Bupa Chile has signed a cooperation agreement with Siemens Healthineers to make advances in diagnostics in its IntegraMédica medical centres, as well as Clínica Bupa Santiago and its regional clinics. The three-year contract, which is worth 8 million euros, will see Siemens Healthineers provide advanced imaging systems and extensive services to IntegraMédica, Clínica Bupa Antofagasta, Clínica San Jose de Arica and Clínica Bupa Santiago, which will become the biggest Bupa group clinic worldwide.
- Contract between Bupa Chile and Siemens Healthineers worth more than 8 million euros
- Includes extensive maintenance, training and consulting services
- Imaging systems to be supplied for Bupa Chile and their main medical unit
As a health group, Bupa Chile provides integrated healthcare to more than two million people in Chile and Perú. Bupa Chile is part of Bupa, a globally operating British healthcare company with 16.5 million insurance customers, 10.6 million provision customers, 33.100 aged care customers and 86.000 employees around the world.
Siemens Healthineers will supply six 1.5 Tesla MRI scanners, three CT scanners, one angiography system, 12 ultrasound units and several X-ray systems.
Andrés Varas, CEO of Bupa Chile, said: “At Bupa Chile we want to be leaders in the quality of service that we give our customers. That’s why this agreement is very important, and reaffirms our commitment of giving quality medical healthcare to more people in Chile, as this equipment will not only go to our medical centres and clinic in Santiago, but also in other regions.”
“A cooperation agreement of this type and with this volume is something out of the ordinary in Chile,” added Stefano Garbin, head of Siemens Healthineers in Chile. “We are looking forward to assisting Bupa Chile in offering its customers first-class care and simultaneously meeting its productivity goals. Together, we will meet today’s healthcare challenges and help our partner prepare for the future with a high standard of care.”
As part of the cooperation agreement, experts from Siemens Healthineers will train Bupa’s medical personnel to use the imaging systems and to reduce doses as much as possible whenever radiation is used. Siemens Healthineers has also developed customised training plans for this purpose.
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Bupa Chile includes IntegraMédica, Sonorad, Pilar Gazmuri Center, Clínica Reñaca, Clínica Bupa Antofagasta, Clínica San José de Arica, Clinical Service, Isapre CruzBlanca and CruzBlanca Seguros de Vida, and is currently building Clínica Bupa Santiago. It also has operations in Peru, with IntegraMédica, Anglolab and Resomasa. Currently, more than 7,000 people work at Bupa Chile. Bupa has strict protocols of quality and patient security, which applies in the daily management in all its medical areas. In Chile, Bupa Chile is the health group with the largest number of providers accredited by the Superintendency of Health and is among the 100 companies with the best corporate reputation in Chile.
