Italy's largest private hospital operator Gruppo San Donato (GSD) has raised a €265m loan from five Italian banks to go towards the construction of its new 16-story hospital in Milan.
Patient footfall for outpatient care across the world has all but stopped. Exclusive data from DocPlanner shows which specialities have seen the biggest drop in appointments booked and where telemedicine is really picking up some of the slack. We assess this against outpatient volumes in Singapore during SARS to see when it might pick up.
Care homes in Brazil are looking to avoid the mistakes made in Europe, and are lobbying government to ensure there are medical facilities available for elderly patients showing signs of COVID-19. If isolation within care homes in Europe didn't work, and it clearly hasn't, it will be impossible in Brazil they say.
We hear from Dario Beretta, who heads up the private hospital association of Lombardy. The region in north Italy has been battling a ferocious COVID-19 outbreak and is by far the worst-hit part of Europe. Beretta is also the general director the San Siro Clinical Institute in Milan, part of the country's largest private hospital operator Gruppo San Donato (GSD).
COVID-19 is forcing European laboratories to re-think where they test patients. Some are working with authorities to set up new ‘drive-through’ testing points, while others have closed more than half of their drawing points.
Global investment firm KKR has pulled out of a deal to take a majority stake in Spain’s biggest dental chain, Dentix, the company exclusively tells HBI. It is KKR's second high-profile decision not to invest in a large healthcare group this week.
Under-fire NMC is understood to be open to offers for its large European fertility group Eugin Clinic in what could be one of Spain’s largest PE transactions of the year.
In line with Korian's ambitions to become a 'one-stop shop' for elderly care, the company has acquired a 42% stake in Italian domiciliary and residential care provider Over, the services of which will be managed through an online portal.
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