GCC healthcare market goes under the knife to advance

DUBAI -- Governments throughout the GCC are increasingly channelling their efforts towards creating world-class healthcare facilities, Deloitte experts find.

As the official Knowledge Partner for the Hospital Build and Infrastructure Middle East Exhibition, held in Dubai from 4 to 6 June 2012, Deloitte experts presented a series of healthcare landscape presentations, outlining challenges in regional healthcare regulations as well as capacity planning for healthcare projects.

“We are witnessing governments in the GCC focus more and more on the healthcare industry in their respective countries, improving structure and facilities. However, governments are facing many challenges in doing so, with many turning towards Public Private Partnerships (PPP), to aid in the transfer of quality service to raise the level of healthcare provision across the region,” said Julian Hawkins, Partner in charge for Consulting Services at Deloitte Middle East.

Deloitte healthcare experts spearheaded a series of presentations on the challenges and opportunities facing the healthcare sector in the GCC. The presentations included an in-depth focus on Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, with several key findings from each market.

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