‘Bahrain’s healthcare sector serves as a catalyst for health tourism’

The Kingdom, with its world-class healthcare system and services, has a huge potential to emerge as a health tourism hub in the GCC region.

Bahrain has consistently been an attractive market for health- care investors in the Gulf region in part due to the high expectations of standards in quality and patient safety regulations.

The Kingdom is looking to further bolster the levels of healthcare services in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 and increase the medical tourism sector’s contribution to GDP. In this regard, Shaikh Mo- hamed Bin Abdullah AI Khalifa Chairman Supreme Council of Health, Kingdom of Bahrain re- ceived Dr Mariam Al Jalahma, CEO of the National Health Reg- ulatory Authority (NHRA), who briefed him on the upcoming GCC Healthcare Accreditation

Conference.
Also, in attendance were the organisers of this event Abdulrahim Naqi, Chairman of Checklist for Conventions and Trade Shows, and Hassan Hassani, Chief Executive Officer.

The organisers of this conference highlighted the importance of the conference to reinforce Bahrain’s position as an emerging GCC health tourism hub with multi-billion-dollar tourism infrastructure projects that are already in the pipeline.

The GCC Healthcare Accreditation Conference and Exhibition is scheduled to be held from April 19th – 21st, 2020 at The Gulf Hotel and Convention Centre.

The conference will allow subject matter experts, regulators and moderators to deliberate the opportunities and challenges being faced by health- care providers across the region and how to emulate the best public and private healthcare models from across the world.