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Cardiology Department

The very best in cardiac treatment...

Zulekha Hospital's Cardiology Department is equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure and experienced cardiologists to ensure the wellbeing of your heart. The department is capable of invasive and non-invasive investigations and has been routinely performing diagnostic and interventional procedures. Alongside the routine diagnostic invasive procedures like Angiography and Catheterization studies, the department performs Coronary and Peripheral Angioplasty with stenting and Balloon Valvuloplasty for all Valvular Lesions. Device and Coil Closure of PDA and device closure of ASD are being performed on patients of all ages. The services available at our Cardiac-care Unit are listed below:

Invasive Cardiology

  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Coronary Intervention
  • Peripheral Angiogram and Interventions
  • Permanent Pacemaker Placement
  • AICD/CRT Placement
  • ASD/ PFO closure

Non-Invasive Cardiology

  • 24-hour Holter Monitor
  • 2D Echocardiogram
  • Transesophageal Echocardiogram
  • Exercise Stress Echocardiogram
  • Exercise Stress Test

Cardiac Surgery

  • Coronary artery bypass grafting
  • Valve repair
  • Valve replacement
  • Congenital heart surgery
  • Beating heart surgery
  • Minimally invasive Cardiac surgery

Thoracic Surgery

  • Lung surgeries
  • Surgery for lung cancer
  • Video assisted Thoracic surgery
  • Chemo port insertion for Chemotherapy
  • Surgery for tuberculosis
  • Decortication for thickened pleura

Vascular surgery

  • Peripheral arterial bypass
  • Endoscopic Vascular surgery
  • Arteriovenous fistula creation for dialysis
  • Treatment for Deep Venous thrombosis
  • Laser therapy (EVLT) for varicose veins
  • Aortic surgeries
  • Treatment of Ischemic and Diabetic wounds

Cardiac Device Clinic

The Cardiac Device Clinic at Zulekha Hospital provides ongoing follow-up care, regular evaluation, and management of cardiac devices (pacemakers/ICDs).

The staff provides education, evaluation, and troubleshooting for complex heart device issues and offer remote monitoring to patients with Pacemakers, Biventricular Pacemaker, Implantable Loop Recorder, and Implantable Cardiac Devices (ICDs).

Our goal is to provide safe, compassionate, and therapeutic care for patients undergoing device procedures.

Procedures

  • Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
  • An ICD is a battery-powered device placed under the skin that keeps track of one’s heart rate. Thin wires connect the ICD to the heart. If an abnormal heart rhythm is detected the device will deliver an electric shock to restore a normal heartbeat if the heart is beating chaotically and much too fast.

    ICDs have been very useful in preventing sudden death in patients with known, sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. Studies have shown that they may have a role in preventing cardiac arrest in high-risk patients who haven't had, but are at risk for, life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias.

  • Pacemaker
  • A pacemaker is a small device that helps one’s heart beat more regularly. It does this with a small electric stimulation that helps control the heartbeat. The doctor puts the pacemaker under the skin on the chest, just under the collarbone. It’s hooked up to the heart with tiny wires. One may need a pacemaker to keep the heart beating properly. This helps the body get the blood and oxygen it needs. Some people just need a pacemaker for a short time (like after a heart attack) and may use a kind that’s outside the skin.

  • Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
  • Arrhythmias are irregular heart rhythms and can be caused by a variety of reasons, including age, heart damage, medications and genetics. In heart failure patients CRT, or biventricular pacing, is used to help improve the heart’s rhythm and the symptoms associated with the arrhythmia.

    The procedure involves implanting a half-dollar sized pacemaker, usually just below the collarbone. Three wires (leads) connected to the device monitor the heart rate to detect heart rate irregularities and emit tiny pulses of electricity to correct them. In effect, it is "resynchronizing" the heart.

Adult Cardiac Surgery

Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Bypass surgery is performed frequently nowadays, both in men and women. Bypass surgery is meant for patients with clogged (coronary) arteries of the heart, where medications, ballooning or stenting cannot help anymore. Bypass surgery in advanced cases of heart artery disease can be the more promising solution to pursue. Bypass surgery in our times can be performed safely and efficiently, at very low risk, depending on every patient's history and concurrent problems. 

Reason for the Procedure

  • One of the most common and effective procedures to manage blockage of blood to the heart muscle.
  • Improves the supply of blood and oxygen to the heart.
  • Relieves chest pain (angina).
  • Reduces risk of heart attack.
  • Improves ability for physical activity that has been limited by angina or ischemia

Valvular Heart surgery

Heart valve surgery is a procedure to treat heart valve disease. Heart valve disease involves at least one of the four heart valves not working properly. Heart valves keep blood flowing in the correct direction through your heart.

