Under the agreement, Visa will work in cooperation with its banking partners to offer cardholders a number of exclusive discounts on medical services provided by Dubai Health Experience members through the physical tourism website.
DUBAI – The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Visa, the global leader in virtual payments, with the aim of making Dubai competitive as an ideal destination for health tourism.
The agreement was signed through Dr. Marwan Al Mulla, Executive Director of DHA’s Health Regulation Sector, and Dr. Marwan Al Mulla. Saeeda Jaffar, Senior Vice President of Visa and Group Country Director for GCC.
Under the agreement, Visa will work in cooperation with its banking partners to offer cardholders a number of exclusive discounts on medical facilities provided through Dubai Health Experience (DXH) members through the online physical tourism website www. dxh. ae. Visa cardholders will be able to decide between a variety of medical facilities and procedures, arrange appointments with doctors, and plan their treatment routes.
The agreement will be implemented in two phases. The first phase aims to ensure that Kuwait Visa cardholders get discounts at six clinics and hospitals in the UAE, basically Al Zahra Hospital, Adam Vital Hospital, Neuro Spinal Hospital, Burjeel Hospital, Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital and King’s College Hospital.
The current phase aims to offer discounts to Visa cardholders in other countries to cover all hospitals and clinics affiliated with the Dubai Health Experience Group (DXH). You will also work with agents, airlines, and hospitality service providers for various discounts and other benefits. Offerings
Dr. Marwan Al Mulla highlighted the importance of signing the MoU, which is part of DHA’s ongoing plans and efforts to identify broad horizons of strategic component partnerships with various local, regional and global institutions to decorate Dubai’s global capacity and competitiveness as an ideal destination. for applicants for remedy and hospitalization.
He praised the effective systems followed through Dubai to activate fitness tourism in cooperation with its strategic partners, who have contributed during the year 2021 beyond attracting 630,000 foreign fitness tourists, with medical expenses amounting to some AED 730 million, which are record figures. in light of the exceptional cases the world is going through due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has cast negative shadows on important sectors, including the fitness sector.
El Dr. Al Mulla also expressed confidence in the positive effects that the MoU will achieve with Visa, and its role in supporting and revitalizing fitness tourism in Dubai due to the discounts and multiple advantages it offers to patients from other countries of the world, and allowing them to gain advantages from quality medical centers in fitnesscare services in the emirate.
Dr Saeeda Jaffar said: “Our strategic agreement with DHA will increase Dubai’s attractiveness as a destination for global healthcare tourism and as a hub for world-class healthcare facilities.
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