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Johannesburg - South African private hospitals group Medi-Clinic is considering further expansion in the Middle East, seeking to boost its presence in the oil-rich Gulf states, its new head said on Thursday.
"Abu Dhabi is the next growth area and we are keeping our lines in the water and there are opportunities there," the company's new CEO Danie Meintjes said in a telephone interview with Reuters on his first day on the job.
Meintjes, who has been with company for 25 years, replaces Louis Alberts, who expanded the Cape Town-based firm into Europe and the Middle East in company-transforming deals.
But Meintjes said there were no plans for such "quantum leaps" in the near future.
"I have been part of the strategy and what we've achieved today, and I don't think there's any need for a big strategic change at this stage," he said.
"Growing the company on an incremental basis is what we would like to see."
Medi-Clinic already runs two hospitals in the Middle East and also operates in Namibia, Switzerland and South Africa.
- Reuters