Gulf Eye Center offers innovative solutions

Gulf Eye Center offers innovative solutions to economic challenges

"The impact of the worldwide financial crisis is as real for the healthcare sector as it is for other specialist sectors of industry", so says Dr Millicent Grim of Dubai-based Gulf Eye Center. She further comments, "In recent months, we have seen a drop in patient spending but not in patient numbers. This trend is unprecedented during the thirteen years I have practiced in the Gulf: I have not seen anything like this before." However, rather than focus on the challenge, Dr Grim is optimistic about finding solutions.

"We need to look at things from a different angle and with a positive perspective," says Dr Grim. "Currently we are looking at ways to help patients afford elective procedures like Lasik surgery and other eye procedures that are not covered by medical insurance."

She explains that, in general, people save on things that are not essential for survival in tight financial times like these. As a result, cosmetic and elective surgery tends be pushed aside. "Not everyone can afford a once off payment for non essential procedures, and accessing a personal loan is not that easy anymore," she says.

With this in mind, Gulf Eye Center has decided to give patients the option of paying for certain procedures with post-dated cheques; and other incentives for regular clients or groups are on offer. Adds Dr Grim, "This is not a risk we are taking, but rather an opportunity for us to assist our patients through a difficult financial and physical recovery period."

 

For further information:

Website www.gulfeyecenter.com

Email eyedoc@emirates.net.ae

Telephone +971-4-3291977

Suite 615, Fairmont Hotel

Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai

 

About Dr Grim

Dr Millicent Grim has been in the Middle East for just over twelve years and in Dubai for the last seven years. She was the first ophthalmologist to introduce Lasik surgery in Oman and among the first to do so in the UAE. Dr Grim was also responsible for introducing Conductive Keratoplasty and Cross Linking procedures to the region.