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Health professionals in Nigeria push for universal coverage

Medical and pharmaceutical associations are urging Nigeria’s newly elected president Muhummadu Buhari to tackle the country’s limited health infrastructure and national insurance coverage. We speak to Segun Oguntoyinbo, managing director at healthcare consultancy Hanovia Medical, about the challenges.
April 14, 2015

RSBY to move into outpatient services

India’s national health insurance scheme for the poor, the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), is successfully piloting a shift into outpatient services according to Dr Nata Menabde, the World Health Organisation representative to India. Pilots in Gujarat, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab show “that it is indeed possible to use the RSBY machinery to finance outpatient services”.
March 31, 2015

Report: The investor landscape in the Emerging Markets

Here we name and categorise the major investors in private healthcare services in the Developing World and get their view on the opportunities and problems they face. Developing World healthcare services have suddenly become wildly popular. New listed investment vehicles, such as GCC-based Amanat and Asian Healthcare Group in Malaysia have raised hundreds of millions of dollars with the promise of investing in healthcare services. Meanwhile, established private equity houses are launching funds worth up to $1bn and large healthcare services operators from Indonesia to Egypt are carrying out heavily oversubscribed IPOs on very high multiples.
March 31, 2015

Qatar’s Al Ahli plans expansion

Listed-Qatari hospital group Medicare Group’s subsidiary Al Ahli Hospitals has announced plans to open a polyclinic in Al Wakra, south-east Qatar. This is its first expansion outside of the main Doha hospital.
March 24, 2015

New $100m hospital opens in Morocco amid healthcare reforms

The Moroccan government has this week decided to change its legislation so as to boost private capital for healthcare. Meanwhile, what will be the largest private multi-specialty hospital has just opened in Casablanca. Insurers are also consolidating the private hospital market in Morocco and the wider region.
March 24, 2015

Interview: Richard Ajayi, CEO Therapia Health

Healthcare service companies in emerging markets can tap into the knowledge and capacity of their opposite numbers in more developed markets. Therapia Health in Nigeria is a great example of this, with links to operators in Austria, Belgium, the UK, South Africa and India. Backed by a $5m investment from Abraaj, London-trained doctor Richard Ajayi has built an IVF clinic and lab chain and is now building a wider services platform.
March 24, 2015

French private hospitals worried over tariffs and ban on excess fees

The French government announced private clinics would see a 2.5% decrease in tariffs, against a 1% decrease for public hospitals. Lamine Gharbi, president of the Fédération de l’Hôspitalisation Privée (FHP), and Yves Noël, the president of Santé-Cite group, explain the concerns of private clinics.
March 12, 2015

Bupa to raise its stake in India

British private healthcare group Bupa is looking to expand quickly in India's fast-growing health insurance market once a rule change on foreign investment is implemented.
March 11, 2015
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