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Interview: Omer Karahan MD, Partner, ValueHealth Consulting

How is the Turkish private healthcare sector faring? Who better to ask than Omer Karahan, whose firm ValueHealth specialises in the sector? How is the private sector faring in Turkey these days? Have recent events affected the private sector? And where are we today with the big PPPs?
August 30, 2016

Acibadem rekindling Russian romance

Acibadem will “be in Russia in the future,” says its international business coordinator, Melis Zorluoglu. The integration of recent acquisitions in Bulgaria, another piece of its growing Eastern European presence, she said is also progressing well.
August 26, 2016

UAE homecare group Manzil expands to Qatar

TVM Capital-owned Manzil Home Health Services, which provides homecare services in the UAE and Egypt, has entered Qatar and eyes further expansion in Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Hoda Abou-Jamra, co-founder of TVM Capital Healthcare Partners, explains why those markets are very different.
July 20, 2016

Acibadem’s European plans

IHH Healthcare’s Turkish arm Acibadem has big plans for Europe where it recently became the largest player in Bulgaria with the acquisition of City Clinics. It is negotiating to buy in Romania and will build facilities in two other European countries.
June 9, 2016

Acibadem confirms Bulgarian deal

The Turkish subsidiary of IHH Healthcare Berhad, Acibadem, will buy Bulgaria’s largest private hospital, Tokuda, and up its stake in the chain, City Clinic, for a total of €144.5m including debt. “We will focus on medical tourism,” Angel Angelov, a shareholder at City Clinic told Reuters, before confirming interest in attracting customers from the CSU and the Middle East.
April 22, 2016

Dunyagoz to strengthen its hospital network

Turkish ophthalmology group Dunyagoz, which runs 22 centres in Turkey and Europe, is expanding to neighbouring countries and beyond. It is looking at Iran and Russia and is launching two new hospitals in the Netherlands and Azerbaijan in June 2016. We speak to CEO Koray Ozbay about the group’s strategy.
April 18, 2016

Turkish ophthalmology chain targets Ghana as part of $50m investment

Turkish ophthalmology chain Batigoz Health Group, which already has clinics in several European contries, is planning to strengthen its presence in a $50m expansion. The group says it is about to receive private equity funding from a major Gulf investor and that it aims to reach Ghana by 2017. It also targets medical tourism. We speak to CEO Pinar Massena.
March 21, 2016

Doctoralia innovates across Latin America

In an unusual innovation, Doctoralia, the international rating and online booking platform, is partnering with patient associations and getting doctors to rate doctors as part of an awards programme. Owned by its Spanish founders, Doctoralia is now active in over 20 countries, particularly Latin America. It claims patients book 100,000 appointments a month on its platform. We interview Frederic Llordachs, co-founder of Doctoralia. This month, we are also writing a detailed survey of how such sites are developing in Emerging Markets from Chile to China.
March 11, 2016

FREE BLOG IHH takes over Bulgaria

IHH Acibadem’s planned takeover of two of the top three largest Bulgarian operators is interesting on two levels.
March 2, 2016

Acibadem charges into Bulgaria

IHH owned-Acibadem aims to create Bulgaria’s largest hospital group by buying the national chain, City Clinic, and the country’s largest private hospital, Tokuda, in an intriguing and complex deal. The move skilfully pre-empts radical change to the market, but could be highly unpopular, says Jivko Ivanov, managing partner at the local consultancy firm, Simbula.
March 2, 2016
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