Warburg Pincus has sold its 27% stake in Metropolis, the third largest Indian diagnostic lab chain, to the Shah family who run the business. Metropolis is also active in a half a dozen African countries and the UAE.
Dialysis operator Diaverum recently entered Khazakhstan with the acquisition of Nefros Asia. The deal is Diaverum’s first in Asia, outside of the Middle East. We talk to Diaverum president Dag Andersson.
No one can rival Cercone’s expertise running and consulting on private healthcare service groups across the Developing World. In this wide ranging interview, we look at insurance trends, how hospital and diagnostic chains are growing and what the combination of information transparency and international hospital chains will look like in a few years time.
The failure rate is high for big, operator-led PPPs in the Developing World. Big PPP projects where private players win a long-term contract to run a large public hospital or deliver primary and secondary care to hundreds of thousands for a per capita price often fail, But hundreds of less formal, more ad hoc projects are working well.
The minority shareholder in AGEL, the big Czech and Slovak hospital group wants to sell or buy the entire group. But AGEL sources say majority owner Tomas Chrenek won't sell and is looking at opportunities internationally.
International expansion within the healthcare services sector is happening at speed. The last month has seen Spanish hospital group Hospiten announce its acquisition of five hospitals on the Mexican pacific coast from Amerimed, Ramsay Healthcare announce a joint venture in China and Interhealth Canada get the go-ahead for the first operator-led PPP in Eastern Europe at Zywiec in Poland. But all of this is to look at internationalisation through a Western prism.
In the developed world in private healthcare every country is different. Oddly enough, that may be less so in the developing world - just look at laboratories.
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