Obesity in Costa Rica cost CCSS 65 billion colons last year
Email this page November 11th, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) Obesity and its side effects, from diabetes to hypertension, cost the Costa Rican Social Security System (CCSS) 65 billion colons (about $130 million USD) in doctors’ visits and hospitalizations in 2011. The amount does not include the cost of medications and only takes into account medical service […]
Officials warn of dangerous seafood in Costa Rica as a result of “red tide”
Email this page November 8th, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) A sample taken in the Pacific Ocean, in various sectors such as Punta Chuchillo and Isla Cedros, has forced Costa Rica’s Agriculture and Livestock Ministry (MAG, in Spanish) and the Fishing and Aquaculture Institute (INCOPESCA) to ban mollusks such as oysters, clams, mussels, and piangua, among others, due […]
March in defense of “La Caja” on Thursday
Email this page November 8th, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) Various associations and citizens say they will march to the Costa Rican Social Security System’s (CCSS, also known as the “Caja”) main offices at 9:00 a.m. this morning. Organizers say they want to defend the institution and citizens’ rights to social security. The march will begin in […]
Desamparados gets a hospital
Email this page November 2nd, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) After many years of residents petitioning the government for a hospital of their own due to the size of the city, the residents of Desamparados have finally received what they’ve been asking for. The 525,000 inhabitants of Desamparados have a new “intermediate hospital”, the Marcial Fallas Diaz […]
Costa Rica Health Ministry warns of energy drink danger
Email this page October 24th, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) – Sissy Castillo, Costa Rica’s Vice-Minister of health, said that the Ministry was going to conduct a study on the “Monster Energy” brand energy drink that is distributed in Costa Rica, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States, requested the drink be investigated, in […]
Recalled sunscreen has users bursting into flames, still on shelves in C.R.
Email this page October 23rd, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) – Last week in the United States, Energizer Holdings, makers of “Banana Boat” brand sunscreen, issued a recall for 23 varieties of its spray-on sunscreens because users were quite literally, bursting into flames. So far, 4 users of the sunscreens in the United States and 1 user in Canada […]
Deadly flu in Costa Rica has killed 4 people
Email this page October 21st, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) – So far there are 18 confirmed cases of a strain of influenza B, known as the most mortal flu strain in Costa Rica. One patient, a woman, could barely speak when upon arriving at a community health center. The virus had attacked her respiratory system. […]
Tents, warehouse, and the parking lot are the hospital “facilities” in Puntarenas
Email this page October 17th, 2012 – Patients of the Monsenor Sanabria Hospital, in Puntarenas, are having a tough time getting used to the “new facilities.” The parking lot in which they used to park their cars is now the outpatient area. The hospital was one of the structures most damaged by the […]
