Meeting in the Sub Region Casilda

     Guillermo Cleti (LIF’s Director), Elvia Gómez (Pharmacy Director of Santa Fe) and Edgardo Ramírez (LIF’s Customer Care) participated in the meeting that took place in the CAPS* Barrio Nueva Roma in Casilda.

     The main objective was to give information about medicines.
     Drug purchasing, rational use, treatment of expired medicines, production and delivery of medicines were some the topics developed by Cleti and Gómez.
     Members of hospitals and CAPS from different cities and towns attended this meeting.
     Sub Region Casilda includes these towns: Chabás, Sanford, Pujato, Arequito, Los Molinos, San José de la Esquina, Villa Mugueta, Fuentes, Bigand and Zavalla.

*CAPS: Primary Health Centres

LIF explained its Drug Safety System in Rosario

     Guillermo Cleti (LIF’s Director), Cecilia Selis (LIF’s Technical Director) and Ana María Gonzalez (LIF’s Responsible for Drug Safety) participated in the meeting that took place at the Pharmacist College 2nd Division (Rosario city).
     Pharmacists of different public hospitals from Rosario and the region attended this meeting.
     The main objective was to show the Drug Safety System of LIF.
     The ANMAT’s normative Nº 5358/2012 determines the Good Practices of Drug Safety for manufacturers of medicines.
     “Everyday, LIF works for the efficacy, quality and safety of our medicines. For this reason we have contracted a pharmacist to develop the LIF’s Drug Safety System and in this way fulfill with the normative”, said Guillermo Cleti.

Annual General Meeting

     On Thursday the 30th, Mario Drisun (President of LIF’s Executive Committee) led the Annual General Meeting at LIF.
     Ezequiel Ruani (Legal Adviser of the Health Ministry) participated as a Government Representative.
     LIF’s Board of Directors Guillermo Cleti, Diego Bruno, Daniel Salomón and Carlos Arques participated in the meeting in which the annual report and financial statement for 2014 were approved.
     Carlos Minatti (LIF’s Trustee) and Roberto Ganin (General Manager) also attended the meeting.
     After the meeting all the presents shared a lunch with all the LIF’s staff members in the backyard.
     “It is very important and a personal satisfaction for me to share this lunch with you previous to Work Day”, said Mario Drisun.
     “Santa Fe is leader in public production of medicines in Argentina and you are responsible for that. Every day you produce medicines for a lot of people. They are users of the public health system in Santa Fe and in other provinces. Without the LIF’s medicines they couldn’t get a treatment for their illnesses. I want to highlight your work and commitment with the population”, said Mario Drisun.

LIF’s Directors visited Veterinary School

     LIF’s Directors: Guillermo Cleti, Diego Bruno and Daniel Salomón visited the Veterinary School of the UNL*.
     Veterinary School is located in Esperanza (it is a city in the center of Santa Fe province). It has an important Center of comparative medicine (CCM).
     LIF’s Directors were welcomed by Dr. Hugo Ortega (CCM’s Director).
     First, they had a meeting and then they visited the different areas (production of different animal species, biological tests, quality management and storage).

*UNL: Universidad Nacional del Litoral - National University of the Litoral.

New emergency care system

     Santa Fe’s Government increased in 83 the number of ambulances for the Emergency Care System.
     Antonio Bonfatti (Santa Fe’s Governor) and Mario Drisun (Health Minister) led the ceremony which took place in Santa Fe city.
     Different hospitals of Santa Fe province received 54 ambulances with high emergency equipment; 25 patient transport ambulances and 5 minibuses.
     The Government act had a place where there were different stands with health information.

     LIF participated in this ceremony with its own stand in which LIF’s staff members gave information about public production of medicines.
     LIF’s Directors: Diego Bruno, Daniel Salomón and Carlos Minatti (Trustee) participated in this ceremony.

Meeting with the National Health Minister

Dr. Mario Drisun (Health Minister of Santa Fe and Chairman of LIF’s Executive Committee) had a meeting with Dr. Daniel Gollan (National Health Minister).

     LIF’s Board of Directors: Guillermo Cleti, Carlos Arques, Diego Bruno and Daniel Salomón, also participated in the meeting.
     Training for health human resources (HHR); strengthening the primary healthcare system and public production of medicines (PPM) were the main topics in the meeting.
     “The regulation of the National Law Nº 27113 will be available soon. This regulation will allow us to organize the work that public laboratories have been making in the last years in a better way”, said Daniel Gollan.
     The Law Nº 27113 created the Agencia Nacional de Laboratorios Públicos (ANLAP)*.
     “The financing of the R&D of new medicines and the production of these medicines in public laboratories will be some of the projects led by ANLAP”, said Gollan.
     “We have had an excellent meeting. We consider the health and the medicines like common good so, the State must be present. The National Health Ministry wishes to continue working with LIF and LEM** through REMEDIAR Program(1).”, said Mario Drisun.
     “National Government and Santa Fe Government have a lot of health topics to work together. Our main objective will be to strengthen the public healthcare system”, said Drisun.


*ANLAP: National agency that to meet public laboratories of medicines.
**LEM: Laboratorio de Especialidades Medicinales - It is a public laboratory from Rosario Town Hall.
1 - REMEDIAR Program: It is a National Program. This program delivers medicines in more than 7000 public healthcare centers in Argentina.

LIF continues producing medicines for REMEDIAR Program

     Since 2008 LIF has produced medicines for REMEDIAR Program*. This has been a positive impact for LIF who has been able to expand its horizons.
     Until 2008, LIF only delivered its medicine to Santa Fe province. But in that year LIF met the GMP requirements of ANMAT and was able to produce medicines for other provinces, cities and the National Government.
     These productions were a great opportunity for LIF. The money earned from these sales were invested on building, new technology and staff training.
     In 2014 LIF produced more than 46 million of tablets for REMEDIAR.
     Since 2008 LIF has delivered more than 100 million of pharmacology units (tablets and bottles) to the National Government.
     Cefalexin, Amoxicillin, Paracetamol,Glibenclamide, Metformin, Enalapril and Simvastatin are some medicines produced by LIF..
     Now LIF continues producing medicines for REMEDIAR.
     This year, LIF is going to deliver 14 million medicines between January and June 2015.

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