Medical Tourism

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Medical Tourism E-Health Opportunities Dubai
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Dubai Tourism

• Dubai is already seen as a major tourist
  destination, attracting tourists from around the
  globe
• In 2003, nearly 5 million tourists visited Dubai
• The hospitality and tourism industry was
  responsible for about 18 percent of the emirates
  gross domestic product (GDP)
• In the next four years Dubai hotels will have
  12,000 additional rooms, with several
  international hotel chains making their debut in
  the emirate

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Dubai Tourism

• Dubai has a long term objective to attract 15
  million visitors by 2010 their presence will
  create substantial demand for healthcare and new
  medical facilities.
• At present, 106 airlines operate at Dubai
  International Airport, providing connections to
  145 destinations
• A world-class hospitality infrastructure, already
  in place in Dubai, can lend support for smooth
  development of medical tourism
• Medical Tourism industry is one of the fastest
  growing multi billion dollar market worldwide. In
  the Arab World many untapped opportunities exists
  for medical tourism
• Globalization and economic liberalization are
  giving further support for medical tourism

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Medical Tourism - Product

• Medical tourism can be broadly defined as
  provision of cost effective private medical
  care in collaboration with the tourism industry
  for patients needing surgical and other forms of
  specialized treatment
• Medical tourism is like any leisure product where
  service components like airlines, hotels, travel
  companies, transportation, food outlets are
  offered and medical treatment at the best
  hospitals
• The medical treatment for various ailments are
  packaged with recuperative leisure packages at
  world class tourist resorts

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Countries Promoting Medical Tourism

• Medical tourism is being actively promoted in
  Greece, South Africa, Jordan, India, Malaysia,
  Philippines, Thailand and Singapore
• Countries like Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand,
  where health care services are being promoted
  overseas alongside tourist destination, have
  attracted more than 600,000 patients in 2003
• Thailand alone generated some US280 million in
  revenues from treating 308,000 foreign patients
• In 2002, 109,000 Arab patients traveled to Jordan
  for medical treatments, with each spending on an
  average US5,500, leading to an estimated total
  US600 million
• Healthcare hospitality projects in the Arab world
  have the advantage of lower costs compared to
  those in the US and Europe, which when coupled
  with high quality service, can attract a large
  share of patients from the region who seek
  treatment abroad

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Medical Tourism Market

• Madar Research forecasts the Medical Tourism
  market in Dubai to be close to one billion
  dollars by 2012
• With world class healthcare infrastructure like
  Dubai Health Care City in place this figure could
  be easily achievable

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Healthcare Indicators

• Population 4,000,000 end 2003
• Life expectancy at birth (2002) 74.6 years
• GDP per capita (US) 2003 19,748
• Public health expenditure ( of GDP) 2001 2.6
• Private health expenditure ( of GDP) 2001 0.8
• In 2003,the Federal Government allocated US0.5
  billion for healthcare in UAE
• The Department of Health Medical Services
  (DOHMS) has a budget of about 0.38 billion for
  the year 2004
• According to statement from DOHMS, the private
  health sector in Dubai is set to provide 70
  percent of health services in the next ten years

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Dubai- Healthcare at a Glance

• Health care services in Dubai started in 1943
  with a health center in Al Ras and in 1951 saw
  the opening of Al Maktoum Hospital
• Mid nineties saw the opening of major private
  sector hospitals like the American, Welcare and
  Belhoul hospitals
• Though the private sector contribution to the
  medical care started a decade ago, the public
  sector is still the major health care provider in
  Dubai

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Breakdown Public Private Sector
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Dubai New Hospital Projects

• New 100 bed hospital by International Private
  Hospital
• 75 bed hospital by New Medical Center
• 300 bed hospital by Saudi German Hospital
• 300 bed hospital planned by Welcare Hospital at
  Dubai Health Care City
• New Dubailand Sports City hospital is being
  planned in a tie-up with Germanys Helios
  hospital group
• The Belhoul Group, jointly with the French
  company Accor, is building the first wellness and
  hydrotherapy centre on Palm Jumeirah island

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E-Health

• E-Health is "the leveraging of the information
  and communication technology (ICT)
• To connect provider and patients and governments
  
• To educate and inform health care professionals,
  managers and consumers
• To stimulate innovation in care delivery and
  health system management and,
• To improve the health care system"

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Telemedicine

• The use of information technology to deliver
  medical services and information from one
  location to another as defined by World Health
  Organization
• Emirates Hospital was the first to provide
  telemedicine services in Dubai, but other
  hospitals are expected to provide similar
  facilities in the near future
• MOH, which introduced telemedicine in Al Mafraq
  Hospital (Abu Dhabi) in association with Mayo
  Clinic Minnesota, has plans to introduce similar
  services at Al Baraha Hospital in Dubai

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Telemedicine - Market

• MedMarket Diligence estimates that in 2003 there
  were 169 million telemedicine care visits, or
  telemedicine information exchanges between a
  practitioner and patient, resulting in payments
  of 6.28 billion.
• Estimate of the worldwide market for
  telemedicine, as published by the Canadian
  government through Industry Canada, for the year
  2000 stood at 1.125 trillion. This prediction
  was based on a much broader set of market
  segments than is traditionally analyzed, and yet
  still seems to be an amazingly large number for
  telemedicine. Beyond clinical care services, this
  report included peacekeeping and battlefield
  applications, professional backup, consumer
  health information, continuing professional
  education, and management of healthcare delivery.
  
• Cap Gemini Ernst Young predicts that the global
  telemedicine market will grow sharply from
  USD2.04 billion in 2000 to USD7.29 billion in
  2004.

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Conclusion

• If development goes according to government
  plans, Madar Research expects Medical Tourism to
  flourish in Dubai during the next 8 years, to
  become nearly US1 billion industry in 2012
• Telemedicine, as a product and a service, is
  expected to take off in Dubai in coming few
  years, to be worth tens of millions of dollars in
  2012