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Our manager, Oscar M. Jordan, participated last October 11 in the program Valor Salud of the station Capital Radio to talk about the company as an example of a company committed to the health of the population and also to the progress of the country.
You can listen to the FULL INTERVIEW HERE
The director of the program, Fran García Cabello, highlighted Hersill for its more than 50 years of working in the manufacture of medical equipment, “an indispensable work to be able to serve the different sectors and professionals within the hospital healthcare chain.” In his opinion, “it is not easy to maintain for so many years as a reference in a market as competitive as that of medical devices, it is also necessary to have a good business culture.”
“That in 1973 my uncle Benjamin Arranz Escamilla decided to start manufacturing medical devices in Spain was a real feat,” according to Oscar M. Jordan, who highlighted the strong vocation of HERSILL, from its beginnings, to develop quality products, always with an eye on innovation.
Starting in the 1990s, faced with a scenario where medical technology is increasingly global, the company sees it as essential to go abroad to offer its products and focus on export. Over time, the devices dedicated to oxygen therapy and emergency care were evolving with the incorporation of other lines such as anaesthesia. An important milestone was the introduction of the anaesthesia workstation, followed by the transport and emergency ventilator VITAE-40, which proved crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“When the pandemic started, the demand for ventilators skyrocketed. At that time, we realized there were no manufacturers of intensive care ventilators in Spain,” recalled Jordan. In the worst times of the health emergency, Hersill was able to accelerate production of its transport ventilator, managing to deliver 5,000 units in just nine weeks.
The pandemic exposed the country’s shortcomings in terms of availability of technological products to deal with any type of health crisis, which brought into the debate the importance of strengthening Spain’s industrial and technological capabilities, according to the manager. Based on this reflection, HERSILL launched the “Technologies that make the country” campaign, which seeks to unite other technology companies to promote development and innovation in the Spanish technological business fabric.
He stressed that these companies manage to advance despite the difficulties to grow and be competitive, but that they need a boost from the Administration to be able to continue moving forward and that Spain can be compared with other countries in its environment.
Regarding the future of the medical technology sector and the rise of digitization and artificial intelligence tools, he emphasized that a device that touches the patient will always be needed to make a diagnosis or apply a treatment.
