AMMAN — The
International Healthcare Travel Forum
2022 convened in Jordan will help attract foreign patients for treatment in the
Kingdom, healthcare experts contended.
اضافة اعلان
The two-day forum, which opened Saturday, brought
together 750 participants from 51 countries worldwide. A free day was declared
on Monday, when international delegates will go on field trips to hospitals
before having lunch in the Dead Sea.
It is held under the patronage of His Majesty King
Abdullah, and organized by the
Private Hospitals Association, in partnership
with the Ministry of Health and the Jordan Tourism Board, and in cooperation
with the International Hospitals Federation, the International Council for
Medical Tourism and the Federation of Arab Hospitals.
It includes 11 specialized panel sessions in various
fields related to the health, with about 76 speakers from different sectors,
all concerned with medical tourism and health travel.
Fidaa Saif,
director of the Insurance Department at Sharif Eye Center, told
Jordan News her participation focuses on educating the entire community about eye diseases,
“and therefore we offer a free eye examination for all participants, in
addition to free consultations as well”.
She said that “our participation in this forum has
greatly benefited us, as we got to know different medical authorities from
different nations”, she said.
Saif said many Arab and foreign participants “became
interested in having their eye problems treated in Jordan after they got to
know more, through this forum, about the modern technologies that we offer here
in Jordan.”
Abdel Salam Obaid,
administrative and financial officer in the Private Hospitals Association,
said: “By organizing this forum, we aim to enhance, and strengthen the
reputation of private hospitals in Jordan at the Arab and international levels,
and accordingly, to promote medical tourism to the Kingdom”.
“In Jordan, we are acquiring the latest medical
devices and equipment, and this is noticeable in many hospitals in the
Kingdom,” he said. “This forum is a real opportunity to introduce the
participants to this great development.”
The opening of the forum was attended by Jordanian
and
Arab ministers, and a number of officials in the Arab and foreign
ministries of health, in addition to ambassadors and diplomats, and
representatives of local and international bodies specialized in the health
sector, medical tourism and health travel, including hospitals and health care
centers, doctors, insurance companies and others.
Mayyada Momani, head of International Relations at
Istiklal Hospital, told
Jordan News that her participation “is very
important, especially with the presence of Arab and international medical
figures”.
She explained that “Al-Istiklal Hospital is one of
the first Jordanian private hospitals that received patients from different
countries, including Sudan, Yemen, Iraq and others”.
“We look forward to receiving more patients from all
countries of the world, and for this, I say that this forum is a great opportunity
for us to communicate with medical figures to gain more experience, especially
as we look forward to Jordan being in the first place in medical tourism”, she
explained.
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