The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has entered into a pact with global digital payments company Visa to improve the emirate’s competitiveness as a health tourism destination.
Visa will work in cooperation with its bank partners to provide cardholders with a set of exclusive discounts on medical services provided by members of the Dubai Health Experience (DXH) through the health tourism website www.dxh.ae.
Visa cardholders will be able to choose between a range of medical services and procedures, book appointments with doctors, and plan their treatment itineraries.
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two on the collaboration envisages phased implementation of the activities.
The first phase targets Visa cardholders from Kuwait to benefit from discounts on services in six clinics and hospitals in the UAE.
The hospitals are Al Zahra Hospital, Adam Vital Hospital, Neuro Spinal Hospital, Burjeel Hospital, Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital and King’s College Hospital.
The second phase aims to provide discounts to Visa cardholders in other countries to cover all hospitals and clinics affiliated with the Dubai Health Experience Group (DXH).
It will also work with travel agents, airlines and hospitality service providers to obtain various discounts and other offers.
Dr. Marwan Al Mulla (above), CEO of the health regulation sector at the DHA, said the initiative with Visa would support and revitalise health tourism to Dubai because of the discounts and multiple benefits it provides to patients from different countries of the world, besides enabling them to benefit from high-quality medical services in various health facilities in the emirate.
He said Dubai attracted 630,000 international health tourists, with their medical expenses amounting to about AED730 million in 2021due to the programmes adopted by Dubai to activate health tourism in cooperation with its strategic partners.
Dr. Saeeda Jaffar, Visa’s senior vice president and Group country manager for GCC said the strategic agreement with DHA would increase Dubai’s attractiveness as a preferred destination for global health tourism, and as a centre for first-class healthcare facilities.
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