The American Hospital Dubai is actively supporting Dubai’s efforts to build a medical tourism hub in the emirate, as the Hospital’s Centers of Excellence continue to attract increasing numbers of patients from outside the UAE, with patients from more 20 countries treated at the Hospital every year.
40% of patients treated at the Hospital’s Total Joint Replacement Center of Excellence in 2011 were from outside the UAE.
The American Hospital Dubai operates Centers of Excellence, from The Neuroscience Center to the Sleep Lab, reflecting the transformation of the Hospital into a specialist provider of highly specialised and advanced forms of tertiary care, through teams of specialist consultants who are all US board certified or equivalent.
The Hospital is increasingly developing these specialist practices into regional centres of excellence, reaching out to patients in the GCC, Nigeria and beyond.
In 2011, the Total Joint Replacement (TJR) Center of Excellence performed more than 1,000 surgeries on patients from 20 countries, and is one of the largest centers of its kind in the world. 40% of these patients were from outside the UAE.
Commenting on the Hospital’s medical tourism activity, Mr Thomas Murray, CEO of the American Hospital Dubai, said, “Over the last 16 years, the American Hospital Dubai has been developing its services in response to the needs of the Dubai community, the UAE and patients across the wider GCC region. This evolution of specialised tertiary services has helped attract patients from further afield and we believe this provides a good model for the Dubai healthcare sector, as it becomes the regional hub for world class healthcare services. Our TJR Center of Excellence is a great example of a successful regional center and we are actively sharing our experience in support of the goal of making Dubai a preferred destination for global medical tourists.”
As the Hospital celebrates its 16th anniversary, it is continuing the expansion plans of its Dubai campus, adding a further 240 beds, along with a recruitment drive that will add more than 20 Western board certified physicians in 2012. In the near future, the hospital will provide 384 beds and over 100 physicians.
source: http://www.ameinfo.com / Home> News> Company News / United Arab Emirates / Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
