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Columbia Asia raises US$101m for global growth

Mitsui & co. of Japan has invested US$101m in the pan-Asian hospital group Columbia Asia, reports VC Circle. The money will go towards Asian developments, and the group’s first African hospital: a clinic in Nairobi branded Columbia Africa.
July 29, 2016

Auna’s frenetic race to build national chain in Peru

Private equity-backed Auna has gone from oncological payor-provider to Peru's third largest private healthcare chain in just three years. We speak to financial analyst Fernando Adrián Mendoza at Auna to get a grasp of Peru's prompt healthcare transformation. With global operators like Bupa lurking within Latin America, it's only a matter of time before M&A heats up in this country of 31m.
July 29, 2016

Interview: Andrés Gutiérrez, CEO, Médica Santa Carmen

Mexican renal care cost-cutter Médica Santa Carmen has concluded a second round of investments to expand from four clinics to 20-25 by 2021. We speak to CEO Andrés Gutiérrez about partnerships, the Mexican market and reaching out to the undiagnosed lower classes.
July 29, 2016

FREE BLOG Risk segmentation: What can it do?

We spoke to Mike Wagner from the Advisory Board, who proposes three-tier health insurance systems that prescribe different clinical pathways for chronic patients and the general population. Indeed, there's a flagrant lack of integrated chronic care, which requires multidisciplinary specialization. Especially if we consider that these diseases are pushing healthcare systems off the cliff, not only in the West, but also increasingly in countries with less developed healthcare infrastructure. Focusing on chronic disease is also key to tackling the social determinants of ill health.
July 28, 2016

TPG Growth buys Indian maternity chain Rhea Healthcare for $33m

TPG’s investment platform TPG Growth has bought a majority stake in Bangalore-based maternity chain Rhea Healthcare for $33m (Rs 220 crore), which wants to expand across India. The mother-and-child care sector is one of many growing outpatient specialties in the country.
July 27, 2016

China Resources to buy GenesisCare

Macquarie-backed, state-owned conglomerate China Resources (CR) is waiting for Australian regulatory approval to buy private equity house KKR's 45% stake in oncology group GenesisCare. CR wants to continue expanding Genesis in Western Europe and to tap the Chinese market with new hospital management contracts. The deal values the company at US$1.3bn.
July 26, 2016

FREE BLOG The lessons of Universal Health Coverage

This week we take a look at universal health coverage (UHC). This is central to the global health policy agenda and will remain so, at least until 2030, when the world evaluates its progress towards the sustainable development goals. What is really fascinating about UHC, however, is that it does not exist - it is an ideal. Even more so, it’s not a particularly well-defined one and is difficult to measure. This means that private healthcare, whose markets will be closely shaped by UHC, has little certainty. So what can we say for sure?
July 20, 2016

UAE homecare group Manzil expands to Qatar

TVM Capital-owned Manzil Home Health Services, which provides homecare services in the UAE and Egypt, has entered Qatar and eyes further expansion in Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Hoda Abou-Jamra, co-founder of TVM Capital Healthcare Partners, explains why those markets are very different.
July 20, 2016

Raffles plans US$735m expansion

Singapore hospital operator Raffles Medical Group is to spend US$735m (S$1bn) in the next three years to expand its presence across Asia, especially in China.
July 20, 2016

Personnel shortages to constrain Narayana’s growth, says chairman

The Indian hospital group, Narayana Hrudayalaya, could add another 4,000 beds before staff constraints halt its growth, says chairman and founder, Dr Devi Shetty. The country is short of three million doctors, he says, and staffing his hospitals is becoming increasingly difficult.
July 20, 2016
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