Dubai Health Authority will launch a tender for private telehealth providers to consult on a state-wide opensource platform in the next couple of weeks.
HBI talks to Louis Shakinovsky, chairman of Global Dental Services (Clove), about how he and colleagues managed to build the business from nothing in 2011 into India’s largest dental practice with 315 clinics.
HBI hears of plans to build a substantial pan-African private hospital chain with an announcement expected as early as 2019. It would be the first investor to attempt this since now-defunct private equity firm Abraaj.
South African-based healthcare operator Life Healthcare is expected to exit India-based Max Healthcare in the next 30 days, as the latter completes its merger with KKR-backed Indian hospital management company Radiant Life Care. HBI talks to a source close to the company to find out more.
Many of the largest Indian operators are shying away from opting-in to India’s nascent foray into UHC for its poorest residents, for fear of losing too many of their private beds to the system.
A source exclusively tells HBI that an NHS Trust specialising in psychiatry and mental health plans to export its brand of specialist clinics to the GCC.
Italian medicalised homecare group Vivisol has acquired two companies in Germany and three in Brazil. We spoke to the vice president of Western European operations at HBI 2019.
Credit funds and whopping piles of dry powder ($1.8trn in 2018) should save the sector from a valuation crash despite general market underperformance and a dire macro economic backdrop, said Hedley Goldberg, partner at Rothschild at HBI 2019.
The new(ish) CEOs of Life and Mediclinic are keen to engage beyond their traditional elite markets of around 9m people. We look at new affordable models and where they could be exported beyond the rainbow nation. Both Life's Shrey Viranna and Mediclinic's Ronnie Van Der Merwe were at HBI 2019.
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