Analysts blame worries about French hospital tariffs for a drop of around 4% in the share price of Ramsay Healthcare, the Australian hospital group, which is one of the few international chains.
Singapore-based Parkway Life REIT (PLife REIT), an indirect 35.76% owned subsidiary of Malaysia’s IHH Healthcare Bhd, has offered $67.9m for five nursing homes in Japan.
A new report into Saudi Arabian healthcare suggests that its healthcare sector is set to grow at approximately 9% CAGR 2015-2020. Increased government healthcare spending, rising ageing population and an increase in per capita income are all said to be fuelling growth.
Landmark Group, a Dubai based retail and hospitality company, plans to launch 20 healthcare clinics in the UAE for a total investment of AED150m ($40.8m).
In Africa, outpatient services are much savvier investments than hospitals, says Steven Adjei, founder of BlueCloud Healthcare, an investment advisory and incubator fund for healthcare service businesses in Africa, told us this week.
The middle classes in sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly willing to pay for quality lab tests and a growing number of companies are supplying them. Larger groups are overcoming the challenges of opening labs in the continent and now have networks spanning 12 countries. We spoke to leading operators about the opportunities and challenges in African labs.
Moorfields Eye Hospital, the UK’s biggest ophthalmology provider, is set to open up a clinic in Abu Dhabi by the end of 2015 after heading to Dubai nearly 10 years ago. We talk to Moorfields' finance director Charles Nall about the Gulf market.
BlueCloud Healthcare, a UK-based investment advisory firm and start-up business incubator focused healthcare service companies in sub-Saharan Africa, is tapping into private equity’s growing interest in the continent. Healthcare Nova spoke to founder Steven Adjei about the company and his take on investing in Africa.
A Singaporean competition commission has provisionally blocked Parkway Holdings, Southeast Asia’s largest private healthcare provider, from a $137m takeover of diagnostic outpatient chain RadLink Asia.
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