The 30th Brazilian International Medical Equipment Exhibition Hospitalar (hereinafter referred to as the Brazilian Medical Exhibition) will be held at the Sao Paulo International Convention and Exhibition Center (Sao Paulo Expo) in 2025 from May 20 to 23. The exhibition is held once a year and is hosted by the world-renowned exhibition company Informa Exhibitions Group. The Brazilian Medical Exhibition Hospitalar is the leading medical industry event in South America and was founded in 1994.
During the same period, Hospitalar will hold a number of concurrent conferences and forums, covering topics such as HIMSS, CISS, home healthcare, and medical device innovation. Authoritative figures in the medical field from South America and around the world will be invited to speak, so that participating representatives can clearly understand the future trends and innovative technologies in this field.
The 29th Hospitalar in 2024 welcomed more than 1,200 companies from South America and around the world to participate, showcasing the latest products and technologies to nearly 90,000 professional visitors from more than 100 countries. Professional conferences, industry B2B events, forums and seminars were held at the same time. More than 500 experts, scholars and authoritative figures from various fields served as guest speakers to show the latest scientific research results and discuss industry development trends to more than 10,000 delegates.
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Brazil has a population of over 200 million, making it the largest country in South America and the largest economy in Latin America. It has 6,800 hospitals, 450,000 hospital beds, 50 million private health insurance users, accounting for 25% of the 202 million population, and 1.8 doctors per 1,000 residents.
Brazil is the largest medical device market in South America.
Brazil imports medical equipment from abroad, and most importers need to apply for product import licenses from ANVISA or INMETRO in advance. The import tax rate is mostly between 12% and 16%, depending on the product. After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the Brazilian federal government has successively adopted many response measures, including allocating 5 billion Brazilian reals (about 920 million US dollars) to increase doctors and purchase beds and testing reagents, allocating 19.9 billion Brazilian reals (about 3.66 billion US dollars) to purchase vaccines, and relaxing the import process of 50 medical products such as alcohol, BP machines, gloves, masks and medical clothing, and exempting these products and oxygen cylinders and other materials from import tariffs.
As the economic and trade center of Latin America, Sao Paulo radiates to the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, etc.