Healthcare companies in Guayas, Ecuador

Guayas has 6,776 healthcare company records in ISIC section Q (human health and social work activities), 3,793 of them active, according to the SRI Catastro RUC as of 2026-10-01. That is 22.5% of the section in Ecuador and makes Guayas the 2nd largest of 24 provinces for healthcare. The sector is under-represented here: 3.7% of Guayas's records against 5.3% nationally (location quotient 0.69).

Guayaquil concentrates 81.8% of the active companies, followed by Samborondon (224) and Daule (127); the three together hold 91.1%. The median active company is 4.8 years old; 11% were registered in the last year and 31% in the last three. In the 12 months to September 2026, 415 new healthcare businesses were registered in Guayas, +1.0% on the previous 12 months (national section Q: +6.0%). By ISIC division, 86 (human health activities) is 43.3% of the records and 88 (social work activities without accommodation) 35.2%.

Hospitals, clinics, laboratories, dental and medical practices, care homes and social-assistance organisations. In Brazil and Colombia a large share of division 86 is physicians incorporated as single-practitioner companies; filter by size or legal form to separate institutions from practices. Healthtech, medical supply, health-plan and revenue-cycle vendors are the buyers.