Hospital and outpatient provider Aster DM, present in India and six GCC countries, has acquired a medicalised homecare start-up in the UAE. We get insight into this market from CEO of GCC provider Manzil Healthcare.
UAE-based medicalised homecare provider Manzil plans further expansion this year in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Singapore - its South East Asian (SEA) springboard from which it hopes to gain a presence in the wider region. We interview CEO Dr Sarper Tanli on business strategy.
London-listed UAE-based NMC Health, which saw its share price plummet after research firm Muddy Waters published a negative report last week, has announced an independent review into "assertions made by certain third parties". Its share price partially recovered at the news.
Spain's largest private hospital group Quironsalud, part of Fresenius Helios, has signed an agreement to acquire a substantial private hospital in Colombia as part of its continuing investment in the country.
NMC has come out swinging after its share price plummeted 25% on Tuesday, December 17, a fallout from research firm Muddy Waters publishing a negative report. At the time of writing, its shares have dropped 48% in value from the closing price on Monday.
Nearly three years after the CEO of Ghana's National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) declared it "almost bankrupt", its President claims that his party has cleared the GHS1.2bn ($200m) debt. The country isn't alone in having stacked up debt: HBI looks at the arrears of NHI schemes across emerging markets.
US healthcare is so prohibitively expensive that not only are employers paying for employees to have surgery abroad and covering all costs - they are paying the employees thousands of dollars as an incentive to go too! HBI speaks to the CEO of a company trying to grow the US employer-funded medical travel segment, who sees opportunities for providers in Europe and Latin America.
Next year should be the year public teleradiology outsourcing in Saudi Arabia becomes viable, a GCC-based healthcare IT vendor tells HBI. But who will be providing the services?
London-listed EMEA healthcare group NMC Health saw a 25% fall in its share price on Tuesday, December 17, as research firm Muddy Waters, founded by renowned short seller Carson Block, published a negative report on the company. NMC Health says the assertions appear "principally unfounded, baseless and misleading, containing many errors of fact."
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