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Real estate costs too high in Brazil, suggests Senior Assist CEO

Real estate prices scared off the major elderly care group Senior Assist International from entering Lat-Am’s biggest market. In conversation at the IFC conference earlier this month, Bart Vanderschrick, CEO of Senior Assist, said his group had looked at expanding into Brazil last year but found the cost of real estate was too high to make its business model viable.

Mongolia’s Intermed to become EBITDA positive

Intermed Hospital became the first JCI-accredited facility in Mongolia this year and expects its next results to show EBITDA positive figures for the first time, says President Dr T. Bolormaa.

Medical schemes thrown lifeline in SA

South Africa’s government faces a dilemma between ditching the single-payor single fund model of its National Health Insurance (NHI) policy, or offering the management of the scheme to the private sector. We heard more about this at the IFC conference in Barcelona last week.

Acibadem in talks with Saudi government

Saudi Arabia’s government wants the Turkish giant Acidadem and others to run hospitals once they’ve been privatised, we’ve heard from a source within the Andalusia hospital group.

Rx Health making waves in East Africa

Egyptian fund Rx Health Management is closing in on deals in Tanzania and Kenya, says the chairman of the African Health Federation (AHF). Healthcare entrepreneur Dr Amit Thakker told Healthcare Nova at the IFC Global Healthcare Conference in Barcelona earlier this month that Rx Health was in talks with groups in the two east African countries.

FREE BLOG Creating value in health systems

Held every two years, the IFC Global Private Health Conference brings together hundreds of private and public healthcare delegates from around the world. This year, in Barcelona, the main topic of conversation was how to create value in health systems, and Healthcare Nova and Healthcare Europa were there to find out more.

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