07-Oct-15 Thonburi Hospital Group (THG) has expanded its presence in China through two USD800 mn investments with three Chinese firms in recent weeks. In 2013-14, THG entered into JVs in Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hainan and Kunming, investing USD2 bn, but in a new strategy it will now find local partners for each part of China in order to expand more rapidly. [image: The Nation]

07-Oct-15 The Chinese government will build 100 hospitals and clinics across Africa as part of a plan to improve health systems. "Learning from the EVD [Ebola Virus Disease] crisis, Chinese and African leaders in the health sectors fully support a new, well-funded, and functional international response system to manage future pandemics," said South Africa's Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi. [image: CP Africa]

05-Oct-15 India plans to set up two medical devices parks to facilitate the sector's growth, which is currently at a nascent stage. The government has identified 400 acres near Chennai and 100 acres at Hyderabad for the parks. The domestic market is worth $6.8 bn, but only one-third is locally manufactured. India also exports $1 billion of medical devices. [image: Business Standard]

04-Oct-15 Apollo Hospitals will open four more hospitals in India in the coming months, taking its total bed strength to over 10,000, Chairman C Prathap Reddy said. Stating that India needs 100,000 additional beds every year for next decade, he said there was need for new hospitals to meet the huge demand. [image: ET Healthworld]

02-Oct-15 Portea Medical, India’s largest medicalised homecare group has just expanded to Malaysia and is actively looking at other South East Asian markets, linking up to hospitals, labs and potentially insurers. “We do provide medical services in retirement communities, but we... want to remain focused on homecare, post-operative care and chronic disease management,” said CEO Meena Ganesh. [image: TechCrunch].