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Saudi hospital group may sell 30% stake

Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital (DSFH), the owner of one of Saudi Arabia’s largest private hospitals may sell a 30% stake through an initial public offering (IPO).

Indian chain Narayana gets equity boost from CDC

Narayana, the revolutionary low cost Indian hospital chain, has had had an equity injection of some $47.5m from CDC, the UK development bank. Founder and majority shareholder Dr Devi Shetty, the Henry Ford of heart surgery, wants to grow from 5,000 beds to 30,000. We talk to David Easton, head of healthcare at CDC, about the deal.

French groups create new healthcare insurance giant

A new player in the French complementary health insurer market with nearly a fifth of the market and covering 11m customers is to be created by the merger of two mutual insurers. The move heralds the creation of a chain of 348 outpatient health centres. Healthcare Europa talks to the directeur-generale of one of the merging groups.

Interview: Neeraj Garg, CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle

How is Apollo expanding its outpatient presence and building businesses in diabetes, maternity and diagnostics? We talk to Neeraj Garg, CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle Ltd (AHLL) about his chain of 90 clinics and about AHLL’s acquisition of Nova Speciality Hospitals, a chain of ten ambulatory surgery clinics. How will AHLL expand in India, the Middle East and Africa?

Private healthcare in Dubai can learn from education sector: Colliers

Private healthcare could learn some lessons from private education when investing in Dubai as most groups fail to do their homework before moving into the Gulf, Mansoor Ahmed, Director of Healthcare, Education and PPP at Colliers International told Healthcare Nova journalist Rhiannon Williams.

Sweden’s Praktikertjänst faces uncertain future

Shareholders of Sweden’s largest primary care and dentist firm Praktikertjänst (PTJ) are about to face a drastic rise in their income tax – it could be as high as 58% – after purchasing shares at a lower rate than market value. Healthcare Europa journalist Lee Murray spoke to PTJ CEO Johan Fredriksson, and former Director of PTJ dentistry Per Rehnberg, now CEO of dental organisation Coloseum Smile Group, about the future of PTJ.

Merger creates new Finnish giant

Finnish dentistry-to-elderly care player Mediverkko and acute care-to-elderly care group Mehilainen are to merge to create a group with sales of €400m in 2014. We talk to the new CEO Mediverkko’s Janne Jarvenpaa.

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