Vietnam healthcare news & reports

State led investor consortium buys into Vietnamese hospital group

Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC is leading a consortium buying into Vinmec, a not-for-profit hospital operator in Vietnam. This is the state investor's first investment into healthcare.

February 11, 2021

HBI 2020: Emerging Markets – local trumps medical tourism

The IFC said at HBI 2020 that medical tourism in emerging markets is unlikely to normalise until the end of 2021. Providers say they are already doubling and tripling plans to build in domestic markets, rather than bringing patients to tourism hubs.

December 21, 2020

Columbia Asia’s buyer seeks loan to finance deal

The co-buyer of Columbia Asia's Southeast Asian hospitals, conglomerate Hong Leong Group, is reportedly looking to raise a $385m (1.6bn RM) loan to finance the deal.

November 28, 2019

Quadria Capital seeks exits from Vietnam and India

Quadria Capital is reportedly looking to exit its investments in Vietnam's FV Hospital and India's Medica Synergie.

October 10, 2019

Columbia Pacific Management sells Southeast Asian business and targets Africa

Seattle-based Columbia Pacific Management has agreed to sell Columbia Asia's Southeast Asia hospitals for $1.2bn cash and has kicked off a separate sale process for the Indian hospitals, sources familiar with the matter tell us. It is also planning to replicate its Asian success story in Africa, starting in Kenya, HBI can exclusively reveal.

September 19, 2019

Big hospital deals in Asia close to completion

A deal to buy pan-southeast Asian hospital group Columbia Asia has reportedly been agreed, while The Philippines' largest private hospital group's dual-track process is rolling on with a prospectus filed and second-round bids in.

September 12, 2019

Interview: Julian Andriesz, CEO, Verita Healthcare

The massive latent demand to live longer is being tapped by a new generation of health care providers. British entrepreneur Julian Andriesz, 53, made a first fortune building business in SE Asia and got into prevention after watching his mother die of ovarian cancer, diagnosed late. He says his intention is to help his clients, whether they are healthy, have cancer or auto-immune diseases, to live longer, better lives. Verita has a chain of 10 clinics, believes its digital health disease prevention and management platform is about to become the largest in the world and owns IP, and research and manufacturing in Europe, Asia and Australia.

September 12, 2019

“Two bidders left” for $2bn Columbia Asia

The sale process of pan-Asian hospital group Columbia Asia could have just two bidders left, we are told, while the Wall Street Journal lists three.

July 4, 2019

Columbia Asia process “on track and going well” as CEO departs

The sale of pan-Asian hospital group Columbia Asia is "on track and going well" despite the surprise announced departure of its CEO Dr Kelvin Loh, who will join larger competitor IHH Healthcare at the end of the year.

May 30, 2019

Ramsay’s Indonesian JV “puts in aggressive bid” for pan-Asian hospital network

Two trade buyers and sovereign wealth funds have reportedly joined private equity firms in the process to acquire pan-Asian hospital group Columbia Asia. We hear which one of the trade buyers is really in the running and which isn't.

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