French industrial and healthcare gases giant Air Liquide has entered the medicalised homecare market in Saudi Arabia, with the acquisition of what, it claims, is the largest player in the respiratory homecare sector.
Several big Brazilian vertically integrated insurance/hospital groups are planning IPOs. Meanwhile, big US healthcare insurers and Chinese investors are sniffing around.
A firesale of bargain basement hospitals due to India’s new bankruptcy law will dominate the country’s M&A activity in 2018 we heard today. So who will buy what?
Local operators say they are impressed by plans from Dubai Health Authority to extend mandatory insurance cover to include the three most common forms of cancer. But they would like to see it crack down on massive medical wastage and fraud.
London-listed London-listed NMC Health has entered the Egyptian hospital sector through its management contract with UAE-based Emirates Healthcare Group, which has bought a stake in one of the top two players there. Local outlets have misreported this as an NMC acquisition, who spoke to us to clarify. Here we give more background.
Generally, healthcare operators across the world offer similar services, albeit with varying degrees of funding, efficiency, technology - and of course success. But occasionally, cultural differences throw up a service which is respected and relied on in one region, and yet ignored everywhere else.
London-listed GCC healthcare provider NMC Health plans to expand in GCC through small acquisitions, expand further into MENA, and potentially move into other emerging market countries through operation and maintenance contracts (O&M), while expanding its fertility segment globally. We speak to NMC to find out more.
A clinic in Taiwan just became the fourth dental practice to accept Dentacoin (DCN), after locations in the UK, Bulgaria and India opted into the dental industry exclusive cryptocurrency. Does it have a future?
Thailand has 18 publicly traded hospital operators, while the UK and Germany have only three each. And all of Western Europe combined? Barely more than a dozen. We look at why.
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