HOSPITALS
“ I WELCOME
NEW DISRUPTORS IF THEY HAVE SOMETHING POSITIVE TO PROVIDE TO
THE SECTOR ”
– Sanjay Shah , Executive Vice President of Fakeeh Care the organisation has established a medical college , where it has received its first batch of medical students . It also houses a unique and outstanding residency programme , alongside a number of post-graduate and nursing programmes .
“ Fakeeh has always housed a very academic care platform , which is quite unique in this sector ,” observes Shah . “ Other hospital providers do not have the ability of having their own crop of nursing staff , medical labs and graduates coming through their ranks to provide this care . I would say these are the most important aspects regarding our ability to provide patients the care that they deserve . We take the element of quality and excellence in care as really phenom , so our academic-care model is unique in the Kingdom .”
Nonetheless , with such an evolving demographic , the rise of lifestyle diseases has skyrocketed , leading to the demand for , and subsequent growth of new health services . “ We ’ ve got a very strong culture of lifestyle diseases . The population is earmarked to rise to approximately 50mn by 2050 . 49 % of the Kingdom ’ s population is under the age of 29 , so
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