PharmAccess Foundation, the pioneering Dutch NGO which has lent money to 1,000 for-profit clinics across Africa and launched an innovative mobile health payment scheme in Kenya is now working closely with governments.
We talk to the COO of Dubai's first university hospital which is being launched by Saudi group Fakeeh Care. Fatih Mehmet Gul discusses what his company's first UAE foray will specialise in, where the national market is heading and how soon the whole population will have mandatory health coverage.
It is ironic that conferences on best practice in healthcare are dominated by Americans – the people who have the world’s most dysfunctional healthcare system. Israel and Taiwan are much better bets. So how do they do it?
Joseph Priel, the founder of Euromedic which became Affidea, and the company's former Croatia CEO Dr Ivan Svajger have joined forces to consolidate the Balkan nation's fragmented acute care sector. We talk to Svajger about the market opportunity in the EU's newest member state.
After months of delays, consultancy AlixPartners has been hired by Abraaj to oversee the separation of its $1bn Abraaj Growth Markets Health Fund (AGHF) and find a long-term manager to replace the embattled group.
Private equity investor Mid Europa has entered the Serbian private healthcare market for the first time, with the acquisition of hospital operator MediGroup. We speak to a partner at seller Blue Sea Capital.
Falck, the world's largest emergency services group which had 10.88bn Dkr (€1.45bn) of revenue from ambulances and health services, has defined its core businesses. Two businesses are "undergoing strategic reviews". There are rumours that majority shareholder, Lundbeck Foundation, might sell off the entire group.
Multiple contacts have told us that the Kenyan healthcare market could be in a bubble, with increasingly excessive valuations which could lead to a "correction" in the next 3-4 years. We put this to the chairman of one of the country's largest hospital groups.
Stripping away M&A and financial things like indebtedness, all for-profit healthcare businesses will succeed or fail based on these three parameters. And all can be measured along them, too.
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