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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.

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 edges forward

One of Turkey's biggest hospital groups has started marketing its IPO to investors with an intention-to-float document release. Private equity owners Turkven will float nearly half of Medical Park Group in a listing set for the first half of 2018. We talk to contacts in Turkey.

Laureate sells off private universities in Europe

Laureate Education Inc, the NASDAQ listed private university chain, has agreed to sell for-profit European University Cyprus (EUC), which has a medical school and the only accredited dentistry program in Cyprus. We hear other European assets may follow.

Turkish hospital giant set for $1bn IPO next year

Medical Park Group, one of Turkey's largest hospital chains, is set to go public in 2018 according to its majority owners. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has been touted as a candidate for the offering which could value to company at $1bn. Healthcare Europa speaks to a Turkish healthcare consultant about to find out more and to ask if that valuation is realistic. 

Can you build a business on educating doctors and nurses?

Can you make a successful business educating doctors and nurses? You can if the growth of the world’s largest higher education network, Laureate, is anything to go by. Healthcare Nova catches up with Dr. Francisco Gutierrez, senior vice president of medicine and health sciences.

Acibadem in talks with Saudi government

Saudi Arabia’s government wants the Turkish giant Acidadem and others to run hospitals once they’ve been privatised, we’ve heard from a source within the Andalusia hospital group.

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