US insurer United Health has agreed a friendly deal to buy Banmedica, the integrated payor provider that covers Chile and has moved into Colombia and Peru. The deal values Banmedica's equity at US$2.8bn.
Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund is interested in investing in the region's healthcare sector. Khazanah was the main backer of Pan-Asian hospital group IHH - and remains a big shareholder.
The global outsourcing group Sodexo has named India a strategic market for its healthcare business and claims there are opportunities in facilities management.
The world needs to produce more surgeons than have ever lived in the next decade. That statistic highlights the massive medical shortage that the world faces today. Our annual Siemens Healthineers survey found that staff shortages were the number one problem for private operators in Emerging Markets and the second most important in Europe.
French nursing home behemoth Orpea has announced two joint ventures with fellow countryman Philippe Austruy’s holding company, SIS Group, that will see 2,000 nursing home beds built in Brazil and 1,000 in Portugal over the next 2-3 years. We talk to Orpea and to its Brazilian rivals.
News on a fascinating Indian deal involving AI, Brazilian deregulation and Mediclinic's CEO stepping down. This month, we also interview the managers of major operators in India and Mexico and the man starting a new healthcare REIT in South Africa.
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