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FREE BLOG Shock therapy for Nigerian healthcare

Private investment in Nigerian healthcare has recently on a bit of a high. There were few investors or groups with an emerging market presence that were not linked with the market. But, with its economy relapsing into self-harm, we weren’t sure what to expect from our investigation.
September 8, 2016

Vietnam to liberalise healthcare investment

Vietnam's National Assembly admitted a proposal to remove barriers to foreign investment in healthcare on 1 September 2016. This could open up sectors like laboratory services and cosmetic surgery.
September 8, 2016

First private imaging centre in Iraq

The Iraqi German Functional Imaging Clinic is opening Iraq's first private imaging centre in Baghdad in October 2016. The centre's gamma camera was uninstalled from a previous location in the United States in partnership with imaging group American Allied Imaging. Ibrahim Al Butaihi, a nuclear medicine consultant at Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam, Netherlands, will lead the project.
September 8, 2016

Fresenius Medical Care to launch 200-clinic network in India

Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) is to grow its service platform in India after buying the country’s second largest clinic network Sandor Nephro Services. It is hoping to launch a large 200-clinic network and to obtain PPP contracts for centres in district hospitals, according Jan Walter, SVP Central Asia Pacific for Fresenius Medical Care.
September 8, 2016

PAI and SAR waiting to resume negotiations

Private equity house PAI Partners put negotiations to buy 100% of Spain's largest care group SARquavitae on hold in late July. Sources told Healthcare Europa that the price has already been set at €500-550m, roughly 15x EBITDA. But there are discrepancies on how to formalise the agreement. We're still waiting for official talks to resume after the summer, which otherwise could close this very month.
September 8, 2016

South Africa: NHI, bye bye?

Rumours are circulating in the South African press that the landmark National Health Insurance policy, which proposes to expand subsidised health insurance to the whole population, is to be scrapped or radically altered. The tabloid Noseweek reports the Treasury will not allow the White Paper to become policy, as it’s “completely unaffordable under current or foreseeable circumstances.”
September 8, 2016

Finland to open €11-12bn primary/social care market to private operators

The centre right Finnish government is embarking on a reform which radically expands patient choice and which effectively “privatises” public sector providers, leaving them to compete on a level playing field with private operators. We talk to operators about the changes and hear from advisors who express a more sceptical view.
September 7, 2016
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