Future
Medical Tourism Team Discuss Boosting Medical Tourism in Jordan

Abu-Ghazaleh:
The Success of the Team's mission lies in developing procedural steps in a
fixed timeframe

AMMAN
– In compliance with the vision of His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein
and His
Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, , HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh,
founder and chairman of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global (TAG.Global), called for the
formation of a high level team to handle the 'Future Medical Tourism’; a team that
 which brings together experts, specialists and leaders to discuss the
appropriate means for   promoting medical tourism in Jordan. 

The
established team includes a number of high-ranking dignitaries that include:
Dr. Firas Al-Hawari, Minister of Health, Mr. Nayef Al-Fayez, Minister of
Tourism, Dr. Bandar Al Fuhaid, the Arab Tourism Organization President, and
Brigadier Dr. Youssef Zureikat, the Director General of the Royal Medical
Services, in addition to specialists in the field of medical and tourism
services.

The
team held a meeting on the sidelines of the 7^th Medical Tourism World Summit,
Conference and Expo, that was organized in cooperation between TAG.Global and
the Pioneers Road Company.

During
the meeting, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh stressed Jordan’s important role represented by
the Ministries of Health and Tourism as well as the Food and Drug
Administration, in controlling healthcare costs and expenses, as well as
considering the potential of establishing specialized departments within the
relevant institutions to carry out this monitoring task.

 Dr.
Abu-Ghazaleh affirmed the importance of addressing the challenges that the
medical tourism is experiencing, giving special consideration to innovation in
this sector, through procedural steps related to the work of the team and
within a fixed timeframe. He, further, indicated that such steps start by
analyzing internal and external environment, opportunities and challenges
associated with the various areas of medical tourism.

Dr.
Abu-Ghazaleh also underscored the importance of undertaking the required steps
to control variating pricing and to encourage innovation in pharmaceutical
fields with particular attention to intellectual property rights, and the legal
issues associated with pharmaceutical inventions. Furthermore, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh
stated that TAG.Global is ready to devote all its services to contribute to
building the team’s clear vision, in addition to strengthening Jordan’s role on
the map of medical tourism in the region. This contribution is intended to
develop solutions to address the decline in the tourism sector and to
compensate for losses caused by the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
pandemic.

For
their part, the team members emphasized the importance of studying the reality
of the medical tourism sector in the Kingdom, the challenges it faces, and the
competitiveness of the Jordanian market in this sector compared with the
neighboring countries, particularly the possibility of making this type of
tourism within the special packages offered to tourists. That is in addition to
studying the technological developments associated with the sector and
supporting entrepreneurial projects in the medical tourism field. 

At the end of the meeting, the team members
agreed on developing a well-shaped action plan in a fixed timeframe with
implementation programs associated with clear benchmarks by sharing roles
between the public and the private sectors.