Location of Cedars Hospital

Dubai Techno Park in the heart of new Dubai
with Jebel Ali Airport and Waterfront City

There cannot be a more ideal location of the project. Situated in the prime most location of the Dubai Techno Park just beside the Techno Park Headquarters, it faces on the one side the International Business City of the World central Airport which is going to consist of 850 Towers ranging between 50 and 350 Meters high servicing the largest Airport of the world. On the other side, it faces the most prestigious project of Dubai; the Dubai Water Front City (recently renamed ‘Madinat Al Arab’ in allusion to ‘Burj Al Arab’). This High End lavish living and highly prestigious city is going to accommodate 2.4 Million of high income population.

The Logistic importance of this project in terms of its strategic location at the Dubai Techno Park between the World Central Airport at Jebel Ali destined to handle 115 Million Passengers and more than 22 millions Tons of Cargo a year and the Jebel Ali sea Port handling at present more than 7 Million Containers and destined to handle 12 million containers in 2010 and more than 20 Million Containers in 2020 make of the project the most important hub for medical services and medical industries in the whole middle and Far Eastern region in Asia as well as Africa.

Aerial view of major projects in Jebel Ali and Dubai

The great demand on all the above mentioned components of the project is indisputable for the following reasons:

• Between the Gulf and Beirut in Lebanon on the Mediterranean, there is no medical school or postgraduate medical education institute of any international standing.
• Beside the absolute and pressing need of Dubai, U.A.E and the whole region for all the aspects of the project under consideration, it is useful to recall that there is a need for 8.4 millions of qualified nurses around the world. 5 millions of these are required in the United States of America alone. The remaining 3.4 millions are required in Australia, New Zealand, the U.K and elsewhere. The same goes for the medical technicians (Imaging, Laboratory, Operation Theatre technicians, biomedical engineering technicians and various other applications technicians.
• The need for the establishment of a school for Paramedics for Emergency Medicine and Emergency first responders, Basic and advanced life support is of primordial importance. Awareness is just burgeoning for such services in these parts of the world. The government agencies like the Police, the Fire Fighting Departments, The Ministry of Health and the local Department of Health of Dubai have, so far, been importing young men from India, Pakistan and the Philippines with a nursing background and locally training them for the job of Paramedics. The unfortunate part of the story is as soon as these young people are trained for the job they chose to move on to other countries leaving these government agencies with no choice but to look for another batch to train and so on. That is the reason why the government of Dubai and the governments of other Emirates and other Gulf states will welcome other private agencies relieving them from this heavy bill by undertaking the training of these vital and indispensable life savers who will pay for their own training. We have already started such an activity.
• Regarding the Hospital Management School, it suffices to say that there is an acute shortage of people with a proper Hospital Management training or Hospital Management background and needless to say that no operation of whatever nature can possibly be a success without proper management, management cannot be more overemphasized in the context of a highly technical, sensitive and delicate Business operation as a hospital where it is always a question of life and death.