NE health co GNRC gets debt from Avendus Fin
Mumbai: Financial services group Avendus is providing Rs 75 crore as structured debt to promoters of the Guwahati-based healthcare provider GNRC, reaffirming the growing confidence of investors in low-cost affordable…
Fitness centre Medifit & Fix My Nutrition to merge
NEW DELHI: Bengaluru-based fitness centre Medifit Consultants is investing in and merging health and beverage company Fix My Nutrition into its own operations. Although the deal size was not disclosed,…
CBI gives rare clean-chit to Vyapam accused
BHOPAL: CBI has given the clean chit to Rajasthan’s Arun Kumar Nimawat, a medical intern at Jhalawar Medical College, who was booked by MP STF as a ‘middleman’ in the…
Sequoia India MD, VT Bharadwaj resigns, to start independent fund
MUMBAI: MUMBAI: VT Bharadwaj, a managing director at the India unit of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital fund, Sequoia Capital, has quit the firm. Bharadwaj’s departure comes less than a…
ET exclusive: Manipal-TPG sweetens Fortis deal terms to win investors vote
TPG Capital-backed Manipal Hospitals has decided to sweeten the terms of its offer to acquire the hospitals and the SRL Diagnostics unit of Fortis Healthcare after institutional and minority shareholders…
Panels vetting organ donation must look for donor safety too
NEW DELHI: Hospital panel vetting organ donation requests must bear in mind that it is not only looking at the interest of the donee/patient but also at the well being…
Doctors and engineers need to join hands to bring frugal innovation into the country: Dr. Naresh Shetty
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Dr. Naresh Shetty, President, Ramaiah Memorial Hospital, Bengaluru to know more about the role that technology can play in improving healthcare management by way…
VLCC to open 50 institutes in India; plans to go international
New Delhi: Beauty and wellness firm VLCC is on the expansion spree with a target to add 50 new training institutes in India over the next five years. The company,…
In Alwar, an NGO helps the comatose live with dignity
NEW DELHI: Shantanu Lodh, a pioneer in performance arts, was in the prime of his career when he met with an accident two years ago which left him in a…
Arun Jaitley admitted to AIIMS, to undergo surgery today
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was on Friday admitted to AIIMS and is scheduled to undergo a kidney transplant operation today, sources said. Jaitley, 65, has been suffering from…
