<p><em>Mr Mearza recently had the pleasure of visiting one of the United Arab Emirate’s premier hospitals, the <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.clevelandclinicabudhabi.ae/en/pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Cleveland Clinic in Abu Dhabi</a> along with two other consultant surgeons from the UK, Mr Shahram Kashani and Dr Deepak Pabari.</em></p> <p>Completed in 2015, it is the flagship hospital of the UAE and part of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA.</p> <p>Essentially, it is a unique and unparalleled extension of the United States based Cleveland Clinic’s model of care compromising a multi-disciplinary hospital designed to reduce the need for patients to travel abroad for their treatment.</p> <p>The hospital comprises 5 clinical floors, 3 diagnostic and treatment levels and 13 floors of critical and acute inpatient units, a state of the art lecture theatre and a simulation centre for teaching the surgeons and doctors of the future.</p> <p>The 364 bed luxury hospital currently provides over 30 medical and surgical specialties with specialist centres of excellence including ophthalmology, cardiology, vascular disorders, neurological disorders, respiratory and critical care.</p> <p>The architecture and facilities are unlike any other hospital in the World and shows what can be achieved where visionary architecture is combined with the healthcare requirements of a hospital and of course unlimited funds!</p> <p>The result is a stunning building with an amazing viewing gallery, eateries and all the equipment and gadgets one could wish for as a clinician.</p> <p>If only it could be replicated in the UK!!</p>