Eric Souetre, executive chairman of private equity pledge fund CareVentures, identified Myanmar as the next up-and-coming Asian country to invest in at the Healthcare Europa 2015 conference in London this week.
We talk to a seasoned healthcare consultant just back from China on the three reasons why investing in Chinese hospitals may not be the blue-eyed bargain you might expect.
Medical tourism in Asia is booming. This year, 10m medical tourists will be treated on the continent according to the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC). We take a look at the market and in particular, at Malaysia, which has seen huge growth in the past two decades and now claims to account for a tenth of all tourists.
Luz Saúde, the second largest Portuguese hospital chain, has more than doubled sales from medical tourism to €18m in seven years by bridging the cultural gaps between its Lisbon hospital and international patients, according to a presentation at the IMTJ Summit.
Warburg Pincus has sold its 27% stake in Metropolis, the third largest Indian diagnostic lab chain, to the Shah family who run the business. Metropolis is also active in a half a dozen African countries and the UAE.
As Indonesia's Mitra Keluarga’s IPO in March 2015 valued at $1.89bn shows just how much potential there is in private healthcare in this country of 250m with the tenth largest GDP in the world. We take an indepth look at private healthcare in Indonesia.
South Africa is embarking on an ambitious process of reform to redress its historic imbalance in healthcare delivery. The National Health Insurance policy envisions far-reaching change in both the payment and provision of healthcare. The enormously successful private sector, however, has been left in the dark over its future role. What does the future hold for this $30 billion private healthcare market?
Here we name and categorise the major investors in private healthcare services in the Developing World and get their view on the opportunities and problems they face. Developing World healthcare services have suddenly become wildly popular. New listed investment vehicles, such as GCC-based Amanat and Asian Healthcare Group in Malaysia have raised hundreds of millions of dollars with the promise of investing in healthcare services. Meanwhile, established private equity houses are launching funds worth up to $1bn and large healthcare services operators from Indonesia to Egypt are carrying out heavily oversubscribed IPOs on very high multiples.
Malo Clinic, the Portuguese outpatient healthcare group, is set to open a new brand of low cost dental clinics across the 28 countries it is already in. Malo began its internationalisation five years ago and has facilities from Angola to China and Colobia to Poland covering dentistry and cosmetic surgery, as well as an IVF clinic.
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