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].

04-Oct-15 Cygnus Hospitals, which operates a chain of super speciality units in Delhi and Haryana, aims to add another 40 hospitals in north India in the next three years. The Delhi-based group currently has 10 hospitals in Delhi, Sonepat, Panipat, Karnal and Kurukshetra. [image: Cygnus Hospitals]

29-Sep-15 With International Hospitals Group’s support, Wanda Group will build, equip and commission a new 200 bed international standard hospital in Qingdao over the next three years. IHG will then operate the hospital under a 20 year lease until 2038. [image: PR Newswire]

24-Sep-15 Siemens Healthcare, which became a separate legal entity in 2014, expects to be a market leader in every segment of its industry, and the Chinese market will be a core part of this plan for the next decade. “We are now trying to increase our product portfolio, and keep on innovating to produce more affordable healthcare products,” CEO Bernd Montag said. [image: Siemens]

22-Sep-15 The Kuantan Specialist Hospital (KSH), a subsidiary of KPJ Healthcare Bhd, will open a RM100 mn (USD23 mn) hospital to upgrade its services and meet increased demand. The construction of the hospital started in 2012 and it is expected to start operations by year-end. It will have 188 beds. [image: Astro Awani]