The four valves are the mitral valve, tricuspid valve, pulmonary valve and aortic valve. Each valve has flaps — called leaflets for the mitral and tricuspid valves and cusps for the aortic and pulmonary valves. These flaps open and close once during each heartbeat. Valves that don't open or close properly disrupt blood flow through your heart to your body.

In heart valve surgery, your surgeon repairs or replaces the affected heart valves. Many surgical approaches can be used to repair or replace heart valves, including open-heart surgery or minimally invasive heart surgery.

Your treatment depends on several factors, including your age, your health, the condition of the affected heart valve and the severity of your condition.

Aortic root surgery

Aortic root surgery is a procedure to treat an enlarged section, or aneurysm of the aorta. The aorta is the large blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body. The aortic root is located near where the aorta and heart connects.

Why it's done

Doctors perform aortic root surgery to prevent a burst aneurysm. They also perform it to prevent a tear in the inner layer of the aorta's wall (aortic dissection). They also do it to prevent the enlarged aorta from stretching the attached aortic valve. Aortic aneurysms near the aortic root may be related to Marfan syndrome and other heart or inherited conditions.

Minimally invasive heart surgery

Minimally invasive heart surgery involves making small incisions in the right side of your chest to reach the heart between the ribs, rather than cutting through the breastbone, as is done in open-heart surgery.

Minimally invasive heart surgery can be performed to treat a variety of heart conditions. Compared with open-heart surgery, this type of surgery might mean less pain and a quicker recovery for many people

Pediatric Heart Surgery

Your child's heart is not like an adult's. It's not like any other child's heart. At Zulekha Hospital, we understand that. Our pediatric heart surgeons perform a broad range of children's heart surgeries and provide the unique care your child needs. They also are part of a highly skilled, compassionate team that's dedicated to delivering the best care to achieve the best outcomes for children of all ages

Heart surgery in children is done to repair heart defects a child is born with (congenital heart defects) and heart diseases a child gets after birth that need surgery. The surgery is needed for the child's wellbeing.

Description

There are many kinds of heart defects. Some are minor, and others are more serious. Defects can occur inside the heart or in the large blood vessels outside the heart. Some heart defects may need surgery right after the baby is born. For others, your child may be able to safely wait for months or years to have surgery.

Common Types of Heart Defects in children:-

  • Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)

    This is a hole in the wall (septum) that separates the two upper chambers of the heart. This defect allows oxygen-rich blood to leak into the oxygen-poor blood chambers in the heart. A small hole may close on its own, but a larger one usually requires device closure or surgery.

  • Ventricle Septal Defect (VSD)

    This defect involves a hole in the wall (septum) separating the two lower chambers of the heart. The oxygen-rich blood then gets pumped back to the lungs instead of out to the body, causing the heart to pump harder. A small hole may close on its own, but a larger one usually requires device closure or surgery.

  • Transposition Of The Great Arteries (TGA)

    This heart defect, which is present at birth, the two main arteries leading out of the heart, the pulmonary artery and the aorta, are switched in position or transposed.

  • CAVC Atrioventricular (AV)

     Canal defect is a large hole in the center of the heart. It's located where the wall (septum) between the upper chambers (atria) joins the wall between the lower chambers (ventricles). This septal defect involves both upper and lower chambers. Also, the tricuspid and mitral valves that normally separate the heart's upper and lower chambers aren't formed as individual valves. Instead, a single large valve forms that crosses the defect in the wall between the two sides of the heart.

  • Coarctation of the aorta 

    In this condition the aorta (the main artery that carries blood from the heart to the body) is narrowed or constricted.

    In most children, the cause isn't known. Some children can have other heart defects along with coarctation.

    Coarctation obstructs blood flow from the heart to the lower part of the body. Blood pressure increases above the constriction. The blood pressure is much higher than normal in the left pumping chamber (left ventricle) and the heart must work harder to pump blood through the constriction in the aorta. This can cause thickening (hypertrophy) and damage to the overworked heart muscle.

  • Aortic pulmonary shunt

     A pulmonary shunt is a pathological condition which results when the alveoli of the lungs are perfused with blood as normal, but ventilation (the supply of air) fails to supply the perfused region. In other words, the ventilation/perfusion ratio (the ratio of air reaching the alveoli to blood perfusing them) is zero

  • Tetralogy of Fallot

    (teh-TRAL-uh-jee of fuh-LOW) is caused by a combination of four heart defects that are present at birth (congenital).

