Gitex 2022: Medcare emerges as UAE’s first metaverse hospital

Gitex 2022: Medcare emerges as UAE’s first metaverse hospital

Healthcare chain aims to provide accessibility and affordability with full-scale Web 3.0 rollout

By Joydeep Sen Gupta Published: Fri 14 Oct 2022, 5:47 PM

Medcare Hospitals & Medical Centres, under Aster DM Healthcare, has emerged as the UAE's first medical facility to be present in the metaverse, winning the historic race to the future by planning a full-scale rollout of their hospitals on Web 3.0.

Medcare is one of the largest healthcare provider chains in Dubai and Sharjah.

This is in line with Dubai's vision to become the world's metaverse hub with the government's strategy announced this July.

To achieve this objective, Medcare partnered with BIOMETAVERSE and announced its virtual existence by going live on October 11, 2022.

Hosted on a public cloud within the geographical limits of the UAE, the Metaverse healthcare facility aims to provide a glimpse of the real-life experience at Medcare Women & Children Hospital.

Medcare will use the metaverse in their medical tourism initiatives, giving potential patients a chance to have an Immersive visual experience of the hospital facility, allowing for trust and transparency.

Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director, Aster DM Healthcare, said, "With the introduction in the metaverse, we will set the benchmark for immersive virtual patient experience across the Medcare network.