Private healthcare markets in CEE/Southeast Europe are set to crash this year due to economic contractions at home and abroad, with many countries highly reliant on remittance money from abroad.
Funding reform in Ukraine has failed to bolster the country's primary care sector. An HBI analysis of NHS contracts shows public funding of Kyiv's for-profit clinics dropped 60% between 2019-20.
Nearly a third of all private equity-owned health care businesses in Europe have been held for at least five years, according to the new HBI Deals Pipeline tool. That suggests many private equity houses are struggling to sell on their investments.
The investment firm that sold Slovakia's largest imaging operator to Ribera Salud in 2018 has substantial expansion plans in three big CEE markets, its senior managing partner tells HBI.
The Ukrainian government has started to unveil how the country's hospital sector will operate when it's added into ongoing healthcare reforms at the beginning of next year. HBI explores opportunities for the private sector.
Dubai-based TVM Capital Healthcare has invested in a joint venture with a Ukrainian group whose founder pioneered a method of cerebral palsy rehabilitation. It is not the first Middle Eastern player to splash on East European rehab expertise.
In the last ten years, Russia has lept from 120th on the World Bank’s ‘ease of doing business’ scale to 31st, beating China, India and Turkey. Are worries about risk now over-inflated? Panellists at HBI 2019’s session on Russia and the CIS discuss.
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