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Interview: Dr Nelson Gitonga, CEO of Insight Health Advisors

With experience of supporting the private sector, NGOs, development partners and the Kenyan Government, Dr Nelson Gitonga is well versed in the Kenyan health system. Right now, his services are likely to be in high demand. The country’s healthcare market is buzzing with foreign entrants and local players looking to cash in on a period of rapid growth. In this interview, Gitonga puts recent developments in their historical context and points to some areas of common oversight.

Flint Atlantic Capital invests in dialysis in Rwanda

The Nigeria-based fund Flint Atlantic, which specialises in healthcare start-ups, co-invested with US-based Polaris Capital in the Rwandan dialysis group Africa Healthcare Network (AHN) last week. AHN is growing fast but the market is constrained by labour shortages and affordability. We discussed AHN’s potential to broaden access with Nneka Ezeigwe, vice president at Flint.

Austerity bites in Abu Dhabi

Gulf states are targeting waste in their health systems as the low oil price places government budgets under strain. Co-payments, quotas and VAT may become commonplace in an industry not previously known for having to make economies, and the damage is already showing on operators.

Life Healthcare on a $1bn European hunt

Life Healthcare wants to spend up to US$1bn in a European country, where English is the business language, and is open to occupational healthcare, dialysis, mental health, oncology and more.

Fresenius Medical Care to launch 200-clinic network in India

Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) is to grow its service platform in India after buying the country’s second largest clinic network Sandor Nephro Services. It is hoping to launch a large 200-clinic network and to obtain PPP contracts for centres in district hospitals, according Jan Walter, SVP Central Asia Pacific for Fresenius Medical Care.

Indian renal care provider NephroPlus wins state PPP contract

Indian low-cost dialysis network Nephroplus is to provide dialysis sessions in 13 new centres attached to district hospitals in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh under a PPP contract. The group is now planning to raise $15m (100 crore) to fund new expansion plans that would double its network.

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