Dubai logs high doctor-resident ratio as the emirate scores above many countries
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Dubai has huge potential as a world class centre for medical tourism, according to a new report that pits it against other major global cities.
The demand for healthcare services has more than matched population growth for a decade, reveals the Hub Report from property consultants Knight Frank.
Even so, Dubai still ranks at the low end of a league table that compares eight leading medical tourism destinations in terms the number of hospital beds for every 1,000 people.
France, the leader, has six times the number of hospital beds for its population compared to Dubai, while Hong Kong has five and Australia nearly three.
Dubai now has two beds for every thousand of the population, an increase of nearly 14 per cent since 2012, thanks to the support of the Government in “creating an investor friendly environment”, Knight Frank concludes.
It adds: “Comparing Dubai in terms of number of beds…we see that there is significant potential for growth in the healthcare centre.”
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In the lead up to the 2016 fiscal year, the Dubai Health Authority’s (DHA) initial expectation was to attract 170,000 medical tourists during the year. However, fuelled by the success of the creation of the Dubai Health Experience (DXH), a brand conceived by the DHA to build strategic partnerships with both the private and government sector to strengthen Dubai’s position on the world’s medical tourism map, the government has reported that this milestone was exceeded and the ambitious goal of attracting 500,000 medical tourists to the emirate by 2020 is fully on track.
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