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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England sticking with Key, McCullum and Stokes despite Ashes humbling
London (AP): England is not sacking anybody following the 4-1 Ashes loss in Australia.
A review of the tour by the England and Wales Cricket Board, announced within hours of the final match in January, was concluded on Monday. Firing people would “be the easy thing to do,” ECB chief executive Richard Gould said but he insisted, "This is not the time to throw everything out."
Managing director Rob Key, coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes kept their jobs after the best England side to go to Australia in 14 years lost the Ashes in 11 days with two games to spare.
“Moving people on can sometimes be the easy thing to do. That's not the route that we're going to take,” Gould said. “I've seen the driving ambition and determination that we're lucky enough to have within our leadership group to take the lessons from the Ashes and move forward.”
Gould previously was the chief executive of Bristol City soccer club and said the ECB would not follow the same route as soccer's hire-and-fire culture.
“Cricket is a very unique sport in that it takes a team of leadership ... it's not like football where there's a single point of failure or success with a manager," he said. He added the ECB would not “select or deselect management based on a popularity campaign.”
The main criticisms of England's tour were poor preparation, player misbehavior, and selection mistakes.
At a press conference at Lord's, Gould and Key said McCullum and Stokes have not had a “bust up,” they did not want McCullum to “completely change” but “to evolve,” the behavior of some players was “unprofessional,” there will be more consequences for underperforming, and a commitment to “better long-term planning” ahead of major test series.
Some changes were already implemented for the Twenty20 World Cup, where England reached the semifinals. Gould implied that performance saved McCullum.
Key acknowledged that England supporters would be disappointed to see the management team go unpunished.
“I know people want punishment and that people then should be sacked for that,” Key said. “That doesn't mean we don't feel like we've gone through some serious pain: Brendon, myself, Ben. It's been as tough a time as I think I've had.”
