Singaporean telehealth company Doctor Anywhere has fully acquired Catalist-listed Asian Healthcare Specialists, a multidisciplinary medical care group.
The latter offers a wide range of specialist services, including anaesthesia, dermatology, family medicine, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otorhinolaryngology, rehabilitation and urology, across 12 clinics in Singapore.
Its 14 medical specialists, one family physician and one physiotherapist will be absorbed into DA’s growing network of 3,000 GPs and specialist doctors.
WHY IT MATTERS
According to DA, its latest acquisition is part of its endeavour to meet the rising demand for specialised treatment across Southeast Asia. It will continue to seek synergistic opportunities and targeted acquisitions of critical healthcare assets across the region to further its work on building a technology-enabled regional healthcare ecosystem.
This announcement also comes as the startup closed a $38.8 million Series C1 funding round led by Novo Holdings. The proceeds from this extended investing round partly funded the acquisition of
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