A new hospital to be built in Lagos as part of an urban development project is looking for investors. We speak to the broker of the deal at real-estate brokerage firm Coldwell Banker Netherland (CBN).
Investors were less than impressed by Netcare's recent announcement that earnings for the year to September 30 would be lower than last year - dropping its share value by almost 13% before a slight recovery. Netcare blamed "difficult trading conditions" but it is not the only one feeling the heat at home - Life and Mediclinic have also seen their values drop in the last six months. We talk to a South Africa based healthcare expert to find out what's wrong with the market.
It's been a fortnight since India's health insurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat or 'Modicare', officially launched. But major stumbling blocks preventing take-up remain, including logistical barriers to dispersing medical cards and enrolling private sector hospitals.
A new report on Saudi Arabian healthcare from Colliers International outlines the private hospital sector's growth and increasing share of the national market from 2010 to 2016 with future growth forecasts.
KKR, the global private equity giant, has formed SinoCare Group, a hospital investment and management platform in China that will acquire, build-out and consolidate existing hospitals. Healthcare Nova speaks to a Hong-Kong based consultant to find out what people think on the ground.
Buurtzorg, a Dutch domiciliary care business, is finally breaking even on the Asian market after a challenging first few years. We speak to Buurtzorg Asia's CEO Stephan Dyckerhoff about the difficulties of implementing his model in the far East.
Here we look at what strategies private medical insurers plan to follow over the next few years based on our attendance at UniGlobal’s 10th conference in Berlin. This complements our other article – International Healthcare Insurers – It’s a Hard Life – which gives a picture of where insurers really are today.
A fairly bleak picture of the future of healthcare in emerging markets was painted by Laurent Pochat-Cottilloux, Global Head of Healthcare Reinsurance at Axa Reinsurance, speaking at the UniGlobal Annual Health Insurance Conference.
Private equity giant TPG Capital has reportedly entered exclusive negotiations to take over the management of Abraaj's $1bn healthcare fund which has assets in Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and India. It looks to be the end of a protracted saga which contacts say might dampen fund managers' appetite for so-called impact investing in emerging markets.
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