Fatma Al Sharaf delivers a speech yesterday at the World Health Tourism Congress at the Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Academic Medical Centre, Health Care City in Dubai.
Dubai attracted 260,000 medical tourists in the first half of 2015, up 12 per cent from the same period a year ago, according to a Dubai Health Authority (DHA) official.
“Around 40 per cent of [the medical tourists] are from outside the country,” Linda Abdullah Ali, head of the medical tourism office at the health regulation department of the DHA, told reporters at the 10th World Health Tourism Congress in Dubai on Sunday. Details