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MetLife Alico provides free summer health check for families in advance of the holiday travel season and Holy Month of Ramadan

20 hospitals/clinics across the Gulf host 'Wellness Day' by MetLife Alico - free 5-minute health check for medical cardholders
19 July 2011 (Dubai, UAE): MetLife Alico, in conjunction with renowned medical providers in the Gulf, is continuing its free Wellness Day campaign across 20 hospitals and clinics in the UAE (14 in Abu Dhabi and Dubai) and GCC countries, for families who are medical cardholders. The free 5-minute health checks are an opportunity to create peace of mind for the whole family in advance of summer travel and Ramadan, which coincides with the holiday season this year.

The Wellness Day health checks are provided free of charge to any MetLife Alico cardholder and family members covered through their employers, on a walk-in basis with no appointment required, at any of the participating hospitals and community clinics, from 10am till 3pm, on Saturday July 23^rd .

This is the third Wellness Day organised by the company as part of its campaign to highlight the vital importance of health screening, following the pilot event held in January 2011 in Dubai, in which 40% of the participating visitors were found to have an irregular health indicator that needed addressing. The 5-minute checks include blood sugar, blood pressure and body mass index (BMI), with a report issued immediately after the checks.

The health issues revealed through the pilot Wellness Day included hypertension, pre-diabetes and obesity, which are the main health challenges faced by the region. The Wellness Day campaign therefore focuses on these issues with the aim of helping the community understand the health and financial implications of some of their lifestyle choices and to encourage them to start taking better care of their health.

"We were very concerned at the high level of irregular health indicators we saw at the pilot event," says Dr Shafiq, Medical Network Director at MetLife Alico. "Routine health screening makes sense to the whole community - and the whole family - and especially with the high incidence of some serious conditions, such as diabetes, in the region. Ignoring the health risks of poor lifestyle choices is not an option and it is the whole family that suffers as a result of ill health amongst any of the members. Regular health checks are essential to protect your family's health and wellbeing, especially at a time of year which makes specific demands - through the summer season when ill health while travelling can be complicated - and for a safe and healthy Ramadan for those families fasting through the Holy Month."

The aim of this Wellness Day initiative is to stress the importance of health checks for all the family members in advance of prolonged travel and special religious and cultural occasions such as the Holy Month of Ramadan.

Dr. Pietie Loubser, Chief Clinical Officer at EHL Management Services, adds: Through offering these simple but important health checks together with MetLife Alico, our aim is to steer the community towards regular health screening and encouraging every family to choose a healthier lifestyle."

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Notes to editors:
The participating hospitals are:
Dubai
City Hospital
Welcare Hospital
Welcare Ambulatory Care Center
Emirates Diagnostic Clinic
Welcare Clinic in Mirdif
Welcare clinic Qusais
Welcare Clinic Ibn Battuta Mall
The Dubai Mall Clinic
Meadows clinic
Arabian Ranches Clinic
Abu Dhabi
Life Line Hospital
Life Line Hospital - Day Care Surgery Musaffah
Al Dar Medical Centre - Al Raha
Al Dar Centre - Yas
Sharjah
Zulekha Hospital
Ajman
Ibin Sina Medical Centre
Bahrain
Al Kindi Hospital
Oman
Al Rafa Hospital
Kuwait
Al Seef Hospital
Qatar
Doctors Polyclinic

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.

Media Contacts:
Hatem Ellouze
MetLife Alico
hatem.ellouze@metlifealico.com

Jonathan Walsh
WPR
Dubai
Mob: +971 50 4588610
Email: jon@wprme.com

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