16-Dec-15 Singapore-based Parkway Pantai, one of Asia's largest healthcare providers, is planning huge healthcare capacities in India, challenging leaders like Apollo and Fortis. Parkway, owned by the Malaysian sovereign fund-backed IHH Healthcare, is planning to add up to 5,000 beds in the next two years, half of this in India, said Dr Tan See Leng, managing director of Parkway and IHH. [image: Business Today]

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23-Nov-15 More than a quarter of the doctors in Singapore's public healthcare sector are foreigners. At the end of 2014 public hospitals and polyclinics had more than 2,100 foreign doctors and the number continues to grow as Singapore faces a shortage of trained medical staff. Most are primary care doctors, with only 477 foreign specialists. [image: ST / Yeo Kai Wen]

19-Nov-15 In a bid to upgrade the quality of medical staff in primary healthcare, the Indonesian government and 18 universities will begin providing specialized education to medical students and practitioners in 2016. There are 107,000 primary care physicians at present, with the government estimating it needs 40,000 to undergo training and education. [image: Indoboom]

11-Sep-15 China's State Council has issued a guidance on a hierarchical medical treatment system to direct resources to grassroots health institutions. According to the guideline, a system of hospital tiers with clearly defined roles will be established by 2017. Also, by that time the country should have a greater number of GPs, and standards at local hospitals will have risen. [image: China Daily]