13-Jul-17 The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has launched the BIMSTEC Telemedicine Network, linking health professionals from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan, Nepal, and Thailand, and encouraging them to interact and share knowledge. [image: ET Healthworld]

11-Jul-17 Total health care spending in Asia today stands at about USD1.3 tn. By 2030, that's going to grow to about USD4.3 tn, growing at about 15 percent per annum," says private equity firm Quadria Capital. [image: BSIP / UIG / Getty Images / CNBC]

10-Jun-17 India's Northeast region can become a healthcare hub for Southeast Asia, Minister Kiren Rijiju said, "we can create a medical hub for our neighbours... Myanmar people want to come to North East for medical treatment". [image: ET Healthworld]

23-May-17 DKSH, the biggest player in the Myanmar healthcare market, and the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim have signed an agreement to provide Myanmar patients better treatment options in vascular disease, arterial hypertension, cancer and diabetes. [image: DKSH]

16-Mar-17 N Health, a unit under Thailand's BDMS hospital group, has launched a medical laboratory in Yangon, Myanmar, with local partners, to tap growing opportunities there. Since the civilian government started in 2011, health expenditures have risen over 10 times and this is just the beginning," said Dr Win Zaw Aung, managing director of Sea Lion Group. [image: Bangkok Post]