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Billions of dirhams must be spent on providing healthcare for the citizens by Dubai Gulf governments due to increasing cases of diseases such as cancer and diabetes. The latest World Health Organization (WHO) study showed that Gulf countries spend around $18 billion on healthcare facilities. And as a result of the population expected to increase [...]
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A panel of expert healthcare professionals and media representatives observed that public private partnerships (PPPs) have a dominant role in driving the sustainable growth of the Middle East healthcare sector, at the third GE Healthcare Middle East Media Summit in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi. Healthcare professionals from around the Middle East region converged to [...] According to a senior official of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH), the new strategy of the government to boost private investment in the health sector would result in better healthcare services in the country at competitive prices. The SCH has entered into a strategic partnership with the private sector to run the new hospitals and [...] As GHI moves into its second phase of acquisitions, CEO Mark Adams calls for healthcare regulators to drive quality for a more patient-centered approach and increased public benefit. ” With a limited public health system in place and poor underlying health conditions, GCC regulators need to prioritise the needs of patients” said Adams. ”Quality versus cost [...] Dubai Health Authority (DHA) will participate in the InnovHealth – Middle East Healthcare Innovations Summit, hosted by business information group naseba, in Abu Dhabi on April 25th-26th. The DHA aims to raise awareness for Tuberculosis (TB) in the region. The DHA is keen to use InnovHealth 2010′s strategic platform to reach a selective audience of leading [...] The GCC healthcare industry is expected to grow threefold to $47 billion to $55bn in the next 10 years, Alpen said, but asserted that this growth will not be possible until the governments clear some roadblocks. “Although demand side factors spell confidence, the industry faces several supply-side constraints. Low private sector participation, sub-optimal health infrastructure availability [...] The first successful positive cross match (PXM)-desensitization living donor kidney transplantation was performed lately at Sheikh Khalifa Medical city (SKMC), managed by Cleveland Clinic, a SEHA healthsystem facility. Since the Multi-organ Transplantation program at SKMC commenced in February 2008, 21 kidney transplants have been performed. The 50 year old patient, Abdul Ameer (Quality Surveyor), suffered from [...] Health Authority – Abu Dhabi Announces 1st International Abu Dhabi Diabetes Congress. Today the Health Authority – Abu Dhabi (HAAD), the regulatory body of the healthcare sector in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) confirmed that they will host the1st International Abu Dhabi Diabetes Congress (ADDC), at [...] The Health Authority – Abu Dhabi (HA-AD), the regulatory body of the healthcare sector in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA), to improve standards and practices of information security and safeguard the IT infrastructure at the Authority against cyber crime. The MOU was signed by [...] The Dubai Health Authority recently held a workshop to discuss ways to address the issue of tuberculosis and prevent new cases of the disease in the country. Mr Essa Kazim, CEO of the Health Policy and Strategy Sector at the DHA mentioned during his opening speech, the importance of the role played by the various stakeholders [...] |
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