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This edition delves into the burgeoning investment landscape of Poland's healthtech market. Telemedicine stands out as a pivotal sector driving healthcare innovation, complemented by a vibrant ecosystem of healthcare startups within the country. Additionally, we thoroughly explore the infrastructure gap in Brazil.
Investment in Poland's Healthtech: Just What the Doctor Ordered
By Biliana Hristova, EMIS Chief Editor
Technology offers promising avenues for improving access, efficiency, and quality of healthcare at a time when Poland’s health system is dealing with persistent issues such as personnel shortage, out-of-pocket expenses, and long wait times. Telemedicine is emerging as a pivotal sector in healthcare innovation and there is a thriving healthcare startup ecosystem in the country. The main areas of venture capital (VC) investments in Poland were in healthtech solutions, which attracted a total of EUR 168mn in disclosed investment through a total of 274 transactions over 2019-2023. The government also recognizes the importance of healthtech and has revealed plans to allocate EUR 1bn for digital health projects and a further EUR 273mn for medical and health research and development projects.
Poland's healthcare system grapples with persistent challenges, compounded by longstanding issues of underfunding and exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic laid bare the deficiencies of the system, impacting nearly every citizen. One of the major challenges is the severe shortage of medical staff, with Poland exhibiting a notably lower doctor and nurse-to-population ratio compared to other EU member countries. As of 2022, Poland reported only 3.4 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, trailing behind the EU average of 4.1 per 1,000, as shown in a report by the European Observatory of Health Systems and Policies, published in September 2023. Similarly, the report shows that the density of nursing personnel in Poland falls short, with just 5.7 nurses per 1,000 inhabitants, in contrast to the EU average of 8.5 per 1,000.
These shortages contribute to higher rates of preventable mortality in Poland, surpassing the EU average, while progress in reducing mortality from treatable causes has stagnated since 2014. Even before the pandemic, access to healthcare services was hindered by long wait times for medical appointments and burdensome out-of-pocket expenses. This is reflected in a decline in life expectancy at birth, which decreased by 0.6 years from 2019 to 2022, settling at 77.4 years, significantly below the EU average.
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Brazil Closing the Infrastructure Gap Thematic Report
With its 8.5bn square kilometres and 202mn inhabitants, Brazil is the world’s fifth largest country by territory and the seventh largest by population, creating a massive demand for infrastructure assets, whether for transportation, sanitation, energy, communications, or other.
A World Bank report valued Brazil’s infrastructure deficit at around BRL 4bn, of which more than half corresponded to the transport sector (53%), followed by the energy (24%), water and sanitation (12%), and telecommunications (11%) sectors. According to the report, the country needs to invest about 3.7% of its GDP per year into infrastructure endeavours to close this gap, far from the 2% of GDP it was expected to invest in 2023.
For more insights download our sample report Brazil Closing the Infrastructure Gap Thematic Report.
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