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Apollo launches homecare division in three Indian cities

Apollo Hospitals becomes the latest group to launch medicalised homecare services, a sector that sees increasing demand and players. The new platform with an investment of $8m, will initially be based around three large Indian cities and then rolled out to others.

Interview: Terri Bresenham, CEO, GE Sustainable Healthcare Solutions

Terri Bresenham has just been appointed CEO for GE Sustainable Healthcare Solutions, the new division which covers all sales to India, South Asia, Africa and South East Asia. We talk to her about how she sees these markets developing, GE plans to invest $300m and how GE is partnering with the private sector and payors.

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Report: All listed healthcare service companies active in Emerging Markets

Here we present the first comprehensive list of all 57 quoted healthcare service companies which are active in Emerging Markets. The list includes companies headquartered in the Developed World, who have interests in Emerging Markets, such as Air Liquide, Fresenius or Ramsay Health Care, as well as quoted operators from the region, such as IHH, Apollo or Integrated Diagnostic Holdings. It covers everyone from Chilean hospitals to Egyptian lab operators and from NYSE quoted operators in China to big groups in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Abraaj’s Global Healthcare Fund may miss $1bn target

Abraaj has raised $250m for its Global Healthcare Fund, but should make it to $400m, according to investor sources. A second close is likely at $750m but Abraaj is unlikely to hit the $1bn target it had planned in 2014.

Interview: Helmut Schuehsler, Chairman & CEO, TVM Capital Healthcare Partners

In 25 years TVM Capital, the business where Schuehsler is at the helm, has invested over $1.5bn in life sciences. Yet, five years ago, he took the remarkable personal decision to move from Munich to Dubai and to build a completely new arm to invest in healthcare services in Emerging Markets. Since then, Dubai-based TVM Capital Healthcare Partners and co-investors have invested some $150m in five investments, ranging from Egypt to India. He is now raising a third fund of $300m for another dozen investments.

Interview: Dr Mark Kurtser, chairman, MD Medical Group

Shares in MDMG, the largest Russian player in obs, gynae and paediatrics have crashed 70% since its listing on the London Stock Exchange in 2012, yet there doesn’t seem a lot wrong with the half year results with sales up 36% at RUB 4.52bn ($70m) and EBITDA ahead 29% at RUB 1.25bn ($20m) in the first half of 2015. Kurtser, once chief obstetrician and gynaecologist of the city of Moscow and the go-to-doctor for the Russian elite, has built the business from scratch and still owns 68%.

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