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Members of the Dubai medical tourism club at the meeting

DHA holds meeting with Dubai medical tourism club members

DUBAI, February 23, 2015

Around 24 members of the Dubai medical tourism club convened to discuss important aspects of the Dubai medical tourism initiative and ways to promote, develop and sustain medical tourism in Dubai, UAE.

The meeting was chaired by Essa Al Maidoor, director general of the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), who said: “The idea behind the medical tourism club is to brainstorm and to receive feedback and suggestions from key industry experts so that the authority and the private sector can work together to promote medical tourism in Dubai."

"The goals of the medical tourism club include facilitating the Dubai medical tourism programme, promoting medical tourism services in Dubai and to collectively contribute to the Dubai medical tourism strategy by identifying new markets and services,” he said.

Dr Layla Al Marzouqi, director of the DHA health regulation department and director of the Dubai medical tourism initiative, said: “There is an eligibility criterion for membership. While facility, physician and clinical requirements are essential to ensure quality and capability of health facilities; key hospitality requirements are needed to ensure medical tourists and their family members are comfortable.”

“Requirements include faculty information such as international accreditation and certifications, number of years in service in this region, details of subsidiaries and branches; number of beds, physicians and nurses; physician and nurse ratio among others,” she said.

Al Marzouqi added that the authority also takes into consideration details of physicians working at the facility. “This includes number of full-time physicians offering medical tourism services, international certifications and training, years of work experience, number of visiting physicians and number of procedures performed per specialty. We take into consideration clinical indicators such as in-patient mortality, number of critical care services and patient satisfaction rate. We also look into hospitality services offered by the facility such as transportation services for medical tourists and family members, translators, air-ticket and hotel stay assistance, patient and family care.”

Of the 24 registered members, 15 are from hospitals, two are from day-care surgery centres and seven belong to multi-specialty clinics.

The members of the Dubai medical tourism club will meet on a monthly basis to discuss all aspects of promoting medical tourism in Dubai, it said. – TradeArabia News Service




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