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Akbar Travels, through its medical tourism division, TravoCure, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Thumbay Medical Tourism (TMT), a unit of the renowned Thumbay Healthcare Division. This collaboration aims to strengthen medical tourism services and provide seamless healthcare solutions for international patients. Thumbay Medical Tourism has been a leading provider of affordable and high-quality healthcare to patients from over 175 nationalities, offering top-tier medical services through its network of hospitals and specialized healthcare facilities in the UAE. TravoCure, owned by Akbar Travels, is dedicated to facilitating medical travel for patients seeking advanced treatments and wellness solutions globally. Under this partnership, Thumbay Healthcare will extend exclusive benefits to TravoCure-referred patients, including an exclusive discount on medical treatments. Additionally, the agreement covers the promotion of Thumbay University Hospitals’ services, organization of medical check-up camps, and collaboration on academic and clinical research initiatives. “This partnership marks a significant step in enhancing medical travel services for international patients,” said Ms. Ashiya Nazar, Chief Executive Officer of Akbar Travels. “Through this collaboration, we aim to provide world-class healthcare solutions with seamless travel arrangements for patients worldwide.” Mr. Akbar Moideen Thumbay, Vice President of Thumbay Medical Tourism, emphasized, “Thumbay Healthcare has always been at the forefront of medical tourism in the region. Partnering with Akbar Travels will further expand our reach and enable patients to access high-quality and affordable healthcare with greater convenience.” A dedicated collaboration committee will oversee the implementation of this agreement, ensuring the smooth activation of joint projects and services. The MOU is reinforcing the long-term commitment of both organizations to developing the medical tourism sector.

The Thumbay Group has vowed to support the goal of securing 500,000 health/medical tourists to Dubai by 2020. This was revealed at the recently-concluded 4th Annual Health & Medical Tourism Conference held at Hotel Hyatt Regency – Dubai Creek Heights and organised by Thumbay Medical Tourism in association with Thumbay Hospital. The conference brought together industry experts from healthcare, travel, medical tourism and medical education sectors. The half-day event highlighted the latest trends and developments in medical tourism and explored ways to boost health tourism the UAE. Speaking at the conference, Dr. Layla Mohamed AlMarzouqi, Director Dubai Health Tourism Council, said that Dubai is well-positioned to achieve its goal of welcoming half a million international patients by 2020, thanks to the support of key players in the private sector like the Thumbay Group, which announced its plans to attract 1,000 tourist per day to its facilities across the UAE. Dubai currently ranks number 1 in the Arab world and 16th globally, based on the 2016 Medical Tourism Index. In 2016, the number of health tourists visiting Dubai reached 326,649, an increase of 9.5 per cent compared to 298,359 the previous year. Top medical and health treatments sought by visitors to the emirate were orthopedics, dermatology, dental, fertility, health and wellness, ophthalmology and aesthetics. Akbar Moideen Thumbay, Vice President of the Healthcare Division of Thumbay Group, reiterated the conglomerate’s commitment to Dubai’s plans of becoming an international hub for health tourism, by adding three new hospitals, five clinics, 15 pharmacies and five diagnostic labs to its existing network.

The 3rd Annual Conference on Health and Medical Tourism – Brand UAE, organised by Thumbay Hospital and Gulf Medical University, was held at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Dubai. The theme for this year was nurturing partnerships and exploring opportunities. Spokesperson from Gulf Medical University reiterated that they are making efforts to create a new workforce in this sector in keeping with the vision of the government of Dubai to make it a destination or a hub for health tourists from around the world. Chief Guest for the event was H.E. Dr. Amin Al Amiri; Assistant Undersecretary for Medical Practice and License Sector Ministry of health, UAE with Guest of Honour was Thumbay Moideen; Founder President, Thumbay Group UAE. At the event leading medical tourism experts from UAE were honoured with special awards of honour and recognition and the third batch of graduates from the medical tourism facilitator course also received their certificates at the event.