Duty-free health zone opens near Bucaramanga
By Manuel Rueda, Editorial Director
Thursday, June 3, 2010
President Uribe inaugurated construction work for Colombia´s first duty-free zone for the health sector, which will be located in the municipality of Floridablanca.
The duty-free zone will include a ten floor hospital, an office building for doctors, a hotel, and a convention center that can hold 1,200 people, as well as a research building and a tower specially designed for medical tests.
Companies, doctors and health entities working within this duty-free zone will receive tax exemptions and pay no tariffs on medical equipment imports.
Organizers say the core buildings of the duty-free zone will be operational by early 2012.
The zone´s hospital is expected to have 400 beds and will include facilities for regenerative medicine, new cancer therapies, genetic bioengineering, fertility treatments and advanced transplant operations.
A health sector duty-free zone is also in the works in the western city of Pereira.
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