UAE digital hospital ready for download by August

UAE digital hospital ready for download by August

Mulk E-Hospital will have some 2,000 doctors on board, and the service will be accessible round the clock, any time of the year.





Seeing a doctor in front of a smartphone screen has swiftly become part of the world's new normal. In the UAE, telehealth is officially taking root - with the region's first digital hospital ready for download by next month.

Mulk E-Hospital of Dubai-based Mulk Healthcare is not going to have those white walls and hundreds of beds - but it will have some 2,000 doctors on board. And it can assure you that if you need to see a doctor in the middle of the night, you'll find one just by swiping on your screen.

This e-hospital is an app that can be downloaded from the first week of August. Services will be launched by the middle of the month.

"So far, we have 300 doctors registered with us from the UAE and 1,700 abroad. It is a ticking clock. By the time of the launch date, we will have most of the top healthcare providers from the UAE on board," Dr Shafi Ul Mulk, president of Mulk Healthcare, said during a two-hour long virtual Press conference on