The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has stepped into the world of metaverse. This country is all set up to launch world’s first hospital in the metaverse, where patients could visit as avatars for consultations.
The hospital will be headed by International Business Conglomerate, Thumbay Group, and is expected to be operational by October 2022. The UAE believes that the launch of this metaverse hospital, it will boost medical tourism in the country.
A report by BTC Players suggests that the authorities governing UAE’s healthcare sector has hired a company for training the doctors on how to treat patients in the virtual world. As of now, the charging fee structure for the doctors in the metaverse is not finalised. However, we can expect it to be along the lines of telephonic consultation charges.
The news of using VR technology and face-recognising by the group has also come out. Vice-President of Thumbay, Akbar Moideen says that the integration of AI into the hospital system will let them identify a patient even through his car’s number plate and his face.
The Global medical tourism market will see a boost
At present, the worth of the Global medical tourism market is $167.4 billion. However, the market is expected to rocket to $441 billion by the year 2031.
Interestingly, increase in the demand for elective surgeries, and low cost of treatments have helped to facilitate more international treatments.
Adoption of Hitech in healthcare sector
The UAE’s private and public sectors have been seeing massive adoption of the metaverse in the last few years. Last year in January, the UAE Ministry of Health and Community Protection (MOHAP) unveiled the healthcare customer service centre in the metaverse.
Talking about Meta Health environment, here people can submit documents, request information, chat with people, pay fees, and much more.
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