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Interview: Juan Carlos Negrette, Director, Global Health at University of Utah – Health Sciences

Just how valuable are foreign ventures and affiliations for big US academic medical centres such as Mayo and Johns Hopkins? How much revenue are they making and how are these partnerships changing? We ask Juan Carlos who heads up these activities at the University of Utah, and was formerly Managing Director at Johns Hopkins Medicine International.

September 8, 2016

Interview: Juan Manuel Contreras, director at Mexican private equity house Ámbar Capital

Mexican private equity house Ámbar Capital is planning to expand its 50-bed hospital Hospitaria in Escobedo, Nuevo León, into a network targeting middle-income Mexicans across the country's tier II cities. We speak to director Juan Manuel Contreras about low-cost healthcare and rolling into care services.

September 5, 2016

Third largest Brazilian diagnostics group Alliar to IPO

Belo Horizonte-based Alliar, which claims to be the third largest diagnostics player in Brazil, is to list on the Brazilian Stock Exchange in what would be the country’s first IPO in 14 months.

September 5, 2016

The future of healthcare in Nigeria: PPPs and the NHIS?

Healthcare investors generally take a fancy to Nigeria. Africa’s most populous country has a growing middle class and will one day finally put some distance between itself and South Africa as its largest economy. The petrodollars already flow freely into healthcare. But no one has bothered to keep them in the country: not the existing fragmented private sector, nor the government, which has other priorities – President Buhari has been treated in London, after all! So, surely, all that’s left to do is fly in, start a JV with a local partner, consolidate and cut off the medical tourism leak at source?

September 1, 2016

Ramsay shares rise on profit hike

Shares in big private hospital group Ramsay Health Care rose nearly 8% to AUD81.4. The operator which is top dog inFrance and one of the top three in the UK saw net profit after tax rise 16.8% to AUD 482m (€325 m) with group revenue ahead 18.1% to AUD 8.7bn (5.88bn) in the year to June 2016. We analyse the results.

August 30, 2016

Indian hospital group in talks for $75m investment

Private Equity firm KKR is talking with Mumbai-based Radiant Life Care about investing Rs 500 crore ($75m). Healthcare Nova understands that Radiant would use the funds to expand facilities, and refinance existing debt raised in Singapore.

August 26, 2016

3,000 bed teaching hospital in Ghana seeks investors to slow flood of doctors training abroad

Ghanaian entrepreneurs are looking for investors in the Kings and Queens Medical University and Teaching Hospital, a state of the art project in Accra, that aims to reverse the leak of medical students leaving the country. Its wannabe founder Dr Jerryson Ameworgbe Gidisu needs USD 300-350m for the hospital and university.

August 26, 2016

India’s SRL and Fortis to “uncouple”

Fortis Healthcare and SRL Diagnostics, India’s second largest hospital group and largest lab group respectively, are demerging so private equity investors can exit and it can offer specialised hospital and lab stock picks. SRL’s CEO Sanjeev Vashista told Healthcare Nova SRL has eight years left on its contracts with Fortis, which will, in any case, remain a majority shareholder.

August 24, 2016

Indian hospital group with focus on semi-urban areas looking for new investors

Cygnus Hospitals, which runs a chain of low-budget “superspeciality” hospitals in Northern India, is looking for investment to expand.

August 24, 2016

Interview: Mark Adams, CEO of Anglo Arabian Heathcare, on how changes in UAE will create winners – and losers

The healthcare system in the UAE is unusual. Around 85 to 90% of the workforce is from overseas, there’s a fragmented payor market and too many hospitals and clinics chasing too few patients. Something has to change, and as it does, there are going to be winners and losers. Mark Adams, founder and CEO of UAE-based integrated healthcare provider Anglo Arabian Heathcare, shared his views with Healthcare Nova.

August 24, 2016

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