Dubai ruler launches 5-year strategy to boost healthcare

Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum on Tuesday launched a five-year health strategy to bolster the emirate’s healthcare sector.

Noting that Dubai is facing a challenge to improve its healthcare services, Sheikh Mohammad said the new strategy aims to “establish Dubai as a main medical destination in the UAE and the wider region where one billion people are living around us,” according to a statement released by state news agency WAM (see link below).

Aimed at revamping the health sector, the new strategy features four main approaches, six objectives, 15 programmes and 93 initiatives, all of which are set to achieve a leap over the next five years.

"The emirate of Dubai is facing a five-year challenge of improving healthcare services and rising to our ambitions and aspirations for establishing Dubai as a main medical destination in the UAE and the wider region where one billion people live around us," Sheikh Mohammed said after he approved the health strategy.

The four approaches include health and lifestyle, excellence in providing service, smart healthcare, and governance.

The strategy is aimed at achieving six goals - ensuring a healthy and safe environment for Dubai’s people, ensuring the provision of a high quality comprehensive and integrated health service system, achieving innovation, improving efficiency in providing health care, and creating an integrated database to be used for the smart government policy in taking decision.

Source: http://english.alarabiya.net

Further info: http://www.wam.ae