Hospital operator Grupo Episcopal San Lucas has invested more than $17 million in the past six months to move forward its development plans to strengthen patient services offered at its Guayama and Ponce facilities, company officials announced Thursday.
The links that make up Puerto Rico’s food chain — shippers, distributors and retailers — need to become as efficient as possible to keep costs in check as external pressures continue mounting and threatening the price and availability of products.
Puerto Rico’s wireless carriers, in cooperation with local and federal government agencies, are working toward deploying a platform known as the Commercial Mobile Alerts System, to be able to deliver real-time messages to subscribers in case of an emergency.