Milenia Labs links Mexican diagnostic centres with lab groups in the United States, Canada and Spain to provide specialized tests. We speak to CEO Salvador Cardona about expanding in Latin America and potentially moving into provision.
US life sciences investor Quantus has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) to develop a large hospital and medical research centre.
Maternal health and gynaecology specialist Thompson Medical is considering a listing on the Singapore Stock Exchange –targeting a S$5bn (US$3.7bn) market cap, according to local reports.
The Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), which provides super-specialty care in Hyderabad and the nearby region of Andhra Pradesh, wants to become the latest Indian group to IPO. KIMS has reportedly hired three investment banks to manage the sale and will release its prospectus at the end of the year.
How is the international hospital sector faring? We look at the results to March or June from the four main players: Australian operator Ramsay Health Care and the Big Three South Africans - Netcare, Mediclinic and Lifehealth. What do they say about their health and the globalisation of the private hospital sector. We talk to analysts.
Private investment in Nigerian healthcare has recently on a bit of a high. There were few investors or groups with an emerging market presence that were not linked with the market. But, with its economy relapsing into self-harm, we weren’t sure what to expect from our investigation.
Vietnam's National Assembly admitted a proposal to remove barriers to foreign investment in healthcare on 1 September 2016. This could open up sectors like laboratory services and cosmetic surgery.
The Iraqi German Functional Imaging Clinic is opening Iraq's first private imaging centre in Baghdad in October 2016. The centre's gamma camera was uninstalled from a previous location in the United States in partnership with imaging group American Allied Imaging. Ibrahim Al Butaihi, a nuclear medicine consultant at Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam, Netherlands, will lead the project.
Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) is to grow its service platform in India after buying the country’s second largest clinic network Sandor Nephro Services. It is hoping to launch a large 200-clinic network and to obtain PPP contracts for centres in district hospitals, according Jan Walter, SVP Central Asia Pacific for Fresenius Medical Care.
Rumours are circulating in the South African press that the landmark National Health Insurance policy, which proposes to expand subsidised health insurance to the whole population, is to be scrapped or radically altered. The tabloid Noseweek reports the Treasury will not allow the White Paper to become policy, as it’s “completely unaffordable under current or foreseeable circumstances.”
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