Initiatives launched to attract more medical tourists to the UAE

Thumbay Group plans to attract 1000 medical tourists a day across its healthcare network.

Thumbay Group plans to attract 1,000 medical tourists a day to its facilities across the UAE. Thumbay has launched several initiatives to support medical tourism, including an exclusive Marhaba lounge service for patients coming from abroad, priority appointments in the group’s medical facilities, and fast-tracked services including administrative and medical procedures.

Thumbay plans to add three new hospitals, five clinics, 15 pharmacies and five diagnostic labs to its existing network in the UAE.

The Thumbay network of academic hospitals is now the largest network of private academic hospitals in the Middle East, treating patients from 175 countries. It will have a total of 1000 beds in the UAE, 1500 beds in India and 750 beds elsewhere in the Gulf and Africa by 2022, taking the total number of hospitals to 15 worldwide.

Thumbay also operates a chain of family clinics (Thumbay Clinic) and multispecialty day care hospitals (Thumbay Hospital Day Care) in the UAE as well as diagnostic labs (Thumbay Labs) and pharmacies (Thumbay Pharmacy) in the UAE and India. The existing hospitals and clinics are in Dubai, Ajman, Sharjah, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah and Umm Al Quwain in the UAE and in Hyderabad—India.

Thumbay Medical Tourism promotes healthcare services to international patients, and has ties with 87 countries through representative offices.