Apollo presented its strategy to roll out new healthcare formats across India. This involves setting up clusters of mainly greenfield sites to penetrate new growth markets and to leverage its brand.
Saudi Arabia-based Al Borg Medical Laboratories, which claims to be the largest private lab diagnostics network in the GCC, is to buy the lab division of UAE group Anglo Arabian Healthcare (AAH).
National Reference Laboratory (NRL), a fast growing lab network in the United Arab Emirates, which has partnered with the Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), wants to become a regional player and is now looking beyond the UAE. We spoke to its marketing manager, Dr Bisera Laksinka.
Medicover, the occupational healthcare chain (Poland/Romania) and lab group (Germany and Eastern Europe) has unveiled plans to float on the Swedish NASDAQ.
Pan-European bioanalysis giant Eurofins has bought Hygel, a laboratory chain in the North Rhine-Westphalia, providing the group an entry into the German lab market.
Reheal Clinics, a new outpatient network based in cities near Delhi, is using external doctors to provide specialty telemedicine services. Its founder, Ankur Bharti, tells Healthcare Nova he already has a deal with hospital chain Medanta.
With outsourcing in the lab diagnostics sector expected to rise in mature markets, what does the picture look like in emerging economies? Abhishek Singh, chief of strategy at Valiance Health and Ankur Bharti, CEO of Reheal Clinics (both ex-PwC) tell Healthcare Nova that hospitals are increasingly like to seek external partners to help run their pathology business.
AsiaMedic, the Singaporean one-stop health screening and diagnostic healthcare provider, has entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement with the shareholders of LuyeEllium Healthcare, a hospital management service for hospitals business based in South Korea and China.
American multinational private equity giant KKR & Co is reported to be in talks with SRL Ltd, the large diagnostic centre and pathology lab chain based in India and five other Emerging Market countries.
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