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Metropolis acquires pathology lab group

Indian diagnostics chain Metropolis has acquired Sanjeevani Pathology Labs in Rajkot, Gujarat, in an all-cash transaction. HBI speaks to Metropolis managing director Ameera Shah to find out more about the reasons behind the deal which concluded earlier this month, and the group's business strategy.
February 28, 2017

Zambia is open for business

The southern African country of Zambia is looking to the private sector to boost its healthcare system and help it move towards universal health coverage. In an interview in London, Dr Kennedy Malama, director at the Ministry of Health, named five key areas it’s looking for help and what Zambia has to offer.
February 28, 2017

Brazil’s new post-acute business model attracting foreign interest

The post-acute market presents a real opportunity in Brazil, after the ban against foreign investment in hospitals was lifted in 2015. This is according to Martin Benitez, an independent consultant with extensive M&A experience in the Brazilian healthcare market who is involved in just such a transaction. He speaks to Healthcare Nova about his latest project, and the market in general.
February 27, 2017

Suppliers still waiting for distributors and investors to sell into Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa lacks the networks of both reliable distributors with service offerings and private equity players that can be approached with deals, says Jonathan Nighswander, director at Polish medical equipment manufacturer Famed, and Vienna-based private equity firm EMSA Capital.
February 27, 2017

FREE BLOG HR: an international market and an international headache

The ability to staff a healthcare provider is perhaps the prime determinant of its success. But recruiting, retaining and training doctors, nurses and support staff has never been harder. Nurses, in particular, are slipping out of health systems like water through a sieve. And their desperate employers are resorting to desperate, perhaps even illegal, measures to staff their wards.
February 24, 2017

Mediclinic’s Middle East problems

Insiders at Arab Health were talking about Mediclinic’s Middle East problems several weeks before the announcement which saw the shares fall 5%. So what are they saying?
February 21, 2017

FREE BLOG Teaching nurses and doctors – a profit centre

The world needs to train more surgeons in the next decade than have ever lived according to Dutch serial entrepreneur Jaap Maljers. So it is perhaps not surprising that investors are starting to see training in, and of itself, as a profit centre.
February 21, 2017

Medanta targets teaching and secondary cities

Privately owned hospital group Medanta has announced it will open a multi-speciality 1,000-bed facility in the city of Bhubaneswar in Eastern India within three years, at a cost of between Rs 750 crore and Rs 1,000 crore ($113m to $150m). We speak to Dr Naresh Trehan, the group's founder and managing director to find out more about his business plan to target “under served” areas of the country, and open educational facilities which private hospitals were previously not allowed to have.
February 20, 2017
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