Vikas Katoch News Today

Well, you may not need 80 prompts but using AI to plan a comprehensive itinerary can save you a tonne of time. Many travel enthusiasts and bloggers ha

Adomantra Digital appoints Vikas Pandey as Marketing and Business Head

Post-Covid, investors want to buy into existing healthcare businesses than build new

More insurers offer add-on benefits such as teleconsultations and wellness at same rates

Dubai: Insurers selling the Dh550 a year Dubai Health Authority mandated ‘basic’ health cover plan in Dubai have been told not to pad up these policies with additional benefits. And if they still want to offer ‘enhanced cover’, they can only sell these policies at a minimum premium of Dh750 a year. “The DHA (Dubai Health Authority) mandated that the minimum premium on any DHA-approved enhanced cover should not be less that Dh750 – and that’s excluding ‘Basmah’ and VAT,” said...

Dubai: The minimum premium rate to buy a ‘basic’ health insurance plan in Dubai could in for an increase from Dh550, according to senior sources in the local insurance and healthcare sectors. If so, this could be the first major premium increase in regulator-approved basic plans since their launch in 2014. “From insurers’ point of view this is much needed to stop insurers “subsidizing” this basic product,” said Mustafa Vazayil, Managing Director of Gargash Insurance, one of the to...

In February, authorities had dropped number of covered medicines from 2,000+ to 700

Dubai: Continuing its tradition of providing access to quality health care for all blue collar workers and the middle class, Right Health, a Dubai based affordable health care enterprise, inaugurated its 63rd clinic in Karama, Dubai on Wednesday. The state-of-the-art clinic which will integrate specialist consultation, diagnostic facilities and a pharmacy, was inaugurated by Awad Saghir Al Ketbi, director general of Dubai Health Authority. Dr Sanjay Paithankar, Managing Director of Right Health...

Free water and dates for workers ending their fast at clinics Saman Haziq/Dubai Filed on May 8, 2021 | Last updated on May 8, 2021 at 12.13 am A worker receives water and dates to end fast from a staff at a Right Health clinic. — Supplied photo UAE-based healthcare provider offers workers an opportunity to end their fast comfortably at their 60 clinics Around 10,000 blue-collar workers are expected to avail of free water and dates being offered by UAE-based healthcare provider Right H...

Dubai: Dubai residents holding a basic health insurance policy will need a new policy or an upgrade to keep buying prescribed medicines under insurance coverage. This comes after several branded medicine prescriptions that were earlier part of the Dh600 a year ‘Essential Benefits Plan’ were removed mid-February. The intention was to offer a unified set of medicines – principally generic ones - under the basic policy and help lower the burden on insurance companies from claims. “Any medi...