Technology Partners
NMC hospital has entered into a strategic partnership with Germany's prestigious Universitats Freiburg Klinikum (UHF) to offer advanced medical treatment facilities for UAE residents. Under the terms of the agreement, patients at NMC requiring further treatment can avail of UHF's facilities.

Set in a pastoral university town of 250,000 inhabitants and 30,000 students, UHF lies in close proximity to the verdant Black Forest and the Rhine valley in southwest Germany.
The hospital, founded in 1457, is the second biggest in Germany with 2,000 beds and a staff of 8,000 including 990 doctors. There are 13 clinics, five institutes and five central services such as the Hospital Chemist and the Tumour Centre. The UHF hospital has 35 super specialty departments with a faculty comprising the cream of international medical practitioners.

UHF is at the extreme vanguard in the evolving science of biotechnology. Scientists at UHF can develop skin and cartilage from body tissues by isolating cells from the body tissue, passing them through a special matrix over a two-week period and transplanting them on the needed portion of the body. This process ensures full acceptance as both the donor and recipient are the same. In time, the scientists believe that entire organs can be transplanted. In a pioneering operation at UHF, a new ear was transplanted to replace the damaged one, using the patient's own cells.

The agreement between NMC and UHF, which came into effect from October 1, 2001, also covers the provision of advanced training through exchange of doctors, other medical and paramedical auxiliary personnel between two faculties. Future cooperation between the two will lay special emphasis on the options and opportunities offered by telemedicine. They will also jointly tap new emerging fields in the healthcare industry. NMC will also apprise UHF of the unfolding developments in UAE's healthcare sector. On its part, UHF will keep NMC informed on medical development and new treatment methods.

The hospital has also tied up with The London Clinic, London, Universitats Spital Zurich, Switzerland and other leading hospitals in Europe and USA, where its patients can avail advanced treatment.