     These defects, which affect the structure of the heart, cause oxygen-poor blood to flow out of the heart and to the rest of the body. Infants and children with tetralogy of Fallot might have blue-tinged skin because their blood doesn't carry enough oxygen.

    Tetralogy of Fallot is often diagnosed during infancy or soon after. However, tetralogy of Fallot might not be detected until later in life in some adults, depending on the severity of the defects and symptoms.

    With early diagnosis followed by appropriate surgical treatment, most children and adults who have tetralogy of Fallot live relatively normal lives, though they'll need regular medical care throughout life and might have restrictions on exercise.

Our Cardiology Specialist

  • Dubai
  • Sharjah
  • Dr. Fayaz Shawl
  • Dr. Chidanand Bedjirgi
  • Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Helmy
  • Dr. Mohamed Shehata
  • Dr. Shaheen Ahmad
  • Dr. Rajan Maruthanayagam
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Dr. Fayaz Shawl

MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

(Visit Dates : 17th - 20th February & 5th - 8th May, 2025)

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Work Experience

  • Dr. Shawl is currently the Director of Interventional Cardiology at Adventist Healthcare, White Oak Medical center, Silver Spring - Maryland, USA as well as clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., USA & Visiting Interventional Cardiologist to Zulekha Hospital Dubai since 2006.
  • In 1977, Dr. Shawl moved to the United States from UK and completed his cardiology fellowship at The Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. (Maj.) Shawl brought the military into the balloon age when he performed the first PTCA in the United States Military (Army, Navy, Air Force) at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1981. Between 1979 and now, Dr. Shawl has retained clinical appointments at Georgetown University School of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, while developing leadership roles in Interventional Cardiology at both Washington Adventist Hospital and George Washington University Hospital.
  • Dr. Fayaz Shawl has been a pioneer in virtually every area of interventional cardiology since he performed the first angioplasty at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC in 1981. Dr Shawl, having performed more than 20,000 angioplasty procedures, is considered among few other interventionists in the world.
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Dr. Chidanand Bedjirgi

MBBS, MS, Mch(CTVS), FAIS, FCCP

Specialist Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon

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Work Experience

  • Dr. Chidanand Bedjirgi has 17 years of experience in JCI accredited hospitals.He is a gold medalist and University topper.He has done 3500 Cardiac,2700 Thoracic and 2200 Vascular surgical procedures independently.
  • He worked as Specialist Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgeon for 4 years in UAE in private hospital prior to joining Zulekha hospital.
  • He worked as Consultant Visiting Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgeon for  Last 4 years in India.
  • He worked as Consultant Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgeon at Sagar hospital, Bangalore India.
  • Dr.Chidanand Worked as Junior Consultant in CTVS at Apollo hospital,Bangalore.He was an Assistant professor in Surgery at KBN Medical college,Gulbarga,teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
  • Life member of Association of Surgeons of India (Memb. No. : 12,754)
  • Life Member of Association of Minimal access surgeons of India (Memb. No. : 71)
  • Life member of Indian Association of Cardio-thoracic and Vascular surgeons(Memb no.20085026)
  • Life member of European association of Cardio-thoracic surgeons(EACTS)-Memb no.279937.
  • Fellow of American college of Chest(No.338440)
  • Life Member of Vascular Society of India(VSI).
  • Life member of Society of Thoracic Surgery(STS),USA.
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Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Helmy

M.B.B.S, MD Cardiothoracic Surgery

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon

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Work Experience

  • Dr Helmy has more than 30 years of experience
  • He was Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Cairo University Kasr al Eainy Hospital.
  • He was also Consultant of cardiac surgery at Nasser Institute Hospital.
  • DAR Al Fouad Hospital, Sohag Centre of Cardiac Surgery.
  • AFSA (Jean Monnet St Etienne) (2002 – 2003).
  • Member of the European society of cardiothoracic surgery EACTS
  • Reviewer and co editor of the Egyptian journal of cardiothoracic surgery.
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Dr. Mohamed Shehata

MBBCH, MD Cardiology, FESC, FSCAI

Consultant Interventional Cardiology

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Work Experience

  • Dr Mohamed Shehata has over 18 years of experience working as an Interventional Cardiologist. Prior to joining Zulekha Hospital Dubai he has been associated with Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, and Thumbay & Saudi German Hospital as Consultant Interventional Cardiologist.
  • Dr. Shehata is a fellow of European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and Society of Cardiovascular Angiography & Intervention (SCAI, USA). He has also served as Associate Professor of Cardiology in Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt).
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Dr. Shaheen Ahmad

