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Here's a list of prominent hospitals offering world-class healthcare facilties for the Middle East travellers. Our team has personally visited many of these hospitals to bring you this report...
The Business & Tourism Guide Series has played a key role in guiding Arab tourists to new destinations. Our magazines provide a Middle East perspective to new destinations and are published in both English and Arabic. In addition to providing useful information about the destination, we also cover key sectors like health tourism, manufacturing, business as well as an overview of the hotel industry.
As part of our efforts to provide authentic and unbiased reports, we visited several hospitals that offer world-class healthcare facilties. Our readership in the Middle East has always been on the lookout for quality healthcare overseas. Here are a few hospitals we recommend:
Bumrungrad Hospital (Bangkok, Thailand)
One of the largest private hospitals in Southeast Asia, Bumrungrad Hospital is one of the extremely popular in the Middle East. The hospital has Arabic-speaking interpreters for visitors from the Middle East. The hospital staff can also arrange accommodation at the hospital's own BH Tower Serviced Apartment connected to the hospital and also offers hotel accommodation at sppecially negotiated corporate rates. The hospital has a full range of laboratory, imaging and other technologies including MRI, CT and nuclear medicine.
Phyathai Hospitals (Bangkok, Thailand)
The Phyathai Hospitals group is at the forefront of providing international standard medical services in Thailand.
Phyathai Hospitals has
its own One-Stop Centre which acts as a port of entry and liason to the group's compprehensive range of services. Once contacted, the multi-lingual stafff will organise the preliminary examinations and or required treatments as well as make necessary travel arrangements for patients and their families. Most of the hospital's staff physicians and surgeons have studied and trained overseas and are licenced in their specialities by American and/or European boards. Phyathai Hospitals have the latest technology and equipment such as MRI CT Scanners, Ultrasound, Navigator Image Guided Surhery, Bone Densitometers and Audiographs.
Bangkok Hospital (Thailand)
One of the few private hospitals in Southeast
Asia to have a Lekseel Gamma Knife Installation (for the removal of tumours and complex brain surgery without incision), the Bangkok Hospital comes highly recommmended by our team. The hospital has dedicated services for Middle Eastern and Muslim patients like Arab translators, special halal food and prayer rooms within the hospital premises. Some of the hospital's major clinics include the Pediatric Centre, Health Promotion Centre, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Reproductive Health Care and Fertility Clinic, Internal Medicine, Orthopedics, Dermatology & Beauty Clinic, Psychiatry, General Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Bangkok Liaoning-massage & acupuncture, Pacemaker clinic and Sleep Disorder clinic - to name a few.
Vibhavadi 2 Hospital (Bangkok, Thailand)
Vibhavadi 2 Spine Centre specialises in providing state-of-the-art medical treatment and preventive medicine for those with a wide range of spinal problems. The Vibhavadi 2 Spine Centre
stresses a team approach and is ccapabale of hanndling advanced spinal surgery of any level or complexity. However, the hospital focuses on both surgical and non-surgical treatment for spinal disorders such as spinal fraccture due to accident, failed back and neck surgery, spinal deformity, bone cancer and related tumours, hemiated cervical, thoracic and lumbar discs, spondylolisthesis and spinal stenosis.
Praram 9 Hospital (Bangkok, Thailand)
With more than 130 physicians including 30 American Board certified specialists, Praram 9 Hospital welcomes patients from the Middle East looking for specialised treatment for any kind of ailment. Praram 9 is a general hospital with speciality clinics like the Renal Transplant Centre, Cardiovascular Centre, Blastocyst Centre (Infertility), Ear, Nose, Throat Centre with Sleep Laboratory as well as a highly sophisticated Dental Clinic. The hospital also has a dedicated Oncology Clinic that offers prevention and treatment services against cancer by highly qualified specialists.
Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre (GIMC) provides comprehensive medical services under one roof. The GIMC provides a broad range of assistance to International Patients and their famiies, including review of treatment options by specialist and estimated costs, Visa (if necessary), travel arrangement assistance, accommodation bookings, airport transfers, translators, insurance assistance and post treatment sightseeing tours.
Institut Jantung Negara (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Institut Jantung Negara provides specialised heartcare services backed by a team of cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons and anaesthetists and skilled paramedical personnel. The hospital also offers exective screening - a medical examination with emphasis on your heart. It was the first heart centre in Malaysia to successfullly carry out a heart transplant in 1997.
Selangor Medical Centre (Selangor, Malaysia)
Selangor Medical Centre (SMC) is an integrated one-stop medical centre with state-of-the-art facilities. It offers a comprehensive range of medical and surgical specialities. Some of the hospitals specialities include cardiology, cardiac surgery, oncology, internal medicine, pediatric, pediatric surgery, pediatric oncology, urology, neurosurgery, radiology, general surgery, dental surgery, anaesthesiology, neonatology, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedic surgery, ophthalmology, nephrology and endocrinology.
Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
KPJ Health Berhad is the largest private healthcare provider in Malaysia with 12 premier hospitals strategically located all over the country. Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital (APSH), offers a full range of diagnostic, curative, therapeutic, rehabilitative and preventive medicine. Its niché specialty is the cardiac unit with an experienced and highly qualified cardio thoracic surgeon backed by equally competent cardiologists and paediatric cardioloist with facilities that include a catheterization laboratory and cardiac theatre. It also has a dedicated Executive Screening Centre that provides a thorough physical, medical examination and investigations. The consultants also offer preventive strategy assessment and delve into your past and current medical state, also taking into consideration your family history.
Pantai Medical Centre (Kula Lumpur, Malaysia)
Pantai Medical Centre (PMC), the first private tertiary hospital in Malaysia, has been attracting a large number of patients from the Middle East. The hospital is linked to Johns Hopkins Medical Centre, Duke University Hospital, Cleveland Clinic and the Massachusetts General Hospital in the USA through its Telemedicine hub. It has targeted tourists from the Middle East by offering a wide range of facilites for them such as special Arabic speaking staff to attend to visitors from the Middle East as well as special prayer rooms for Muslim patients, the availability of halal food and dedicated female attendants for Middle Eastern women.
"The Business & Tourism Guide Series is an excellently produced series of magazines that has helped us immensely not only to know more about many countries but also identify potential business partners for the future. I commend the efforts of the publishers in promoting direct business-to-business contacts between Taiwan and the international markets"
Saleh Nasser Lootah CEO, Asian Air Travel & Tours Co. (Dubai)
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