21 August 2011 (Dubai, UAE): Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai (Moorfields), the Dubai branch of the world renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, has signed an agreement with MetLife Alico under which Moorfields will join MetLife Alico's Preferred Network of Healthcare Providers and will provide specialist care and treatment to card holding patients covered by their company's health insurance policies.
Holders of MetLife Alico health insurance policies will now be able to access world class eye care services, consultations and treatment provided by Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai, which opened in Dubai in 2007 and treats more than 10,000 patients per year, with the added benefit and convenience of pre-approved cover for treatment and direct billing.
Dr Chris Canning, CEO and Medical Director at Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai, said: "We are pleased to sign this agreement with MetLife Alico and to join their Preferred Network of Healthcare Providers and look forward to providing care at Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai to patients under their health insurance programme. The agreement will help these patients benefit from the extensive medical care and emergency medical treatment provided by Moorfields."
The services and extent of treatment provided by Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai will be dependent upon the type of insurance cover held by individual patients.
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About Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai
Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai (MEHD) is the first overseas branch of Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the oldest and one of the largest centres for ophthalmic treatment, teaching and research in the world. Located at the Al Razi Medical Complex in Dubai Health Care City, the facility provides daycase surgery and outpatient diagnostic and treatment services, including emergency care, for a variety of surgical and non-surgical eye conditions. MEHD will also raise standards for research and teaching in the region through its partnership with the Harvard Medical School Dubai Center. MEHD is owned and managed by the NHS Foundation Trust, and maintains close links with London, including a telelink with sophisticated videoconferencing technology, to ensure that patients in the GCC receive the best eye care treatment in the world. For further information, please visit MEHD's website at www.moorfields.ae or call 04 429 7888.
About MetLife Alico:
MetLife, Inc. is a leading global provider of insurance and financial services with more than 140 years of experience and operations throughout the United States, Latin America, Japan, Asia Pacific, Europe and Middle East. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, MetLife, Inc. reaches 90 million customers in over 60 countries, is the largest life insurer in the United States and Mexico, and has relationships with more than 90 of the top 100 FORTUNE 500 companies, and over seventy percent of all Fortune 500 companies.
The MetLife companies offer life insurance, annuities, automobile and home insurance, retail banking and other financial services to individuals, as well as group insurance and retirement and savings products and services to corporations and other institutions.
In MEASA (Middle East, Africa and South Asia), MetLife Alico oversees 14 operations from its headquarters at the DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, starting from Bangladesh (1952), Lebanon (1953), Saudi Arabia (1954), Kuwait (1954), Jordan (1958), Bahrain (1960), United Arab Emirates (1962), Qatar (1962), Oman (1971), Turkey (1988), Pakistan (1995), Palestine (1996), Egypt (1997) and Nepal (2001).
1 #1 U.S. Life Insurer (Grp+Ind - based on policies in force) - LIMRA, June 2010
2 Estadisticas AMIS, June 2010
3 FORTUNE 500®, May 2010. FORTUNE 500® is a registered trademark of FORTUNE magazine, a division of Time, Inc.
Issued on behalf of Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai by WPR.
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