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Interview: Ahmed Badreldin, Partner, The Abraaj Group

No other private equity house can match Abraaj’s experience of investing in healthcare services in the developing world. A lead investor in Turkish hospital group Acibadem, which was then sold to IHH, the international hospital chain, Abraaj has rolled out a lab buy and build in Egypt, Africa and the Middle East, has recently started a similar play building a Pan-North African chain of hospitals and has also invested in half a dozen hospital and outpatient clinics across sub-Saharan Africa. Ahmed will be speaking at Healthcare Europa 2015 on April 28 in London.

Report: Will big medtech follow Medtronic into services?

Will big medtech follow the IBM path from product supplier to service provider? No other medtech company has expanded as fast as Medtronic into services. Here, we look at what the company offers, as well as its plans for the future. We also talk to one of its new customers, and look at how far the big imaging groups are willing and ready to move into the service arena. What impact will this have on existing service providers?

Interview: Dr Hasan Kus, Healthcare Business Development President, Anadolu Group

A third of all sales at Anadolu Medical Center (AMC), a JCI accredited hospital in Istanbul with 209 beds which is affiliated to John Hopkins in the USA, now comes from healthcare tourism. Last year foreign patients rose to 5,400. The main hospital is not-for-profit and part of the Anadolu Foundation, owned by Anadolu Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the country, but plans are afoot to put the healthcare tourism arm into a for-profit operation. Anadolu has just constructed a 82 bed on campus hotel to take outpatients and their families and is planning to add outpatient facilities in Romania and other client countries. The campus will also soon boast a University facility for teaching doctors, run by Anadolu Foundation....

FREE BLOG Just how many medical tourists leave the US for treatment abroad?

Many claim the figure is in the region of 500,000 to 2 million. A new study "Medical Tourism Services Available to Residents of the United States" published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, which surveyed 45 agencies specialising in medical tourism concluded that the total number since these agencies started is around 13,500. This chimes with McKinsey research which puts the real number at 65,000 to 80,000...

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