Thumbay Group signs MoU with Serbian government
To establish Gulf Medical University
UAE(Ajman), Oct 23: Thumbay Group signs MoU with Serbian government to establish Gulf Medical University, Thumbay Hospital in Serbia.
Thumbay Group has entered into an agreement with the Government of Serbia, to establish Gulf Medical University and Thumbay Hospital in Belgrade. The agreement was signed on 22nd October 2018 by Dr. Thumbay Moideen, Founder President of Thumbay Group on behalf of Thumbay Group and Dr. ZlatiborLoncar- Minister of Health of the Republic of Serbia and Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade and Prof. MladenSarcevic – Minister of Education of the Republic of Serbia, representing the Serbian government.
Besides the ministers, the high-level delegation from Serbia included Prof. Dr. SanjaRadojevic-Škodric- Director of National Health Insurance Fund and professor of Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade; Prof. DrMilikaAsanin- Director of the Clinical Center of Serbia and Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Ms. Ana LangovićMilićević - Deputy Minister of Education and Mr. Marko Pavlovic- Advisor of Minister of Health. The delegates were presented with the mission and future directions of Thumbay Group and Gulf Medical University and they toured the advanced facilities for education and research at Thumbay Medicity. The MoU was signed in the presence of the Serbian Ambassador to UAE.
Thumbay Group’s University and hospital in Belgrade will be built in phases, expected to be fully operational in 2020. “Thumbay Group is looking for equity partners to invest in the project, and we are preparing to go public by 2023,” said Dr. Thumbay Moideen. He further said that Thumbay Group was honored to sign the MoU with the government of Serbia. “We look forward with great enthusiasm to strengthening our collaborations and to provide new opportunities for mutual cooperation in the areas of education, healthcare and research, our three core areas.
Dr. Thumbay Moideen added that the MoU was part of Thumbay Group’s strategic plans which aim to increase the size of its businesses about ten times and increase its employee strength to 25,000 by 2022, apart from expanding its global spread. Accordingly, the group plans to open three new University campuses across 3 different countries. In addition, the strategic plans also envision an increase in capacity of the Thumbay academic hospital network to 1000 beds in the UAE, 1,500 beds in India and 750 beds elsewhere in the Gulf and in Africa.
Two more agreements were signed with the delegation. The clinical cooperation agreement between Clinical Center Serbia and Thumbay Group for clinical training of the students of Gulf Medical University – Belgrade, was signed by Dr. Thumbay Moideen with the Dean, University of Belgrade and Director – Clinical Training Center – Belgrade. The MoU between Clinical Center Serbia and Gulf Medical University – UAE for academic cooperation was signed by Prof. Hossam Hamdy, Chancellor of GMU with the Dean, University of Belgrade and Director – Clinical Training Center – Belgrade.
Owned and operated by Thumbay Group, Gulf Medical University (GMU), Ajman is the biggest private medical university in the Middle East region. Founded in 1998, it has students from over 80 countries and faculty/staff from around 25 countries. The Gulf Medical University Academic Health System (GMUAHS) is the first of its kind in the region’s private sector. Thumbay Hospital is the biggest private academic hospital network in the region, operating under the healthcare division of Thumbay Group and serving patients from around 175 nationalities. GMU together with the Thumbay Hospital network trains close to trains close to 20 percent of the doctors and 60 percent of the healthcare professionals in the UAE.
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Bhopal gas tragedy: Effects of leak seen in next generation of survivors, says ex-forensic doctor
Bhopal (PTI): The effects of poisonous gases that leaked from the Union Carbide factory in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal 40 years ago were seen in the next generations of those who survived the tragedy, a former government forensic doctor has said.
At least 3,787 people were killed, and more than five lakh were affected after a toxic gas leaked from the pesticide factory in the city on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
Speaking at an event held by organisations of gas tragedy survivors on Saturday, Dr D K Satpathy, former head of the forensics department of Bhopal's Gandhi Medical College, said he performed 875 post-mortems on the first day of the disaster and witnessed 18,000 autopsies the next five years.
Sathpathy claimed Union Carbide had denied questions about the effects of poisonous gases on unborn children of women survivors and said effects would not cross the placental barrier in the womb in any condition.
He said blood samples of pregnant women who died in the tragedy were examined, and it was found that 50 per cent of poisonous substances found in the mother were also found in the child in her womb.
Children born to surviving mothers had the poisonous substances in their system, and this affected the health of the next generation, Sathpathy claimed and questioned why research on this was stopped.
Such effects will continue for generations, he said.
Satpathy said it was said that MIC gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant, and when it came in contact with water, thousands of gases were formed, and some of these caused cancer, blood pressure and liver damage.
Rachna Dhingra of Bhopal Group for Information and Action said Satpathy, who carried out most autopsies, and other first responders in the 1984 disaster, including the senior doctors in the emergency ward and persons involved in mass burials, narrated their experiences during the event.
Rashida Bee, president of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh, a poster exhibition covering every aspect of the disaster will be held till December 4 to mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy.
An anniversary rally will be organised, with focus on global corporate crimes such as industrial pollution and climate change, she said.
