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.
Almost all the patients at London’s Bupa Cromwell hospital are foreign and half the 2,000 it treats a week are medical tourists said Dr Paul Montgomery, its medical director, at the IMTJ Summit.
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.
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.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Delhi-based Medanta Medicity and Qatari company Humanis Group to open a 500-bed multispecialty hospital, at an estimated $250m. Dr. Naresh Trehan, managing director of Medanta Medicity, says India has a lot to offer the Gulf state.
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.
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 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.
Indonesian hospital chain PT Mitra Keluarga Karyasehat has raised Rp4.45 trillion ($343 million) from its initial public offering with shares prices at Rp17,000, near the top of the Rp14,500 to Rp18,000 indicative range.
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