Dubai: Thumbay Group launches Thumbay Medicity Dubai in Al Qusais
Dubai: Thumbay Group on Monday announced the launch of Thumbay Medicity Dubai, a large academic healthcare destination in Al Qusais that integrates education, healthcare and research under one campus.
The medical city has the capacity to train nearly 3,000 students, generate 1,000 employment opportunities, and support a daily floating population of around 6,000 people, the group said.
Designed as a “city within a city”, Thumbay Medicity Dubai brings together a branch campus of Gulf Medical University, Thumbay University Hospital Dubai, research centres, simulation and skills labs, laboratories, pharmacies, alternative medicine facilities, home care services and support infrastructure.
According to the group, the project marks a major milestone in building integrated academic healthcare ecosystems, where students learn in real clinical environments and patients access to care that is directly supported by education and research.
Speaking at the launch, Dr. Thumbay Moideen, Founder President of Thumbay Group, said the project reflects the group’s long-term vision.
“Thumbay Medicity Dubai is more than an expansion. It is the next chapter of a dream that began with one clear belief, education, healthcare, and research must grow together. We are very much Aligned with the Vision of Dubai, and the city now gains an integrated academic medical city built to shape future professionals, elevate patient care, and fuel new discoveries. Our vision has always been global, but deeply human,” he said.
The education zone will house Gulf Medical University’s Dubai campus, including the Thumbay College of Management and AI in Healthcare, advanced simulation laboratories, surgical skills centres, international foundation programmes and AI-driven learning environment, and specialized colleges.
Prof. Manda Venkatramana, Chancellor of Gulf Medical University said, “This campus gives students access to a second fully equipped academic location in one of the world’s most dynamic cities. It reflects our commitment to contemporary education, global exposure, and building the next generation of healthcare leaders.”
The healthcare zone will be anchored by Thumbay University Hospital Dubai, which will begin Phase One operations with services such as renal dialysis, cardiology, orthopaedics and rehabilitation. The hospital will later expand into a full multi-specialty academic hospital.
Mr. Akbar Moideen Thumbay, Vice President, Healthcare Division, Thumbay Group said, “Dubai becomes a major hub for our healthcare system. With hospitals, labs, pharmacies and medical tourism programs integrated into one destination, our focus remains clear, accessible, compassionate care backed by academic excellence.”
Strategically located on the Dubai-Sharjah border in Al Qusais, Thumbay Medicity Dubai offers access to major residential areas and transport connectivity. With this launch, Thumbay Group said it aims to strengthen its presence as one of the region’s comprehensive academic healthcare networks, building not just institutions, but environments where learning heals, research advance care, and communities grow.
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Democracy invests in higher education so that graduates may govern themselves well: CJI
Chandigarh (PTI): A democracy does not invest in higher education so that its graduates may simply prosper, it does so to ensure that they govern themselves well, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said on Saturday.
"Every institution of public life -- the courts, the civil services, the schools, the hospitals, the local governance bodies -- all depend for their quality on the calibre of the people who choose to serve within them," the CJI said while addressing the 12th convocation ceremony of the Central University of Haryana in Mahendragarh.
Justice Kant said in barely 17 years, the university has earned national accreditation and recognition for its swift growth.
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He told the gathering of students that the degrees conferred on them certify the knowledge they have acquired and they should be proud of it but at the same time, he emphasised that "what your degree does not certify, and no examination can measure -- how your character and judgment hold up once the structure of formal education is no longer around you. In my experience, this ultimately determines the trajectory of life".
The CJI said there are graduates of the most-celebrated institutions who have faltered under pressure, not because they lacked knowledge but because they were never tested by anything other than a school or college examination.
"And then there are professionals from institutions nobody has heard of, who rise with composure and seriousness, earning the confidence of every room they enter," he said.
So what is the distinguishing factor then, he asked the students.
"In my view, it has nothing to do with the talent one may display in the classroom and almost everything to do with upbringing.
"Those who grew up observing their families manage scarcity with dignity, who understood early on that the world does not rearrange itself for your convenience and who entered professional life already knowing that hard work is not just a phase but a permanent state, they carried something that no curriculum can teach. They carried a seriousness that was not performative but genuine," Justice Kant said.
Many of the students present on the occasion carry exactly this formation, he said.
"You grew up in homes where a university degree was not a given but a goal that the entire family organised itself around. The investment by your families was not made so that you could merely earn a comfortable living.
"It was made because they believed, even if they could not always articulate it, that an educated daughter or son would use what they learned to build something beyond themselves," the CJI said.
This belief is the bridge between "what your upbringing gave you and what the world is now entitled to expect from you", he told the students.
The CJI said it is often discussed what education provides to an individual.
It opens doors, boosts earning potential and enhances mobility, he said, adding that however, there is a fundamental question that a congregation at a central university should address.
"What does your education owe to the society that funded it? The resources that build these classrooms, the resources that paid your faculty and the resources that maintained the laboratories where you trained came from the public exchequer. Which means they were derived from citizens' earnings and taxes, many of whom will never set foot in a university themselves," he said.
"This fact creates an obligation. Not a sentimental one, but a structural one. A democracy does not invest in higher education so that its graduates may simply prosper. It invests so that they may govern themselves well...," Justice Kant said.
In the Ramayana, when Bharat was handed the throne of Ayodhya by his father's own decree, he chose to place Ram's "paduka" on the seat of power and govern from Nandigram as a trustee, not as a sovereign, he pointed out.
"This distinction between holding authority for yourself and holding it on behalf of others is what your obligation towards the public means," the CJI said.
He told the students that "wherever your careers take you, carry with you the awareness that our collective life depends on whether educated people choose to engage with the systems around them or simply benefit from them".
Giving the example of a "raider" in a Kabaddi game, the CJI told the students, "Watch the finest raiders carefully.... Their greatness is not in the distance they cover, but in the precision with which they judge the line between ambition and overreach.".
He told the students that as they advance in their chosen careers, they must carry the discipline their families have imparted, the endurance that this landscape has taught them and the straightforwardness that Haryana is known for.
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