Stem cell revolution begins in Dubai to boost medical tourism

Sajjad Ahmad, Deputy Business Editor

The global medical tourism industry is growing rapidly as worldwide spending in the sector was recorded around $4.7 billion in the 2023 and estimated to touch $8 billion mark next year, according to Bloomberg recent data.

To strengthen Dubai's position as a hub of medical tourism and increase the contribution of wellness tourism to its economy, Medical Wellness Tourism hosted a medical tourism exhibition in Dubai, with the participation of the largest clinics and the most famous doctors from several countries around the world.

This exhibition attracted doctors from all over the world, such as Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, and Turkey, in addition to the most important hospitals and clinics in Dubai.

The exhibition aims to present distinct solutions for stem cell treatment, such as treating disc herniation without surgery or the so-called “disc catheterization” and everything related to anti-aging, and creating an integrated treatment system that allows the patient to receive treatment whether in Dubai or anywhere in the world, with the possibility of providing all logistical services from Travel and accommodation reservations and the provision of an interpreter.

The exhibition also aims to confirm that Dubai is the capital of the Middle East in the field of medical tourism.

In this context, Izzat Rustom, CEO of the organizing company, said about the reason for holding this exhibition in Dubai: “Dubai is a global destination for all fields, including a medical destination. Therefore, we have created a tourist treatment programme in agreement.”

With famous doctors from all over the world, we provide patients with all the facilities for treatment with the latest technologies, and for those who do not have the ability to travel to Tokyo, Hamburg, or Switzerland, we perform the operations they need in local hospitals and clinics equipped with the highest international technologies and the latest scientific research, and for those who have the desire to travel. In the summer, we provide him with the opportunity to meet professional doctors and we carry out all reservation, travel and translation procedures through the Medical Tourism Exhibition.”

In response to a question about how this project serves Dubai as a destination for medical tourism, Rustom confirmed that Dubai is a distinguished tourist destination in all dimensions, but in order to build this tourism, doctors must be attracted from outside the Emirates to transfer expertise to the country, and this is done by their presence on average a week per month in Dubai to treat patients within.

The expertise available in their country. At the same time, when patients come to Dubai, they book appointments with doctors to provide services permitted by the laws of the Dubai Health Authority and in Dubai clinics, and services that are not permitted to be provided in Dubai.

The patient can be treated. In Tokyo, Germany, or any Western country, with famous doctors, whom we will be the link between. Rustom confirmed that the most important participants in the exhibition will be Vita Nova Company from Japan, which specialises in stem cell therapy and anti-aging, and which gives the patient, during seven sessions in Tokyo, seven trillion stem cells capable of helping to fight aging and reactivate these cells, as well as cosmetic companies from Korea and Malaysia.

“Urbin Wellness” for stem cells, and Arab doctors, including Professor Dr Muhammad Arous, a specialist physician Treating the disc with a catheter, and he is the inventor of this procedure without surgery. There are doctors coming from Turkey to perform hair and dental transplants, and local doctors, such as Dr Maan Al-Khatib, who is a senior surgeon and has surgeries known for the Hollywood smile.

There are many doctors participating with us and clinics as well. At the conclusion of his speech, Rustom explained that this event will be repeated at the end of April to provide the opportunity for those who decide during the summer to travel for treatment according to their desire and choose the destination that suits them and the type of treatment.

The Medical Tourism Exhibition will secure all procedures for the patient, thanking the Tourism and Therapeutic Health Authority in Dubai for their support for these projects. And facilitating everything that would transform Dubai into a Middle Eastern capital and a global destination for medical tourism.