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Low-cost dialysis group to build Africa’s largest network

Dialysis provider Africa Healthcare Network secured a contract with the Ministry of Health in Rwanda to deliver kidney care to district hospitals across the country. The group aims to triple capacity in Rwanda in the next year and launch up to 100 centres across Sub-Saharan Africa in the next five years. We speak to CEO Nikhil Pereira-Kamath.

IFC backs Regency Hospital to expand in Uttar Pradesh

The World Bank's investment arm International Finance Corporation (IFC) is backing an Rs 160 crore ($24m) investment to expand Regency Hospital in Kanpur, India. The plan is to open a new secondary hospital and an oncology centre run jointly with Bangalore-based cancer specialist Health Care Global (HCG). Regency will also expand across Uttar Pradesh with new hospitals in Lucknow and Allahabad.

Dunyagoz to strengthen its hospital network

Turkish ophthalmology group Dunyagoz, which runs 22 centres in Turkey and Europe, is expanding to neighbouring countries and beyond. It is looking at Iran and Russia and is launching two new hospitals in the Netherlands and Azerbaijan in June 2016. We speak to CEO Koray Ozbay about the group’s strategy.

Interview: Dr Sanjeev Kanoria

An ex-McKinsey consultant and a liver surgeon by training, Sanjeev is one of four brothers running a family conglomerate which is the second largest non-banking financial institution in India. He is also chairman of Advinia healthcare, a chain of 16 UK care homes which he founded in 1999 with his wife sangita. In 2017, he will launch a brand new 400 bed, multi-specialist hospital in New Mumbai, India, which plans a stream of joint ventures with specialist providers.

Medsi in a bad way

The Russian hospital and outpatient group, Medsi, saw a net loss of 127m rubles (€1.7m) as sales fell by 16% in 2015. A spokesman for Sistema, Medsi’s parent company, put the result down to losing a service contract with the civil service and capital expenditure on a new diagnostic centre. But OIBDA fell by 44.1% year on year, following a 27.3% fall last year.

Emirates Hospital buys 60% of Slovakian rehab specialist Adeli

Dubai-based Emirates hospital is to buy 60% of children neuro-rehabilitation Slovakian specialist Adeli. Pramod Balakrishnan, CEO of Emirates Hospital, says the group plans to open five centres in the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar to provide follow-up care to patients returning from Slovakia.

Mediheal expands to Ethiopia

Kenya-based hospital operator Mediheal, which runs one hospital and five diagnostic centres (total figures) in Eldoret, Nakuru, Nairobi and Kigali is entering a Ksh100m ($1m) expansion phase in Kenya and Ethiopia. We speak to CEO Devaki Nandan Bansal.

Medicover in bold Indian IVF move

The pan-European operator, Medicover, which has lines in occupational healthcare, labs, ambulances, fertility and more, is to open 50 IVF clinics in India within five years at a cost of US$100m. In just four months, it’s planning four clinics in the National Capital Region (NCR) and from there it will expand across the north, building ten outlets within 18 months. Fredrik Ragmark, CEO of Medicover, explained this out of character move to us.

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