An international diagnostic services provider is setting up a clinical laboratory in Myanmar for the first time. Healthcare Nova talks to Dr. Win Zaw Aung, managing director of Sea Lion Group - investor in the BDMS-owned new new lab.
Swedish social and elderly care services provider Ambea has announced its intention to float on Nasdaq Stockholm. The final decision is to be taken by the board “very shortly”, says Fredrik Gren, CEO of Ambea.
Central-European investor Penta has taken a 90% stake in Nemos, a chain of three Czech hospitals with annual sales of one billion crowns (€37m), after a long-running negotiation.
Big nursing home and elderly care group Ambea plans to IPO on the NASDAQ Stockholm. Expect other big Nordic operators to follow suit. But what is their long-term future?
Another prestigious US not-for-profit hospital group plans to open in London. That's on top of Cleveland Clinic's opening in Grosvenor Square and German group Schoen, which will open its hospital in 2017. So who is it and how could it enter?
Shareholders of Italian not-for-profit operators the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) and the Monzino cardiology centre have rejected a €250m offer from the country’s largest providers San Donato and Humanitas and are instead in the process of appointing an international advisor to help evaluate its future.
Pan-European diagnostics imaging provider Affidea has opened a €4m hospital in Belgrade last December and is planning to launch more facilities in other major cities in the next two years. We take a closer look at the company’s plans.
The Philippines has tremendous potential. It has one of the world’s fastest growing economies, and yet it doesn’t have many large healthcare service providers and it lacks a medical infrastructure sufficient to cope with all its residents’ needs. Healthcare Nova looks at the current market there, government policy, and how the private sector is changing.
With political uncertainty and concerns over the value of the Lira, investors in Turkey are facing a tricky decision. Should they stay or should they go? Healthcare Nova catches up with Turkish doctor Omer Karahan, a partner at healthcare consultancy Value Health.
MPHHI, Filipino conglomerate MPIC’s hospital arm, is to launch a network of primary care centres. The group, whose net income surged 41% to P1.8bn (US$40m) in 2016, also wants to add a minimum of 10 hospitals to its network in the next five years, some of them from scratch – a departure from its usual buy-and-build growth strategy.
Healthcare Business International users cookies to improve the functionality, performance, and effectiveness of our communications. Detailed information on the use of cookies is provided in our Cookies Policy. By continuing to use this site, or by clicking "I agree" you consent to the use of cookies.