Julio Paez Pumar, Director of Projects, International Logistics

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12 November 2015 9:33pm
Julio Paez Pumar, Director of Projects, International Logistics

Where is your company based?
The company is based in Fort Lauderdale, United States, with offices in Panama City and Caracas.

What are your main products?
We offer comprehensive solutions for turnkey healthcare infrastructure. We carry out the whole process of design, architecture, detail engineering, construction with a prefabricated modular construction system, all the way to the management process of everything related to medical equipment and hospital furnishings. The chain of actions comes to an end with the starting-up of the hospital, which can even include the training of the management personnel and technical or maintenance support.

What’s your goal in FIHAV 2015?
Our objective in FIHAV 2015 is to introduce ourselves in Cuba and shed light on our company in other Caribbean countries, since we believe that such practical solutions as ours are in need. We have already outlined models of hospitals and healthcare centers in different scales and sizes for an assortment of services required in the healthcare sector. There models are ready to be implemented in Cuba and other countries of the Caribbean region.

Have you contacted any Cuban officer, Cuba’s Ministry of Healthcare?
No, we haven’t established an official contact with the Cuban government yet. We’ll be working on this agenda, including formal contacts with doctors and members of the Cuban government.

We’re here to provide a service that we believe is of interest to Cuba and most of Latin American countries, because we offer up-to-date and high-quality products, which facilitate the attention to patients and efficient management of public resources in the healthcare sector.

Does MIGLOBAL Group produce, export or import its products?
We have different things depending on the product. Both architectural design and engineering are produced in our offices in Caracas and Panama City, and they are taken to the target country, where they are adapted. We always hire consultancy service at the country where the product is going to be implemented. For example, in Cuba we would hire Cuban architects and engineers to certify that our designs meet all local regulations.  

As for the construction area, we have an agreement with HT, so the structures and panels used for the internal modulation of hospitals are brought from Germany. We buy those elements, bring them and give them to the final customer.

Most of the time, it’s a direct translation process. We don’t do a sort of barter in the middle, but we go directly to the final customer. There is an agreement within the process.

There are products, medical equipment that are directly represented by German and American companies. In order cases, we’re only in charge of putting different suppliers together in one project, which could be related to office furnishings, medical furnishings, any specialized equipment required in the medical area.

We have strategic alliances with suppliers of electromechanical equipment, such as elevators and air conditioning equipment. So we don’t produce them, but we have a range of important suppliers in order to make business. They already know us, so there are credit facilities.                
 

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