Health's staff members from Reconquista Region visited LIF

Staff members of different public hospitals from Reconquista, Vera, Las Toscas, Calchaquí, Romang and Villa Ocampo visited LIF.

     First, LIF’s staff members welcomed to the visitors at the multiple use room (MUR) where they watched the LIF’s institutional video.
     Then, Claudio Casals (Production Manager) gave a lecture about “LIF’s Management Model” and then Oscar Prendes (Academic Relationship Manager) talked about “Safety and Quality of Medicines”.
     After this meeting, the different areas (production, quality control and storage) were shown to the visitors.
     Oscar Prendes, Silvina Mugni (Quality Control Manager), Claudio Casals, Rosana Mandrile (Co Technical Director) and Leandro Degreff (Storage Manager) led this activity.
     Finally, all of them shared a lunch where they exchanged their different work experiences in health.

More public production for the National Government

     Public laboratories of medicines had a meeting in Santa Fe city where they discuss over the next provision for the National Health Ministry.
     The public laboratories present at this meeting were those that often provide medicines to the REMEDIAR Program.
     Gerardo Poggioli and Anibal Monbiela from the Instituto Biológico (La Plata), Teresa Nigra, Miguel Demalde and Sergio Tobares from the Laboratorios Puntanos (San Luis); Daniel Salomón, Roberto Ganin, Carlos Arques, Carlos Minatti, Diego Bruno and Guillermo Cleti from LIF (Santa Fe) attended the meeting.
     They worked with the proposal of medicines for the National Health Ministry. That production of medicines will be provided in the second half of 2014.
     Different medicines for treatment of chronic diseases as diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.are going to be produced
     Also, antibiotics, medicines for treatment of parasites and analgesics are going to be provided by the above mentioned entities.


REMEDIAR Program is a national program that provides medicines to almost 7000 CAPS (Primary Health Centres) of Argentina.

Meeting at National Health Ministry

     LIF’s Board Directors Guillermo Cleti and Daniel Salomón had a meeting with Mauricio Monsalvo (REMEDIAR Program’s General Coordinator), Jorge Zarzur (Executive Director of the National Program of State Production of Medicines, Vaccines and Medical Devices) and Maximiliano Derecho (Legal Advisor - National Program for the Control of Drugs and Medical Devices Market - ANMAT).
     The meeting took place at the National Health Ministry in Buenos Aires where they talked about the next LIF’s production of medicines for the second half of the 2014.
     Since December 2013, LIF has produced different medicines for the treatment of chronic diseases as diabetes (Glibenclamide and Metformin), hypertension (Enalapril) and High Cholesterol (Simvastatin).
     Antibiotics (Amoxicillin and Cefalexin) and Analgesics (Paracetamol) are.more medicines that are going to be produced by LIF.
     The National Health Ministry wants to continue with the provision of these medicines in more than 7000 CAPS throughout the country.


     REMEDIAR Program is a national program that provides medicines to almost 7000 CAPS (Primary Health Centres) of Argentina.
     ANMAT: Administración Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnología Médica. (National Regulatory Agency for medicines, food and medical devices).
     CAPS (Primary Health Centres)

Meeting at PROZOME in Río Negro

     Diego Bruno (LIF’s Director) and Roberto Ganin (LIF’s General Manager) travelled to Río Negro province where they visited the Laboratorio Productor de Medicamentos (PROZOME). 

     Marne Livigni (PROZOME’s Director), Viviana Erripa (Technical Director) and Romina Martínez (Technical Area) welcomed the LIF’s members and then they had a meeting in which they exchanged information about the public production of medicines.
     As a result from this meeting, both laboratories will renew the Agreement of Mutual Cooperation signed in 2010.
     Today, PROZOME doesn’t have the national approval by ANMAT*. Therefore, LIF will collaborate with PROZOME through advice and with associated work.
     After the meeting Bruno and Ganin visited the different areas as quality control, storage and production.

PROZOME: Laboratorio Productor de Medicamentos de la Provincia de Río Negro. (Manufacturer Laboratory of Medicines of Río Negro province). It is a state-run laboratory manufacturing pharmaceutical products.
(*) ANMAT: Administración Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnología Médica. (National Regulatory Agency for medicines, food and medical devices).

About Public Production of Medicines
     After the visit to PROZOME, Diego Bruno and Roberto Ganin had a meeting with Luciano Ruiz (Coordinator Secretary of Río Negro’s Health Ministry), Pedro Pesatti (Río Negro’s Legislator), Luis Bartorelli (Río Negro’s Legislator) and Gabriel Navarro (Secretary) in which LIF’s members gave a short lecture about public production of medicines and the LIF’s history, present and future.
     Finally, all of them shared a coffee and exchanged their experiences.