While the numbers of these amounts in reports on treatment abroad for Gulf citizens are high, the result is certain that they are very high. While an international conference in Dubai last year revealed an increase The cost of the Gulf countries to more than $ 5.5 billion to treat its citizens in Europe, Asia and America, other medical reports said it spends about $ 20 billion a year!

If this figure is true, Gulf countries spend about 15% of the global medical tourism market, and medical reports expect the global market to exceed $ 130 billion by 2025!

In these reports, there is no specific figure on the size of the UAE's spending on the treatment of its citizens abroad. However, we can expect that a large proportion of these billions are the share of the UAE. Treatment in various countries and continents of the world, and send annually hundreds of cases.

In general, what is striking about the medical reports is its use of the term "global medical tourism market". At first sight, we may find it strange to combine the words "market" and "medicine." However, reality confirms this. Most of the world's most famous hospitals, where medicine and health care have become a market and a trade, because of the urgent need for advanced healthcare by Gulf nationals, it is obvious that healthcare companies are competing with Gulf patients and inventing new ideas and solutions to attract them. The budgets of their countries!

In France, for example, there is an official name for a department called the Department of Health Care Trade, whose president, Lorena Cabrera, says: "Today we focus on promoting French hospitals to Gulf patients. We have innovative solutions, especially in diabetes and oncology. With patients from all over the world, especially from the Gulf! "

This is what has been noticed in many European countries, and even in America, where the focus on «therapeutic trade», which in turn raises the bill to any patient to five and six and ten times the cost of the real treatment, the patient becomes subject to testing, unnecessary tests, long deadlines and procrastination Leaving the hospitals, and the state remains confused, as it has the desire to provide treatments for its citizens, while responding to the blackmail of hospitals!

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