lots of doubts - latifa or city hospital...

Delivered in Latifa (Ex Al Wasl) hospital last September. What I can tell you from my experience is that you can register with Latifa but all your initial visits would be in one of their associated government clinics until you are in your 8th month. The facilities were excellent in Latifa and I would definitely prefer going back to them (hopefully)

ps ou have a diff doc each time, this isn;t a huge concern of mine as delivered dd in uk under nhs and this was the case in uk also. nicu charges at latifa vary from 2200 - 3900 per day, don't know about city as not detailed.

Hi DesJJ I find myself in a similar situation as you. We are not insured as such, company will pay and we pay back as an interest free loan over time, if we go to private hosp or we pay everything up front for gov hosp. We are also having twins so cost is a bit of a factor. Today I visited both hospitals and was really impressed with them both. Latifa - You can visit any morning from 730 to the customer service area and they will take you around the hosp and ask questions. I went to admissions today and got a print out of costings and asked additional costs too. They were able to tell me an epidural would be 1800 aed in addition to whichever package we took but couldn't tell me exactky what was included in the package price as it's dependant in each delivery. However I plan on asking more questions tomrorrow whe I go for the walk around. City - Much more detailed info in what is included in packages. Obviously more expensive but the main diff in price comes about if having a section, not a huge diff for normal delivery. City also includes a package for instrumental delivery which Latifa doesnt. Every Fri between 11 and 12 and 4 and 5 there is a free tour of the hospital and you can ask questions there. here are the main things i've found out latifa - normal delivery private room 90000 section private room 12000 epidural 1800 circumcision - 1500 city - normal delivery 11500 section - 22500 epidural 2500 city you're automatically in a private room prices don't include epidural, blood transfusion, nicu,medication,circumcision does include 2 vaccinations after birth for baby - bcg and engerix ( i dont know what engerix is, know from uk babies get vit k injection so maybe this but would need to find out ) so my plan of action is to go to latifa tomorrow find out if what is in the city break down in included in the latifa package, then go to city on friday for tour there and any extra questions i can think of. the antenatal packages for both are v similar 5000 latifa, 5500 city but again would want to cross check what's included at latifa vs city. Hope this helps but one thing for sure both appeared organised and clean and were helpful and friendly, HTH

I was told when I registered my LOs birth that the government here ignores a three month discrepancy in marriage and delivery dates to allow for premature births. So you should not have a problem.