Project Overview Cedars International

The fully fledged University Hospital Complex with Medical Industrial Complex will be set up in Techno Park besides the Waterfront City, Arabian Canal and opposite the Jebel Ali International Airport (World Central Airport), the largest Airport in the world with 115 million passenger capacity and 800 towers Airport Business City, Logistic City, etc.

Target Partners

• Universities, Medical Facilities
• Excellence Centers
• Medical Equipment + Instrument Manufacturers
• Medical, Biomedical and alternative energy Research Centers
• Pharmaceutical Industries
• Information Technology related to Medicine and Hospital Management
• Hospital Management entities
• Quality Assurance firms ISO: TUV CE Joint Commission Accreditation
• Committee
• Medical Tourism Firms
• Health Policy Makers
• German Politicians, Political and economic strategists.

Cedars delegation visit in Baden-Wuerttemberg in June 2006:
From left: Dr. Adnan Kaddaha, Prime Minister Öttinger,
HH Sheikh Suhail Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum

The Faculty of Medicine

A German Faculty of Medicine as a subsequent step to postgraduate training will bring about further integration and harmonization of services and will complete the Medical Complex. No academic medical structure is ever complete without an undergraduate medical school.

Beside the fact that such a medical school will the first German school outside Germany. It will contribute to the reassertion, the stability and the growth of the project through the constant supply of German formed medical Doctors and scientists for postgraduate programs at the University Hospital.

The Faculty of Medicine is envisaged to have a capacity of 100 students per year and five years program excluding the compulsory 1 year practical training in various disciplines before being eligible for medical council registration (depending on Rules of Doctors registration in the U.A.E)

Curriculum
• The student should be amongst the 10% best performers in Health Sciences in the higher secondary school completion Certificate.
• Should pass an exam of proficiency in English
• Should preferably go through a German language course
• Should pass a medical school entrance exam prescribed by the faculty of Medicine of the University of Tübingen.
• The first 2 years of the Undergraduate Medical Program would consist of Basic Medical Sciences. i.e.: Anatomy, Histology, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology and pathology.
• The third year will serve as introduction to Clinical Methods (Patient History taking and Clinical Examination)
• The 4th and 5th years will be entirely clinical and will cover the various disciplines in General Medicine, General Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, E.N.T, and Eye.
• The 6th year will be an ‘On the Job’ training year.

Signing the Memorandum of Understanding
at the University of Tübingen in 2006

Surface Areas

The Medical Industrial Complex
The Industrial Complex will be built on 30.000 m² of land. An initial office building is contemplated where potential partners can have their required office spaces. Other facilities will have to be dealt with on a case per case basis according to the pre specified requirements of the potential 0partners.

The Hospital
The space requirement is calculated as 90 m² per patient bed. So for 700 bedded hospital 63.500 m² are needed. The building will have 12 floors with a floor area of 5.500 m². Lesser floors/ height with a wider floor area.

Trauma Center
The trauma Center is envisaged to have an initial capacity of beds with a possibility of going up to 100 beds. A built area 5000 m² is needed for the 1st phase and of 10.000 m² is needed for the 2nd phase. The Trauma Center will be located at the present Cedars-JAIH.

The Rehabilitation Center
There is no rehabilitation facility in U.A.E and the whole region. Those who can afford it go to Europe but the problem of follow up remains an issue to be dealt with. Those who cannot afford the rehabilitation cost are left to face and accept their fate. The number of beds needed will be decided by demand. However we project to start with 50 beds in a fully equipped Center. The maximum projected capacity is 200 beds. The built area needed for such a Facility would be 22.000 m².

Signing of the MOU between Klinikum Stuttgart & Cedars J.A.I.H.:
from left.: Walter Leuchs, German Consul General;
Dr. Adnan Kaddaha, Chairman Cedars J.A.I.H.;
Prof. Dr. Guenther Kieninger, Medical Director Cedars J.A.I.H.;
Klaus-Peter Murawski, Mayor of Stuttgart for
Health & General Administration