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Suppliers still waiting for distributors and investors to sell into Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa lacks the networks of both reliable distributors with service offerings and private equity players that can be approached with deals, says Jonathan Nighswander, director at Polish medical equipment manufacturer Famed, and Vienna-based private equity firm EMSA Capital.
February 27, 2017

FREE BLOG Teaching nurses and doctors – a profit centre

The world needs to train more surgeons in the next decade than have ever lived according to Dutch serial entrepreneur Jaap Maljers. So it is perhaps not surprising that investors are starting to see training in, and of itself, as a profit centre.
February 21, 2017

Flint Atlantic Capital invests in dialysis in Rwanda

The Nigeria-based fund Flint Atlantic, which specialises in healthcare start-ups, co-invested with US-based Polaris Capital in the Rwandan dialysis group Africa Healthcare Network (AHN) last week. AHN is growing fast but the market is constrained by labour shortages and affordability. We discussed AHN’s potential to broaden access with Nneka Ezeigwe, vice president at Flint.
November 14, 2016

Benin signs Public-Private Partnership (PPP) law

The West African country of Benin just signed a long-awaited law that sets out the conditions under which Public Private Partnerships (PPP) contracts can be signed. The move comes as the government announces three hospital PPPs. Ricardo Missihoun, executive director at the Association of Benin Logisticians (AsLoB), says PPPs are needed in the country.
November 2, 2016

FREE BLOG A continental body for a continental problem

Business leaders in African healthcare will not be contained by borders or bureaucracy! The “iron doors” to the ministries of health have been opened, and no longer does each country's industry stand on its own. Healthcare Nova was in Nairobi to witness the creation of the Africa Healthcare Federation at the African Health Business Symposium (AHBS) 2016 last week.
October 14, 2016

Dr Agarwal plans further African expansion

The Indian eye care chain Dr Agarwal won’t cure its itchy feet, and after opening in two new African countries this summer has taken its total investment on the continent to US$15m. Managing director S. Rajagopalan told Healthcare Nova at the African Health Business Symposium in Kenya how it makes money on a continent where it's now reached one million patients.
October 13, 2016

Egyptian investor close to making acquisitions in Africa

The Egyptian investor Rx Health Management is close to committing most of its US$50m Egyptian fund and is close to making acquisitions in Africa. We speak to CEO and chairman Professor Hatem Elgabaly to find out more.
October 12, 2016
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