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Real estate costs too high in Brazil, suggests Senior Assist CEO

Real estate prices scared off the major elderly care group Senior Assist International from entering Lat-Am’s biggest market. In conversation at the IFC conference earlier this month, Bart Vanderschrick, CEO of Senior Assist, said his group had looked at expanding into Brazil last year but found the cost of real estate was too high to make its business model viable.
May 24, 2017

Medical schemes thrown lifeline in SA

South Africa’s government faces a dilemma between ditching the single-payor single fund model of its National Health Insurance (NHI) policy, or offering the management of the scheme to the private sector. We heard more about this at the IFC conference in Barcelona last week.
May 24, 2017

Acibadem in talks with Saudi government

Saudi Arabia’s government wants the Turkish giant Acidadem and others to run hospitals once they’ve been privatised, we’ve heard from a source within the Andalusia hospital group.
May 24, 2017

Rx Health making waves in East Africa

Egyptian fund Rx Health Management is closing in on deals in Tanzania and Kenya, says the chairman of the African Health Federation (AHF). Healthcare entrepreneur Dr Amit Thakker told Healthcare Nova at the IFC Global Healthcare Conference in Barcelona earlier this month that Rx Health was in talks with groups in the two east African countries.
May 24, 2017

Good news for Abu Dhabi operators

The Abu Dhabi government had made a U-turn on its July 2016 decision to impose a 20% co-pay on private services for Thiqa cardholders. It has also lifted all IVF-related restrictions. This is good news for private operators present in the emirate, including NMC and Mediclinic.
May 11, 2017
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