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Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.

Turkish hospital IPO priced

Medical Park Group, Turkey’s largest private hospital chain by bed count, has priced its IPO suggesting a valuation of the company of between €900m and €1.3bn. Another national hospital group has reportedly decided to postpone its own IPO to avoid a clash.

EQT to sell diagnostic network to Permira

Shareholders in Australia’s largest diagnostic clinic network, I-MED Radiology Network, have agreed terms of sale with global investment firm Permira.

FREE BLOG China looks abroad

There are two striking things about our interview with Group CEO Charles Wang at Luye Medical. First is how long-term its strategy is and secondly, and most intriguingly, is how it plans to import models into China. Luye went out and purchased the third largest Australian hospital group and the second largest oncology player in […]

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.

Swedish PE EQT to sell Australian diagnostic network to Permira

Shareholders in Australia’s largest diagnostic clinic network, I-MED Radiology Network, have agreed terms of sale with global investment firm Permira. Reports at the end of last year said EQT valued I-MED at substantially over A$1bn (US$ 810m) – perhaps as high as A$1.3bn, the figure Permira are reportedly now paying. I-MED had A$608m in sales […]

Mexican maternity chain targets affordable market by ditching hotelier model

Healthcare Nova speaks to an operator who says he is providing affordable maternity and OBGYN services in Mexico by ditching the hotelier model, and drawing inspiration from other emerging market providers. Juan Moctezuma is co-founder and CEO of Reina Madre Hospital in Toluca, which has been included in Duke University's Global Health Institute Innovations in Healthcare 2018 cohort.

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