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TPG, KKR emerge as contenders for Abraaj’s healthcare fund

Opportunity India Desk Aug 03, 2018 - 1 min read

Two leading investor firms, Buyout firms TPG and KKR & Co have turned as the vying firms to run Dubai-based private equity firm Abraaj’s troubled $1 billion healthcare fund, three sources familiar with the matter said. The two firms are about to start due diligence, as they have complete reach to the healthcare fund’s virtual ...

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mfine brings ‘mfine ONE’, a unique healthcare subscription plan

Opportunity India Desk Sep 06, 2018 - 1 min read

mfine, an AI-powered, on-demand healthcare service, has launched ‘mfine ONE’, a unique healthcare subscription plan. Priced at Rs 3,499, the subscription plan provides a complementary baseline health checkup as well as unlimited access to best doctors for the entire family. mfine ONE is an annual/half-yearly subscription plan that allows users to monitor their health and ...

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Academicians & Activists condemn decision of government to ban e-cigarettes

Opportunity India Desk Sep 07, 2018 - 2 min read

Academicians and activists have expressed concern on the advisory issued by the Union Government to all state governments on banning of e-cigarettes without any evidence to substantiate the decision. Globally, 55 countries have legalized the sale of nicotine e-cigarettes and e-liquids as consumer goods. These nations view vaping as a much safer harm reduction alternative ...

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PM Narendra Modi to launch healthcare scheme from Jharkhand

Opportunity India Desk Sep 22, 2018 - 1 min read

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious healthcare scheme 'Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana' will be launched in Jharkhand. Under this scheme, more than 10 crore families will be provided health insurance worth Rs 5 lakh each, every year. It aims to offer health insurance to 10.74 crore poor families. Modi will roll out the scheme on September ...

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Trivitron Healthcare looking to clock revenue of around Rs 750 crore in FY19

Opportunity India Desk Oct 08, 2018 - 1 min read

Trivitron Healthcare, the domestic medical devices maker, is eyeing revenue of around Rs 750 crore in the current fiscal year. In the last fiscal year, the Chennai-based company had posted revenue of around Rs 650 crore. GSK Velu, Chairman and Managing Director, Trivitron Healthcare, said, "We are looking at a revenue of around Rs 750 ...

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Private healthcare companies to provide services at government civil hospitals

Opportunity India Desk Oct 19, 2018 - 1 min read

Private healthcare firms may soon offer services at government civil hospitals across small towns and in semi-urban areas.  NITI Aayog has unveiled guidelines and the model concession agreement for roping in private healthcare companies to provide instruments, infrastructure and manpower at government-operated district hospitals across India for the treatment of non-communicable diseases.  The guidelines come just ...

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Hyderabad-based eKincare designs integrated healthcare benefit platform

Opportunity India Desk Nov 19, 2018 - 1 min read

eKincare, a Hyderabad-based company, has designed an integrated healthcare benefit platform driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data science. The AI-powered personal health assistant of eKincare reads medical data from health records, predicts health risks and provides timely personalised recommendations to beat certain crucial medical risks. Recently, the company bagged Series A funding of $1.5 ...

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Conference on Future Healthcare in India concludes with Promise of Inclusive Delivery

Opportunity India Desk Dec 04, 2018 - 2 min read

With the aim of providing a platform for educating and enabling open discourse on the state of tomorrow's healthcare systems, leading health sector management University, IIHMR, concluded the 23rd edition of its flagship annual event, Pradanya 2018. The theme for this year's event was "Re-imagining Healthcare: Yesterday's Dream, Tomorrow's Reality". A wide range of topics ...

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Shalby Hospital Bags FICCI Award for Medical Value Travel in Joint Replacements

Opportunity India Desk Dec 07, 2018 - 1 min read

Ahmedabad-based Shalby Hospitals has won the Medical Value Travel Specialist Hospital Award 2018 in the category of “Orthopaedics – Joint Replacement” given by FICCI during the Advantage Health Care India 2018 summit, jointly organized by the industry body FICCI and the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India. Dr. Vikram Shah, Founder & CMD, ...

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Healthcare network Oxxy eyes setting up India's largest hospital chain

Opportunity India Desk May 08, 2019 - 1 min read

Oxxy, a leading healthcare network, is looking to build India's largest hospital chain. It also eyes to expand its presence in key cities. Oxxy has said that 'ByGod Hospitals' has aggregated more than 20 hospitals in the national capital region. It further plans to expand into Mumbai and Bengaluru. Pankaj Gupta, Founder of Oxxy, said, "The vision is to become India's ...

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