Outpatient provider AAR Healthcare is to allocate $106m toward expansion projects in various locations across East Africa in the next three years. That includes a 100 bed hospital in Nairobi.
South Africa is embarking on an ambitious process of reform to redress its historic imbalance in healthcare delivery. The National Health Insurance policy envisions far-reaching change in both the payment and provision of healthcare. The enormously successful private sector, however, has been left in the dark over its future role. What does the future hold for this $30 billion private healthcare market?
BlueCloud Healthcare, a UK-based investment advisory firm and start-up business incubator focused healthcare service companies in sub-Saharan Africa, is tapping into private equity’s growing interest in the continent. Healthcare Nova spoke to founder Steven Adjei about the company and his take on investing in Africa.
What is really like to be a Minister of Health for an African country such as Tanzania where per capital healthcare expenditure is $41 compared to $9,000 for Switzerland? A fascinating session at Africa Summit saw ministers from Tanzania, Zambia and Ghana revealing all. Certainly, there are hiccups. Ghana saw its entire Medical Supplies Department […]
The two largest private equity investors in Africa, Abraaj and the Investment Fund for Health in Africa, are both raising new funds. So how are they progressing and what are their strategies? We investigated at the Africa Healthcare Summit in London.
An estimated 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired and 39 million are blind. More than 90% of blind people live in the Developing World where treatment is often scarce, expensive and inaccessible for many. Peek Vision – the Portable Eye Examination Kit – uses a smartphone and a clip-on adapter to carry out eye examinations. We talk to founder Andrew Bastawrous to find out more about Peek and ophthalmology in developing countries.
How is Apollo expanding its outpatient presence and building businesses in diabetes, maternity and diagnostics? We talk to Neeraj Garg, CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle Ltd (AHLL) about his chain of 90 clinics and about AHLL’s acquisition of Nova Speciality Hospitals, a chain of ten ambulatory surgery clinics. How will AHLL expand in India, the Middle East and Africa?
Many charitable donors are looking to use the private sector to deliver healthcare services to poor- and middle-income countries. Why? What are the potential road-blocks, and what does this mean for private operators? We report on a meeting on the subject, organised by the Center for Global Development, in London in January 2014.
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