Mitsui also plans to form strategic links between other regional portfolio companies and hospital operator Columbia Asia, an offshoot of US-based Columbia Pacific Management.

Conglomerate Mitsui & Co invested $101m in Columbia Asia, a Southeast Asian subsidiary of US-headquartered healthcare provider Columbia Pacific Management, today.

Columbia Asia oversees a network of 27 hospitals and one clinic across India, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia, having opened the first in 1996.

The company claims to be the largest hospital operator in Asia to run its business in several countries under a single brand, and also one of the few to build most of its hospitals.

The Mitsui…