Healthpoint, Abu Dhabi, targets medical tourists

Abu Dhabi hospital, Healthpoint, will expand its capacity and services to attract medical tourists in 2017. The hospital will increase the number of beds to 78 in the first quarter of 2017.

Abu Dhabi hospital, Healthpoint, will expand its capacity and services to attract medical tourists in 2017.

Based in Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi, the hospital will increase the number of beds to 78 in the first quarter of 2017, including five beds for its new paediatrics centre and 10 for treating obese patients. Currently, it has 44 inpatient beds for its 21 clinical departments and services. All of its rooms are single occupancy.

The hospital expects to open the paediatric wing as well as expand its cosmetic surgery centre and the ear, nose and throat clinic by the second quarter.

Its current focus is to stem the flow of patients travelling outside of Abu Dhabi but during 2017 it aims to attract more international patients.

The specialist orthopaedics centre, the Abu Dhabi Knee and Sports Medicine Centre, and the bariatric and metabolic surgery centre all already get patients from across the Gulf.