Healthcare
International SOS And Iqarus Announce Joint Venture Partnership
International SOS, the world's leading medical and travel security risk services company, and Iqarus, a leading supplier of intelligent and integrated health care for demanding and complex atmospheres, have today introduced a joint endeavor partnership to take advantage of shared capabilities and services.
The partnership will certainly operate as 'Iqarus, In Organization with International SOS', and will certainly see the businesses work together to improve strategic procedures throughout key service lines.
The businesses will certainly collaborate to establish International SOS Offshore and Occupational Health Centres and Consulting procedures and Iqarus' Occupational Health Centre of Excellence - both based in Aberdeen. They will certainly likewise operate in partnership across International SOS' government Medical Providers business and Iqarus' procedures in the very same area.
As part of the contract, business will certainly incorporate experience in Aberdeen to develop a market leading centre of excellence and innovation in overseas job-related medical care. This will enhance local capacity and global assistance for North Seas clients in the oil and gas industry.
It will likewise make it possible for business to develop and create additional value in agreements and solutions to supranationals, Governments, IGOs, militaries and NGOs operating in hard and difficult settings. As a result of this, the joint venture will also have the ability to develop innovative public private health care initiatives to attend to the demand in geographic markets freshly available to the global economic climate.
The joint venture will certainly be led by Tim Mitchell, CEO of Iqarus. Based out of global head office in Dubai, it will certainly link flawlessly into the global reach of the International SOS Support and Aero Medical Emptying services.
Mitchell stated: "By creating this market leading offering, we will be able to deal with the quickly growing demand for innovative medical care initiatives in nations presently underserved by existing health care infrastructure. This partnership will certainly likewise allow us to provide higher quality and even better value for our customers - producing a company which rests at the very heart of innovation and excellence within our industry."
Laurent Sabourin, Group Managing Director, International SOS, included: "This joint venture forms part of International SOS technique to form alliances, collaborations and joint endeavors to offer ideal in course services to our clients. International SOS masters determining and owning effective joint endeavors and collaborations to complement and reinforce our wholly had International SOS procedures. We remain fully commited to grow our Medical Services business in the extractive and various other markets from its current 900 countries in 90 nations worldwide."