India’s Medanta to open hospital in Dubai

DUBAI // A 250-bed hospital is expected to open in Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC) in early 2017, to offer improved care for patients in need of specialist treatment.

Medanta Hospital will offer broad-ranging specialities, including cardiology, orthopaedics, neurology, oncology, and liver and renal transplants.

The development is being completed in tandem with DHCC and Indian health care provider Medanta. It will be Medanta’s first UAE hospital.

It is hoped the facility will capitalise on Dubai’s growing medical tourism industry and replicate the success of Medanta’s hospital at Gurgaon, near New Delhi. Between 2009 and March 2014, the hospital completed more than 150,000 procedures and surgeries. Up to 20,000 international in-patients have been treated since 2010.

Dr Raja Easa Al Gurg, vice-chairwoman at DHCC, said: “As Dubai steadily gains recognition for providing world class health care and establishing itself as a medical tourism hub, we have witnessed an increasing number of medical tourists year on year. Part of our strategy is the focus on high quality, specialised health care. The establishment of Medanta at DHCC is an indicator of the strength of strategic partnerships and channelling of efforts to meet the demand for specialised medical treatments in the emirate and beyond.”