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FREE BLOG The growth in Chinese medical tourism

A fascinating study from consultants L.E.K. suggests that we will see rapid growth in healthcare tourism from China. Healthcare Nova believes that outbound tourism could transform the prospects for private operators across the region and beyond.

Report: Medical tourism – Chinese patients proliferate internationally

In 2015 there will be more than 100m outbound trips of Chinese from Mainland China, a number that has doubled in just 5 years despite a structural slowdown in GDP growth. This wave of humanity and wealth is transforming the global tourism and aerospace industry for sure, but it is also having some profound effects in other, perhaps less obvious, sectors. Helen Chen and Stephen Sunderland of L.E.K. Consulting in Shanghai analyse the market.

KIMS & Saket City up for grabs

The Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), a network of hospitals and outpatient centres in South India and the GCC, is for sale. Big national players are also eyeing up Saket City Hospitals in Delhi.

Report: Private Healthcare in Mexico – Hotting Up

Mexico boasts a large, innovative and vibrant private healthcare sector, which sits alongside a developing, but somewhat chaotic public sector. We look at the major players in the private sector, as well as at new innovators seeking to cut the cost of treatment to reach the masses.

Rwanda to become medical tourism hub

Twenty years after the genocide that killed 800,000, Rwanda has managed to create a multi-tiered efficient healthcare system, building capacity from the inside. With 95% over the population covered through universal health insurance and an established network of operators, Rwanda now wants to attract more foreign investors –and medical tourists.

Newly branded Avivo Group plans $300m expansion across five Gulf countries and 2017 London IPO

Pan-Gulf expansion could be the new business model for big private operators. We talk to Amitava Ghosal, the CEO of Avivo, the new name for Healthcare Mena, the operator backed by private equity house Al Masah Capital about his plans. He wants to expand out of the UAE and Kuwait and into Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia with a specialist outpatient clinic chain. Future steps include hospitals and SE Asia.

Vithas buys stake in Juaneda

Vithas, the fourth largest Spanish hospital group has bought a 10-15% stake in Juaneda, the main hospital operator in the Baleriac Islands for €12.5m.

Report: All listed healthcare service companies active in Emerging Markets

Here we present the first comprehensive list of all 57 quoted healthcare service companies which are active in Emerging Markets. The list includes companies headquartered in the Developed World, who have interests in Emerging Markets, such as Air Liquide, Fresenius or Ramsay Health Care, as well as quoted operators from the region, such as IHH, Apollo or Integrated Diagnostic Holdings. It covers everyone from Chilean hospitals to Egyptian lab operators and from NYSE quoted operators in China to big groups in Malaysia and Indonesia.

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