MBBS, MD Medicine (AIIMS Delhi), DM Cardiology (PGIMER, Chandigarh), FACC

Specialist Interventional Cardiologist

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Work Experience

  • Dr Shaheen has over 10 years of experience working as an Interventional Cardiologist and had an opportunity to hold different positions at various tertiary care centers in India. He served as a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Paras HMRI Hospital, Assistant Professor & Head of the Department at AIIMS, Associate Director Interventional Cardiologist at Jayprabha Medanata Hospital in Patna, India. He specializes in coronary and primary angioplasties, implantation of pacemaker, AICD, Cardiac Resynchronization therapy (CRT-P/CRT-D) and structural interventions such as balloon mitral valvotomy (BMV), BPV, BAV and device closure.
  • Prior to joining Zulekha Hospital Dr Shaheen worked at Jayprabha Medanata Hospital in Patna, India. He played a key role in establishing and developing the cardiology department and interventional services at AIIMS Patna as the Head of the Department. He has presented cardiac intervention cases at Euro PCR -2023 in Paris. He is member of ‘Fellow of America College of Cardiology (FACC)’.
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Dr. Rajan Maruthanayagam

MD (Medicine), DM (Cardiology)

Specialist Interventional Cardiologist

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Work Experience

  • Extensive experience in complex coronary interventions, Pacemaker implantation including biventricular pacing and endovascular stenting for aortic aneurysm.
  • Associated with Frontier Cardiac Care - A unit of Dr. K.M. Cherian Heart Foundation, Chennai, Yasodha Superspeciality Hospital, Hyderabad & MIOT Hospitals as HOD - Interventional Cardiology.
  • MD Gen Medicine from prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi & DM Cardiology from Madras Medical College.
  • Dr. Wael Richane
  • Dr. Chidanand Bedjirgi
  • Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Helmy
  • Dr. Abdul Hafiz Mahmdouh Farra
  • Dr. Mahmoud Farouk Mohamed Mohamed Elmahdi
  • Dr. Yazan Azzam
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Dr. Wael Richane

Inter University Diploma of Medical Specialty in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery D.I.M (PhD. in medicine) Faculty of Medicine

Specialist Cardio Vascular Surgeon

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Work Experience

  • Dr Wael has more than 20 years of experience in cardiovascular surgery from the most reputed hospitals in France, Syria, Poland.
  • He has done more than 7200 cardio-vascular and thoracic operations of different types and in different situations (elective, urgent and emergent) also 4000 coronaries, 1000 valvulars, 700 pediatrics under one year, 500 thoracic, 1000 vascular.
  • He has worked as Consultant Cardio-Vascular Surgeon with various Hospitals like
  • Al Sharq Hospital Fujairah- UAE
  • High technology university hospital, Georgia Tbilisi
  • Private Hospitals - Damascus, Syria
  • American Hospital Paris – Paris, France
  • Silesia 
  • Center of Heart Diseases Zabrze, Poland
  • Al-Assad University hospital , 17 Nissan street., Damascus, Syria
  • Tichrin Military hospital , Damascus, Syria
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Dr. Chidanand Bedjirgi

MBBS, MS, Mch(CTVS), FAIS, FCCP

Specialist Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon

(Appointment is subjected to the availability of doctor)

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Work Experience

  • Dr. Chidanand Bedjirgi has 17 years of experience in JCI accredited hospitals.He is a gold medalist and University topper.He has done 3500 Cardiac,2700 Thoracic and 2200 Vascular surgical procedures independently.
  • He worked as Specialist Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgeon for 4 years in UAE in private hospital prior to joining Zulekha hospital.
  • He worked as Consultant Visiting Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgeon for  Last 4 years in India.
  • He worked as Consultant Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgeon at Sagar hospital, Bangalore India.
  • Dr.Chidanand Worked as Junior Consultant in CTVS at Apollo hospital,Bangalore.He was an Assistant professor in Surgery at KBN Medical college,Gulbarga,teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
  • Life member of Association of Surgeons of India (Memb. No. : 12,754)
  • Life Member of Association of Minimal access surgeons of India (Memb. No. : 71)
  • Life member of Indian Association of Cardio-thoracic and Vascular surgeons(Memb no.20085026)
  • Life member of European association of Cardio-thoracic surgeons(EACTS)-Memb no.279937.
  • Fellow of American college of Chest(No.338440)
  • Life Member of Vascular Society of India(VSI).
  • Life member of Society of Thoracic Surgery(STS),USA.
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Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Helmy

