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KKR targets NMC as Shetty and Butti asked to step back from company board

KKR has approached under-fire international healthcare group NMC Health with a view to making a takeover offer, NMC confirms. The London-listed firm has also asked founder BR Shetty its other major shareholder, Khaleefa Butti, to absent themselves from board discussions until their holdings have been clarified.
February 10, 2020

State-owned pharmacy buys minority stake in Swedish telehealth provider

Sweden's state-owned pharmacy Apoteket has bought a 20% stake in one of Sweden's smaller digital health companies Doktor24 from Investor AB. The move comes as the country's telehealth sector is under pressure to become more integrated with physical healthcare providers.
January 23, 2020

Shrey Viranna quits as CEO at Life Healthcare

The CEO of one of South Africa's big three hospital chains and the owner of Pan-European imaging chain Alliance Medical has stepped down to be replaced by the finance director Pieter van der Westhuizen, on an acting basis.
January 17, 2020

Delays in Oman for insurance and hospital construction

Private providers in Oman are still awaiting the introduction of mandatory insurance a year after the country's Capital Market Authority said it would be introduced. Experts suggest a new timeline of Q2 2020 but could construction news also point to further problems in both the public and private healthcare sectors?
January 15, 2020

Mayo Clinic launches first hospital outside the US

US Academic Medical Centre Mayo Clinic has become a shareholder and operator of a large public hospital in Abu Dhabi, UAE, its first outside of the United States. It confirms HBI's exclusive report in February, which the group denied at the time.
November 28, 2019

Aleris appoints new CEO

Pan-Nordic healthcare group Aleris has replaced its CEO, pinching the director of what is arguably the Nordic region's most successful example of healthcare outsourcing.
November 14, 2019

Another private hospital in the UAE closes down

The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has shut down a private hospital for three months, citing regulatory non-compliance without naming the facility. HBI sources indicate which one it might be.
October 31, 2019

Exclusive: Change at the top at Unilabs

Jos Lamers, 55, the man widely seen as the architect of modern-day Unilabs is moving away from a full-time role at the Pan-European lab and imaging platform, HBI can exclusively reveal. So what lies behind the move and who succeeds him as CEO?
October 14, 2019
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