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LatinNews Daily - 22 January 2021
In brief: BCIE approves new funds for Costa Rica
* The Central American bank for economic integration (BCIE) has approved a US$500m loan for Costa Rica to improve its hospital network. According to a BCIE press release, the loan will be used to strengthen the infrastructure for three hospitals - Monseñor Sanabria de Puntarenas, Puntarenas province, and Max Peralta and William Allen Taylor de Turrialba, both in Cartago province - which would provide more than 1,000 new beds. The press release noted that over the last eight years, the BCIE had approved two other loans to Costa Rica, worth a total of US$330m, aimed at modernising the country’s hospital network.
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