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Latest post on 24 March 2014 - 17:33

Hi!
New to Dubai and couldn't even work out how to post here :)! Can anyone help me, as an expat would you use Rashid Hospital for general appts including female ones?! I have been told I don't need health insurance as this place is fine for everything but I'm beginning to hear mixed views. As an expat where do you all go?
Many thanks
FreddyFace! :)

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Latest post on 25 March 2014 - 08:31

Regardless of the services at Rashid hospital.....you would be insane to move to Dubai without comprehensive health insurance as a part of your package of employment. It should be all encompassing and cover the entire family.

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Latest post on 24 March 2014 - 22:29

Hi! New to Dubai and couldn't even work out how to post here :)! Can anyone help me, as an expat would you use Rashid Hospital for general appts including female ones?! I have been told I don't need health insurance as this place is fine for everything but I'm beginning to hear mixed views. As an expat where do you all go? Many thanks FreddyFace! :) Not sure where you have sourced your info but to live as an expat in this region without any medical insurance is just about the biggest mistake anyone can make. Get insurance.

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Latest post on 24 March 2014 - 19:27

I spend 16 hours in A&E last week, my only expectation on the basis of what i had heard about the place was adequate medical attention in an emergency but sadly did not receive timely or proper attention. I got there at 6am with a very sick diabetic child. who had gone into ketosis from vomiting and diarrhea. After waiting 3 hours in triage where he received no treatment at all he was sent to A&E where they also did not treat him appropriately, his blood sugar was dangerously high and they denied him insulin completely and he went into acidosis which is life threatening, the cardinal rule of diabetes is you never stop insulin even when the patient is unable to keep down food, they did exactly the opposite, I pleaded and battled for 16 hours there to get him the treatment he needed and ended up having to discharge him. The place was an absolute chaotic nightmare of doctors and nurses who failed to communicate to incoming shifts over this period of time resulting in a new doctor coming in every so often asking what the problem was, each one just decided to leave him as was without being admitted. It was a vicious circle of failure going nowhere after 16 hours there with his condition worsening, finally I was told they had no beds to admit him and there was nothing else they could do but leave him in A&E. I removed him from the place at midnight to a private hospital where thankfully he was properly treated and is on the mend. We nearly lost our child, would never go there again.

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Latest post on 24 March 2014 - 18:11

Rashid Hospital A& E is the only free part of the hospital. All road accidents and trauma cases go there and until the need arises for an operation, the services of A & E are free. We are British and my husband broke his back in 4 places 3 years ago. Luckily he is fine now after a huge operation to place metal pins and rods being placed in his back which he will live with forever. The trauma team were mostly expat and were fantastic. He spent one week on the trauma ward afterwards and overall was looked after very well. It was very clean and the food was ok (like any hospital food). His after care check ups have been well organised and he has seen his surgeon every time, who is Eastern European. Because he had an op the cost for a 4 hour op with a spinal emergency team and one week's stay cost 12,000 Dhs! Nothing compared to the rest of Dubai or private care in the UK. If we had another emergency I wouldn't hesitate to go there again.

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Latest post on 24 March 2014 - 17:53

As far as I know Rashid is only for governmental patients free. moreover they should have long waiting times and the facility is not nice. However I was never a patient there but I definitively wouldnt go. I hope you are never in an ambulance then, as that is where they go! ;) Rashid Hospital is widely regarded as the best trauma centre in Dubai. It may not be everybody's cup of tea on the luxury scale, however they are so experienced dealing with so many accidents and injuries on a daily basis that you would have to weigh up your preferences on medical care versus luxuries. Their triage team are also very experienced, and if you have to wait for a long time it is because there are much more serious injuries in front of you. Their medical team has experience from all over the world not just Arab. And lastly, although they are attended by Locals, their majority customer would be expat - reflecting the population of Dubai. Dubai IS mostly expat. Of all nationalities! For the OP, go to www.dohms.gov.ae and find out where your nearest local clinic is. Go there, have a chat with someone and find out how to register yourself for a healthcard. To see a Gynae, you usually see a GP first at your local clinic. HTH.

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Latest post on 24 March 2014 - 17:44

As far as I know Rashid is only for governmental patients free. moreover they should have long waiting times and the facility is not nice. However I was never a patient there but I definitively wouldnt go.

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Latest post on 24 March 2014 - 17:42

Most expats have health insurance and go to the private clinics or hospitals for check ups. There are people who go to Rashid as its a lot cheaper. The doctors there are mostly arab.

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