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COVID-19: Lockdowns and travel restrictions hit emerging market hospitals

Nationwide lockdowns and travel restrictions are hitting private hospital chains in India, Turkey and Southeast Asia, where the biggest groups garner 10-15% of revenues from international patients. HBI talks to an India-based source to find out more and looks at how operators are faring.

Investors for Health opens door to all serious emerging market investors

All emerging market health-care investors are welcome to join Investors for Health (I4H), a newish community of 30+ investors including development banks, private equity, venture capital and impact funds. The group aims to jointly focus on private healthcare development in emerging markets with a focus on equity and alignment with universal healthcare cover. It next meets at HBI 2020, April 20-22, London. Its formation reflects a quiet revolution in the role of for-profit healthcare and its importance in bridging the World Health Organisation's estimated $686bn funding gap in low-and-middle-income countries to achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal #3 (“Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”).

SRL shifts focus to B2C as minority sale stalls

Fortis-owned Indian lab chain SRL says that after the last two years of "stagnant expansion" it has started to open more blood collection points in a shift to the B2C segment. The company remains tight-lipped about the ongoing minority sale process.

IHH looking to sell outlying assets

The new CEO of IHH Healthcare is considering divesting some assets as he shifts strategy to focus on geographical clusters. Which of its 80 hospitals could face the block? HBI examines.

Indian healthcare budget “meagre and insignificant”

HBI hears India's healthcare budget has disappointed operators and commentators alike and fallen short of what the country needs to achieve all its UHC ambitions. Announced last week, it was meant to double to 2.5% of GDP, but will only reach 1.15%. We speak to a senior executive at an operator source and break down what's changed and what the system still requires.

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