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Medical tourists “will return to Egypt”

Dr Ismail Aboul Foutouh, the CEO and founder of IVF centre Bedaya Hospital, gives Healthcare Nova an overview of the biggest IVF provider sector the Middle East and says why he believes there will be a revival of medical tourism in the country.

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.

Foreign investors open up Iran

Sila Grup, which is a Turkish operator and consultancy, is reported to have signed an MoU with the Iranian Ministry of Health to invest US$1bn in the country.

Dunyagoz to strengthen its hospital network

Turkish ophthalmology group Dunyagoz, which runs 22 centres in Turkey and Europe, is expanding to neighbouring countries and beyond. It is looking at Iran and Russia and is launching two new hospitals in the Netherlands and Azerbaijan in June 2016. We speak to CEO Koray Ozbay about the group’s strategy.

Iran is looking toward the private sector

Iran is considering options to develop more healthcare PPPs as it prepares to emerge from the shadow of sanctions. It has already made extensive use of PPPs to provide primary care in urban and suburban settings.

Specialist care for people with intellectual disabilities remains special for adaptable providers

Small group homes in the community have long since become the norm for state paid care for people with intellectual disabilities, at least in western Europe. This gave private residential providers long term residents at attractive margins. But this relatively straightforward model has seemed under threat as policymakers and funders have pushed for more individualised services. By Adam Scott and Dr Vishaal Virani of Mansfield Advisors.

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