HBI speaks to Stephan Dyckerhoff, CEO of elderly care specialist Buurtzorg Asia, about how the company is managing its business interests in India, China, Taiwan and Japan as coronavirus sweeps the continent.
Care homes in Brazil are looking to avoid the mistakes made in Europe, and are lobbying government to ensure there are medical facilities available for elderly patients showing signs of COVID-19. If isolation within care homes in Europe didn't work, and it clearly hasn't, it will be impossible in Brazil they say.
As HBI Intelligence reviews the impact of COVID-19, HBI has been talking to operators and analysts. One EU-based operator says many markets across Europe will struggle to recover once the COVID-19 crisis has passed. Here is his view of where will be worst hit - and where we may see a surprising rebound.
China's private hospital groups appear to have survived the lockdown with limited financial intervention from the government, but concern is growing, particularly at the premium end of the market, that a long-term economic downturn will push demand away from private care. HBI talks to a Shanghai-based consultant to find out more.
Nationwide lockdowns and travel restrictions are hitting private hospital chains in India, Turkey and Southeast Asia, where the biggest groups garner 10-15% of revenues from international patients. HBI talks to an India-based source to find out more and looks at how operators are faring.
Listed NMC Health has been placed into administration by a London court today (Thursday, April 9), following an application by Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB). HBI talks to a UAE market expert about what may need to be sold off quickly to keep it afloat.
Cancer companies in the UK do not have a contract with the NHS to take 20,000 public patients, despite an earlier report to the contrary in a UK broadsheet newspaper. Providers tell HBI that they fear that a mass of 'second-wave deaths' and look at how pressure might transform clinical pathways in oncology.
CEE private equity firm Arx Equity Partners and the investment company of now-deceased Joseph Priel have sold their stakes in a Slovenian hospital and outpatient group, HBI is told.
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