“With Harvard, it’ll be Healthcare City”
American Public Media’s program “Marketplace” has developed a whole series exploring the rapidly transforming Middle East – everything from the obligatory look at “indoor skiing” to stories focused on infrastructure development, new construction, and other developments that are reshaping the Middle East and creating new connections between the region and the rest of the world.
In a recent segment of the program, Marketplace focused on Harvard’s involvement in Dubai, including Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), the University Hospital, and the Harvard Medical School Dubai Center (HMSDC) Institute for Postgraduate Education and Research. HMSDC chief academic officer Robert Thurer and DHCC CEO Muhadditha Al Hashimi talked with Marketplace about how Dubai could soon be a top health care “destination.”
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To sustain itself, the Common International Citizen needs to feel comfortable and free to come to Healthcare City . Otherwise there is always the risk that it would become a ‘rich medical club.’