"If something we are certain about the pharmaceutical industry of Puerto Rico, is how management, which in the beginning came from United States, has changed to local management, contributing from the human capital point of view, benefiting the whole economy of the Island, such as investments, production and jobs, as well as revenues and taxes paid to the Government. Puerto Rico is a global center of the pharmaceutical industry, and that cannot be said about many other countries."

Heidie Calero
President,
H. Calero Consulting Group

"The pharmaceutical industry in Puerto Rico has made a fundamental contribution to the quality of life of psychiatric patients who suffer emotional conditions and psychological dysfunction’s. Thanks to new and revolutionary medications in neuroscience, these patients have faster recoveries with practically any adverse effect on their emotional conditions. The quality of life rises significantly, and simultaneously, the social and economic cost of these conditions is diminished as a result of these new medicaments. Psychiatric providers feel grateful to the pharmaceutical industries that have developed these medicaments, that in a dramatic way, mitigate human suffering from these psychiatric disorders."

Dr. Alberto Varela
Psychiatric Director,
Psychotherapeutic Institute of Puerto Rico

"The pharmaceutical industry of Puerto Rico produces medicines and medical products of the highest quality, such as Enalapril, a drug used to prevent enlargement of the heart and pacemakers to correct the electrical defects of the heart. Several of these drugs and products have been developed in collaboration with the Cardiovascular Laboratory of the School of Medical Sciences of the University of Puerto Rico."

Dr. Pablo I. Altieri
Medicine Prize, School of Medical Sciences,
University of Puerto Rico

"The pharmaceutical industry of Puerto Rico has contributed largely to the technological changes our Island has undergone in the last decades. With the appearance of this industry, innumerable direct and indirect jobs have been created which have brought about a change toward the utilization of specialized personnel in the field of technology. Engineering and pharmacy are two professions that have supplied a vast number of professionals who perform these important duties. In the areas of distribution and sale of products, the pharmaceutical professional has demonstrated its capacity in an area of performance, different from the traditional dispensing of medications at the drugstore. The pharmaceutical industry offers economic stability and its endeavor have helped develop the areas in which they are located."

Lcda. Gladys Montañez Miranda
Executive Director,
Puerto Rico College of Pharmacists

"The pharmaceutical companies have been the most generous donors the Puerto Rico Community Foundation has had, and their support has been decisive in establishing it as a permanent philanthropic organization."

Dra. Ethel Ríos de Betancourt
President,
Puerto Rico Community Foundation

"The medications produced in Puerto Rico have helped control the health conditions which I suffer, consequently improving my quality of life. The pharmaceutical industry professionals on the Island are very competent, therefore, the products manufactured here are of the highest quality."

María Teresa Lugo
Patient