Microsoft founder and Aman Foundation pledge $10m to Pakistan healthcare
Healthcare
Bill Gates teams up with Saudi bank for polio fight
Deal Islamic Development Bank is reportedly worth around US$277m
European IVF firm set to open UAE clinic
Belgian-based specialist to launch clinic in Abu Dhabi hospital ‘within next few weeks’
Sharjah Healthcare City ops to start in early 2013
Senior health official says project will solve hospital bed shortage in Northern Emirates
Emirates passengers monitored over Congo fever case
Three passengers contacted, given health checks as victim dies of deadly disease
Emirates passenger found to have deadly virus
Man flying home to UK from Dubai in hospital with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
Medical experts in Riyadh to find source of SARS-type virus
Delegates from WHO in kingdom on the invitation of the Saudi government
Gulf’s Most Powerful Indians
Consul General to unveil Indian Power List
Arabian Business to host gala dinner for most influential Indians
Bahrain court confirms jail terms for medics
Nine medics convicted of role in last year’s protests will get terms of up to five years
GE to invest $1bn in Saudi healthcare, energy
US giant to launch healthcare centre alongside kingdom’s first heavy fuel oil technology programme
WHO says only severely ill should be tested for new virus
So far there have only been two confirmed cases of SARS-like disease
Best of 2012: Sobhi A Batterjee interview
The Arab world’s healthcare industry is fraught with government red tape and bureaucracy but as Sobhi A Batterjee, president and CEO of the Saudi German Hospitals Group, tells Arabian Business, it will take more than that to halt his expansion plans
Robust growth seen in GCC healthcare spend
Frost & Sullivan report says Saudi Arabia is biggest investor with $24bn last year
Saudi-linked virus ‘not easily transmitted’, says WHO
World Health Organisation working with international partners to better understand risk
SARS-like virus infected five in Denmark – reports
The patients have been isolated in hospital after suffering from flu-like symptoms
Saudi Arabia acts to limit virus threat during Hajj
Health ministry official says precautions taken to tackle influx of 2 million pilgrims
Saudi downplays SARS ahead of Hajj influx
Health officials say no changes to the conditions required by the Gulf state ahead of Hajj