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Air Liquide acquires Healthcare Antisepsis Solutions (HAS)

International healthcare player Air Liquide has expanded its hospital solutions arm in the Asia Pacific with the acquisition of hygiene and disinfection specialist Healthcare Antisepsis Solutions (HAS). The industrial gas giant had healthcare sales of €2.6bn in 2014, through its medicalised homecare arm and sales to hospitals.

Myanmar is sweet spot for labs

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.

IHH buys stake in India’s Continental Hospitals

IHH healthcare, the Malaysian-based healthcare provider that is one of the world’s largest private healthcare groups, has acquired a 51% stake in India’s Continental Hospitals for RM166.73m ($45.5m) through its subsidiary firm Gleneagles Development.

From Around The World

Here is our weekly round up of private healthcare news from around the Developing World. This week, stories from China, India and the UAE.

From around the world…

Our news summary from around the developing world. This week covers Kazakhstan, Indonesia, India and Singapore.

Report: Global for-profit care home operators race into China

Healthcare Nova looks at the potential for residential care in China, names all the major foreign players active in the sector and talks to operators running homes today in China. How best can companies enter the market? And how large is it? What are the price points charged today for high-end care? By Helen Burgraff

Remo Schneider plans chain of incontinence studios

Remo Schneider, after having sold Senecura’s Swiss assisted living chain Senevita to Orpea, has left to set up a new venture. Schneider set up and ran the Senecura, the Austrian/Czech care home group, with Rudolf Oehlinger. Schneider has the rights to distribute a chair that will cure women of incontinence and men of erectile dysfunction […]

FREE BLOG NHS = British Leyland?

In the autumn of 2013 Lord Warner, a labour member in the House of Lords, described the NHS as similar to British Leyland, the state-owned car manufacturer, which went bankrupt costing the tax payer billions of pounds and the loss of 1m jobs in the Midlands. So, I was interested to find myself talking to a manager who moved to the NHS, and then into private healthcare, after starting his career, at, yes, BL!

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