Dubai: Dubai Health Authority (DHA) revealed that medical tourism insurance that covers up to $50,000 in case of emergencies will be offered as part of Dubai’s medical tourism initiative.
The insurance would include medical insurance covering all travel costs and health complications as well as the cost of emergency cases and return tickets — should a medical tourist need it.
DHA highlighted its plans and strategy at the Arab Travel Market (ATM) 2016 to attract 500,000 medical tourists by the year 2020, as part of ‘Dubai, a Global Destination for Medical Tourism’ project at ATM, which was launched by Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai. As part of the Dubai Health Experience (DXH), DHA recently launched a first-of-its-kind website that has all the relevant medical tourism services including medical tourism packages, booking tickets, buying medical insurance and hotel booking etc under a single portal known as www.dxh.ae.
The insurance is activated as soon as the booking is made through DXH’s website.
Dr Laila Al Marzouqi, Director of Health Regulation and Dubai Medical Tourism Project, said that the exhibition provides a great platform to promote Dubai as a preferred destination for medical tourists, especially as it has one of the fastest growing tourism sectors in the world and is ranked fourth worldwide as the most visited city in the world. DHA promoted Dubai, as a medical tourism at the exhibition by highlighting is latest innovative services.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to use the DXH.ae website and smart application at the DHA stall and learn about the packages and services available at Dubai 26 hospitals, which include but are not limited to surgery, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, dental, treatments and specialised tests, to name a few.
