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Capital to get new eye hospital
Moorfields Eye Hospital and United Eastern Medical Services signed a partnership agreement to establish Moorfields Eye Centre in Abu Dhabi.
A hospital of international repute, the Moorfields Eye Hospital, will open in Abu Dhabi by the end of this year.
John Pelly and Mohammed Ali Al Hammadi after signing a partnership agreement in Abu Dhabi. — Supplied photo
Part of NHS Foundation Trust in London, Moorfields is the oldest and one of the largest centres in the world for ophthalmic treatment, teaching and research.
Moorfields Eye Hospital and United Eastern Medical Services (Uemedical), which is Abu Dhabi’s privately owned healthcare development and investment company, on Tuesday, signed a partnership agreement to establish Moorfields Eye Centre in Abu Dhabi.
“The New Moorfields Eye Centre will complement our other outpatient centres. We develop integrated healthcare systems that raise the bar for medical excellence. The centre in Abu Dhabi will be one of the very few facilities in the emirate that is fully specialised in eye care services,” said Mohammed Ali Al Hammadi, CEO and managing director of Uemedical.
Moorfields already opened its purpose-built hospital in Dubai in 2007, the first overseas branch of Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, which has since treated more than 31,000 patients, some of whom have come from Abu Dhabi.
The new hospital will open in Abu Dhabi’s Marina Village (next to Marina Mall) towards the end of this year, and it will offer the same comprehensive range of clinical services and day case surgical procedures offered at Moorfields Eye Hospital, Dubai.
A spokesperson told Khaleej Times that the medical recruitment is done in London. Doctors from the Dubai branch will be transferred to Abu Dhabi and several specialists from Moorfields London will come to work here a couple of times a week.
“Our mission always remains constant, which is to focus on treating patients, teaching and research and this new centre will aim to make a significant contribution in all three areas, in Abu Dhabi,” said John Pelly, CEO of Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Uemedical, which owns and operates a network of specialty centres and family clinics across Abu Dhabi under its Health Plus brand, also announced that it will soon open the first specialised Women and Children’s Hospital, Danat Al Emarat, in Abu Dhabi.
silvia@khaleejtimes.com
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