“The debt of the CCAA is a threat to the viability of many firms of health technology.”

– The crisis can also be an opportunity to ”

– one of the keys to fighting the economic crisis is innovation and internationalization ”

Granada, 2011-October in the course of the VII National Congress of health journalists, which was held last weekend in the Andalusian School of public health in GranadaMargarita Alfonsel, Secretary general of the Spanish Federation of companies of Tecnología Sanitaria (FENIN), has warned that the debt of the public health of the autonomous communities with health technology companies, provides a clear situation of uncertainty about the future of this sector, with a strong social commitment, since it directly affects the health and quality of life of citizens ”.

Alfonsel statements have been made in the inaugural Congress of informants of health, told more than 250 reporters, and act together to María Jesús Montero, Minister of health of the Board of Andalusia.

In his speech, Alfonsel has indicated also that the financial crisis poses a certain risk for the viability of the national health system ”, so from health technology companies are making a great effort, trying by all means that the research, development and innovation in our industry follow channelled towards society, resulting in an improvement of their health and their quality of life ”.

This juncture, has an impact on the collective business of health technology companies, coming in many cases to the infeasibility of some companies who are today fighting for its survival and, in other cases, have been forced to rethink their structures ”.

Before the little rosy economic Outlook, the general Secretary of FENIN pointed also to the economic and financial crisis is and must be for all, considered as an opportunity to ”.

In this sense, has continued influencing that some of the ways of the companies of health technologies to overcome the crisis is still innovation and internationalization, seeking alternatives to market for products and services of our companies abroad ”.

The expert has affected before reporters specializing in the field of health that all of these concepts and lines of action are merely means to achieve one single goal, that is none other than the get all knowledge or advance generated from the biomedical r & d, results in a substantial improvement in the level of health and welfare of the society ”.

Alfonsel has concluded stressing that this purpose must be based on a commitment by all and which must be above economic crisis ”.