The facility aims to be a centre of excellence for health care for those aged 65 and over.

Authorities announced that Dubai would start welcoming tourists starting July 7.

Dubai logs high doctor-resident ratio as the emirate scores above many countries

In the lead up to the 2016 fiscal year, the Dubai Health Authority’s (DHA) initial expectation was to attract 170,000 medical tourists during the year. However, fuelled by the success of the creation of the Dubai Health Experience (DXH), a brand conceived by the DHA to build strategic partnerships with both the private and government sector to strengthen Dubai’s position on the world’s medical tourism map, the government has reported that this milestone was exceeded and the ambitious goal of attracting 500,000 medical tourists to the emirate by 2020 is fully on track.