The Ministry of Health, hereinafter MINSAL, and the Competition Superintendence (CS) signed today an agreement to facilitate their joint work for the benefit of health and the population´s welfare.

1. COMUNICADO DE PRENSA C. 05-12
El Salvador, January 30th, 2012.
MINSAL and CS in Joint Work
The Ministry of Health, hereinafter MINSAL, and the Competition Superintendence (CS) signed
today an agreement to facilitate their joint work for the benefit of health and the population´s
welfare.
The Minister of The aforementioned agreement sets forth the general bases of institutional
Health, Maria Isabel coordination in order to create permanent and efficient technical
Rodriguez, MD, cooperation mechanisms that facilitate and promote communication,
stated, “This information exchange, and technical assistance for the optimum
agreement will test the compliance of both institutions´ objectives.
efforts of both
institutions to comply The Parties to the agreement pursue the following:
with the purposes to
achieve an efficient a. Establish communication mechanisms that allow the exchange of
supply and access to
information in and agile and duly manner;
pharmaceuticals at a
better price and b. Exchange information, knowledge, and tools related to the Parties´
quality for our working areas by means of technical human resources;
population” . c. Carry out the necessary meetings to establish future joint activities
-------------------------- when needed.
“We are creating the
mechanisms to The Minister of Health and the Competition Superintendent asserted that the
facilitate institutional agreement they has subscribed includes the execution of joint activities for
cooperation, mainly to
the benefit of the population, economic efficiency, and competition in the
obtain information
exchange and pharmaceuticals and other sanitary products market.
technical training on
each institutions´ Prior to the subscription of the above cited agreement, the Parties had
capacities”, said worked together in order to know the details of the competition studies on
Francisco Diaz the pharmaceuticals market carried out separately by each one of them, in
Rodriguez, order to share the findings and conclusions of said documents.
Competition
Superintendent.