NUQAIM and TMTC Partner on UAE Medical Travel Corridor
NUQAIM Holdings, a Dubai-headquartered diversified healthcare enterprise, and The Medical Travel Company (TMTC), a London-headquartered healthcare concierge, signed a strategic partnership at Dusit Thani, Dubai. Together they will build a medical travel corridor connecting patients in the UK and Africa with care in the UAE.
A defining feature of the deal is bringing international healthcare providers from India, the UK, the USA and the UAE to operate in the UAE. The consortium's clinicians are described as senior consultants with experience in thousands of complex procedures, including robotic surgery.
TMTC describes itself as a full-stack healthcare concierge: it arranges a patient's care and travel together instead of only booking a hospital.
Under the corridor, the consortium manages the whole journey. That runs from a first consultation with a specialist in the patient's home country through visas, flights, accommodation, airport transfers and a dedicated care coordinator.
The patient's own UK doctor stays involved before, during and after treatment, with nurse-assisted recovery and telemedicine follow-up.
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The corridor targets a UK queue. NHS waiting lists are at an all-time high, with more than 8 million people waiting to see a doctor or have surgery. The partners offer UK patients the option of surgery in an internationally accredited UAE hospital, a few hours' flight from home.
An estimated 523,000 UK residents travelled abroad for treatment in 2024, up from 348,000 in 2022.
Dubai ranks sixth in the world on the Medical Tourism Index and welcomed 691,478 international health tourists in 2023. Its healthcare sector counts around 5,800 licensed facilities and more than 69,400 private-sector professionals.
Dr. Shajir Gaffar, Managing Director of NUQAIM Holdings, said: "This partnership opens a trusted corridor from the UK and brings highly experienced, world-renowned, and distinguished UAE-based specialists to manage these patients, providing the highest internationally evidence-based practices and care."
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