…

Private companies are willing to purchase vaccines to protect workers from covid. A plan is already in the works after a group of companies started this conversation with the Ministry…

The Marcial Fallas Clinic serves more patients than many regional and peripheral hospitals do. This Centro de Atención Integral en Salud (CAIS) had a waiting list of 23,300 people in…

Autopsies are still pending to find out whether malpractice was involved in two recent deaths following aesthetic procedures in private clinics.  A 37-year-old teacher died during a liposuction procedure. After…

Eleven people died in Costa Rica, from 2006 to 2015, from causes related to cosmetic surgeries. One case is still in court. On this October 12, a 27-year-old teacher, mother,…

For the third time in a month, hospital workers had to be quarantined because a patient failed to mention close contact with a person positive for covid-19. The obstetrics-Gynecology service…

Today the Ministry of Health updated a map that shows where the cases of the new coronavirus are in Costa Rica. The data on the map is given by canton,…

Measures to stop the spread of the covid-19 virus are getting stricter by the day. As of today, gyms, sports centers, sports clubs for activities like karate and judo, and…