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256 U N I T E D A R A B E M I R AT E S Y E A R B O O K 2 0 0 8Despite the impressive healthcare infrastructure already in placeAbu Dhabi Executive Council Policy Agenda 2007/2008 explainsthat as the healthcare needs of the population change, facilities andinstitutions must change as well: ‘Ageing facilities need updating,new, world-class institutions are require and the professionalworkforce, in particular needs to grow’.The Abu Dhabi government has, therefore, announced thefollowing major infrastructure investment projects to improvehealthcare provision in the emirate:Egyptian First Lady SuzanneMubarak (L) and Jordan'sPrincess Haya bint Al Hussein(R) wife of Dubai's RulerSheikh Mohammed bin RashidAl Maktoum, visit the RashedPediatric Therapy Centre inDubai, May 2007.Strategic partnershipswith the world's besthealthcare institutionsand professionals willeventually enable AbuDhabi to becomeone of the mostreputable healthcarehubs in the region.New Hospital at Al MafraqNew Hospital at Al AinOncology Centre of ExcellenceWestern Region InfrastructureGrant to Oasis HospitalHealth Information System (HIS)Renovation of Al Jazirah facilityNew wards Al Ain HospitalThe SKMC Cardiac ProgrammeDh 300 millionDh 300 millionDh 300 millionDh 230 millionDh 150 millionDh 140 millionDh 100 millionDh 25 millionDh 25 millionAttracting the world's best healthcare institutions and professionalsto the country through the forging of strategic partnerships is akey component of the government's new health policy, whichwill eventually enable the emirate to become one of the mostreputable healthcare hubs in the wider region.These relationships are already bearing fruit: for example, undera ten-year agreement between HAAD and the US-based JohnsHopkins Medicine, the latter assumed managerial and operationaloversight of the 469-bed Tawam Hospital, one of the UAE’s largestand most prestigious. As well as assessment of the hospital’s needsand implementation of management systems, the agreementincludes establishment of centres of excellence in a range ofspecialist clinical areas, access by healthcare professionals andpatients to the latest information from the Johns HopkinsHospital in Baltimore USA, and training of local medical staff.Tawam Hospital opened a new 20-bed, state-of-the art intensivecare unit, the largest in the country, in early 2007. It boasts the
S O C I A L D E V E L O P M E N T257latest in ICU technology and is set to become one of the UAE'sbest-equipped ICU's capable of providing world-class critical carefor all ages.The Imperial College London Diabetes Centre, which opened inAbu Dhabi in 2006, is the first initiative of a partnership betweenMubadala Development Company and Imperial College London.The centre is expected to become the leading diabetes resourcein the region.HAAD also signed a partnership agreement with Cleveland Clinicin 2006, ranked one of the top three hospitals in the USA, todesign and build a new pre-eminent, first-class specialty hospitalover the coming three years. In June 2007, HAAD entered into afurther agreement with the Cleveland Clinic in which it will takeover the management of the 550-bed Sheikh Khalifa Hospital(SKMC), the 120-bed Behaviour Sciences Pavilion, and the 100-bed Abu Dhabi Rehabilitation Centre, as well as more than 12specialised outpatient clinics and nine primary healthcare centresin various parts of the city.A four-year agreement has also been signed by HAAD withBangkok-based Bumrungrad International Limited (BIL) to managethe popular Al Mafraq hospital, which currently has an in-patientcapacity of 460 acute-care beds, plus 14 intensive-care and 14special-care baby unit beds, and is visited by an estimated 310,000patients, including more than 25,000 inpatients annually. Thehospital will be managed according to international clinical bestpractice and a new modern hospital building will be constructedon an adjacent site, replacing the current facility by mid-2011.HAAD has also signed a partnership agreement with ViennaUniversity, a renowned Austrian medical college and educationalhospital, and the Phamed Company, a leading Austrian healthprovider, to assist in developing the health sector in Al Ain. Thetwo prominent European institutions will manage the Al AinCentral Hospital and a new hospital will be built to internationalstandards, to replace the Central Hospital by 2011.In addition, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of PublicHealth is creating a specialised PhD programme tailored to theneeds and priorities of students in the UAE, which will be offered in@www.uaeinteract.com/healthThe Cleveland Clinic,ranked as one of thetop three hospitals inthe USA, will take overmanagement of the5550-bed SheikhKhalifa Hospital, theBehaviour SciencesPavilion, and the AbuDhabi RehabilitationCentre, as well as morethan 12 specialisedoutpatient clinics andnine primary healthcarecentres in Abu Dhabi.
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