M.B.B.S, MD Cardiothoracic Surgery

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon

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Work Experience

  • Dr Helmy has more than 30 years of experience
  • He was Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Cairo University Kasr al Eainy Hospital.
  • He was also Consultant of cardiac surgery at Nasser Institute Hospital.
  • DAR Al Fouad Hospital, Sohag Centre of Cardiac Surgery.
  • AFSA (Jean Monnet St Etienne) (2002 – 2003).
  • Member of the European society of cardiothoracic surgery EACTS
  • Reviewer and co editor of the Egyptian journal of cardiothoracic surgery.
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Dr. Abdul Hafiz Mahmdouh Farra

MBBS, MD (Cardiology)

Specialist Cardiologist

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Work Experience

  • Dr. Abdul Hafiz has over five years of experience in the field of Cardiology. He has earned his post-graduation from Al Bassel Heart Institute, one of the largest cardiac centers in Damascus, Syria. He is a member of European Society of Cardiology. He has served as a Specialist Cardiologist in Medical Care Hospital in Syria and been with Zulekha Hospital Sharjah since 2020.
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Dr. Mahmoud Farouk Mohamed Mohamed Elmahdi

Bachelor of Medicine from Cairo University Egypt, Master Degree In Cardiovascular Medicine from Cairo University Egypt, Doctorate Degree In Cardiovascular Medicine from Cairo University Egypt, A certified 3 year clinical fellowship in Complex Coronary & Peripheral Intervention at Careggi Hospital Florence University Hospital, Florence, Italy, Licensed Interventional Cardiologist at MOH, DHA, DHCC UAE

Consultant Interventional Cardiology

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Work Experience

Dr Mahmoud Farouk has over 13 years of experience in the field of Interventional Cardiology. Prior joining Zulekha Hospital, he served in Amina Hospital, Ajman as Consultant Interventional Cardiology and Head of Cardiology Department. Dr Farouk had been associated with multiple hospitals in UAE and Egypt as a Consultant Interventional Cardiology and Head of Cardiology Department and also worked as Assistant Professor of Cardiology in Cairo University, Egypt in his primary years of practice.

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Dr. Yazan Azzam

MBBS, MD (Cardiology)

Specialist Cardiologist

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Work Experience

  • Dr.Yazan has over four years of experience in the field of Cardiology. He has earned his post-graduation from Al Bassel Heart Institute, one of the largest cardiac centers in Damascus, Syria. He is a member of European Society of Cardiology. He has served as a Specialist Cardiologist in AL Enaya Hospital, Syria and been with Zulekha Hospital Sharjah since 2021.

Recognition

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

presenting the Dubai Quality Award to

Dr. Zulekha Daud,

Founder and Chairperson

Ms. Zanubia Shams,

Co-chairperson of Zulekha Healthcare Group.

Zulekha Hospitals is proud to receive

the Patient Satisfaction Award

Recognition is for companies receiving
an excellent satisfaction rating.

Zulekha Hospital honored with Dubai Chamber CSR Label 2016

The prestigious Dubai Chamber CSR Label was presented to Dr. Zulekha Daud, Founder and Chairperson, Zulekha Healthcare Group for the fourth consecutive year recognizing our commitment to corporate social responsibility and sustainability.

The European Accreditation Council for
Bariatric Surgery, has awarded:

Zulekha Hospital

With the Centre of Excellence for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery accreditation.

Our Hospitals

Zulekha Hospital Dubai

Zulekha Hospital Dubai is a 179 bed hospital established in 2004 which offers both inpatient and outpatient care covering a wide range of medical and surgical specialties. The facility boasts state-of-the-art operation theatre arrangements, emergency services, labor rooms and includes multiple centers of excellence such as Cardiology, Plastic Surgery, General Surgery, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Urology, Gastroenterology, Dermatology and Physiotherapy.

204 Rd, Al Qusais Industrial Area, Dubai, U.A.E.

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Zulekha Hospital Sharjah

Zulekha Hospital Sharjah is a full-fledged, multi-disciplinary hospital with Out-patient and In-patient facilities. What started off as a 30 bed set up with basic facilities for gynecology, obstetrics, surgery, medicine and pediatrics in 1992, today boasts of 185 beds, sprawled over an area of 290,000 square ft.


Al Zahra Street, Sharjah, U.A.E.

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