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Interview: Dr Richardson Ajayi, CEO, Bridge Clinic

In many Emerging Markets, entrepreneurs face the same journey from a business based entirely on the reputation on of a single doctor to the development of a corporate. Here we look at how Dr Richardson has built Nigeria’s largest fertility clinic and lab chain and his plans to build a complete integrated healthcare platform.
November 27, 2015

Aetna reconfigures international model around killer app

US insurer Aetna has developed a customer app which is part of a wider strategy to reconfigure healthcare services around the world, particularly in Emerging Markets. We talk to Richard Di Benedetto, president of Aetna International.
November 27, 2015

LGC process shows industry convergence in the lab space

UK lab group LGC is being sold by Rothschild with several private equity houses and industrials in the frame. The interest shows that the food, environmental, clinical testing and diagostic lab spaces are starting to converge.
November 27, 2015

Huge market for genetic testing in India

Arranged marriages and caste separation are driving inherited disease in India, says Sam Santhosh, the CEO of MedGenome which claims to be the country’s biggest genetic laboratory group. MedGenome expects to double sales in 2015 and claims its prices are a quarter of those charged in the USA.
November 9, 2015

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.
November 5, 2015

Reactions to the new Polish government and the sad tale of a healthcare reform that backfired

Private operators are throwing weary sighs at the prospect of a majority PIS government in Poland. The new statist, right-wing government has yet to announce the new Minister of Health but the PIS manifesto includes a pledge to regionalise healthcare expenditure, closing the National Health Insurance Fund. Meanwhile, operators are hoping that the new government will deal with a disastrous attempt to get more cancer tests faster.
November 2, 2015

Lux Med buys diagnostics specialist Euro-Clinic

Bupa-owned Polish provider and insurer Lux Med buys Euro-Clinic. Based in Krakow, Euro-Clinic’s diagnostic laboratories will allow Lux Med to further integrate its service offering.
October 30, 2015

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.
October 30, 2015

The mating endgame at Unilabs

We hear that Labcorp, the big US lab group is the latest potential bidder to kick the types at Unilabs, the Pan-West European lab group which Rothschild has put on the block. We analyse the bidders in an endgame of consolidation.
October 26, 2015
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