Dubai Health Authority (DHA) is set to partner Nigerian and other African doctors to avail Nigerians and others opportunity for top-notch healthcare services in Nigeria and Dubai.
To this end, officials of DHA are embarking on road show called ‘Dubai-Africa Partnership for Better Health’ mid this month to create awareness for the state-of-the-art healthcare services available to Nigerians in both countries.
In a statement, the ‘Dubai-Africa Partnership for Better Health’ road show/event will bring together medical and hospital organisations with a range of profiles in terms of specialist focus areas like paediatrics, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, cardiology, neuro surgery, among others.
“A brainchild of the DHA, the ‘Dubai-Africa Partnership for Better Health’ aims to promote partnership between the health and medical sectors in Dubai and Nigeria, and attract 500,000 international medical and hospital organisations (MHO) from around the world to the UAE by 2020.”
The Dubai Health Authority, Dubai Health Experience, and the local UAE Embassy officials, according to the statement, will also be on hand at the event to meet with key stakeholders in the Lagos healthcare industry as well as prospective customers.
The road show would also extend to other African countries. “The Africa road show, comprising a series of legs and focusing on different regions of Africa, will kick off with Lagos in March 16 and move to Accra, Ghana on March 19.”
The statement further said that subsequent legs of the road show would follow in East Africa, visiting Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Nairobi in Kenya; Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa, and will finally culminate in Morocco, North Africa.
Launched in March 2008, the Dubai Health Authority is a government organisation overseeing the health system of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai Health Authority (DHA) provides a quality healthcare system in Dubai by setting and ensuring policies and strategies for healthcare in public and private hospitals and clinics in Dubai.
DHA works to ensure that public health is protected and quality of life is improved, provides health strategy for Dubai to meet future needs, ensures partnerships between public and private health service providers, provides licensing and regulation across the Dubai health sector and strives to increase the transparency and accountability of the healthcare system in the emirate.
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