Yateem Eye Center and Day Care Surgery opens
abu dhabi — Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, inaugurated the UAE’s most advanced eye care centre in Khalifa City A, Abu Dhabi.
The Yateem Eye Center and Day Care Surgery, is a highly-specialised health care centre with world class facilities and a team of medical professionals with strong clinical expertise.
The Yateem brand has been synonymous with high quality eye care in the GCC region since 1910. The Yateem Eye Center, is the brainchild of UAE’s leading optical expert; Nasser A Yateem. As the vice-chairman of Yateem Opticians retail optical chain, he identified the need for a specialty eye care centre in the UAE to meet the needs of the growing population in the region.
The Yateem Eye Center and Day Care Surgery unit was developed under the Nasser Yateem Group portfolio. The centre aims to be the UAE’s one stop destination for world class vision care services ranging from day care surgeries for the eye, Lasik surgery, vision therapy, dry eye clinic to diabetic vision care. The eye centre is one of the largest specialty centres in the UAE and caters to patients from both Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Residents of the UAE can now experience the latest in diagnostic/therapeutic technologies by skilled professionals under one roof. The facility also houses a family medicine clinic, a dedicated pharmacy and optical retail unit.
The centre is strategically located in Khalifa City A providing easy access to the residents of the area, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Northern Emirates. Each floor of the facility spans an impressive 1207 square metres and showcases modern architecture and interior decoration. The facility houses dedicated diagnostic rooms, examination rooms, consultation facilities, laser room and treatment rooms. With two operation theatres, a state of the art highly sterile Lasik facility, 6 beds and two VIP recovery rooms; the facility is one of the most advanced dedicated vision care center in the region.
One of the core features of the facility is the latest world class diagnostic equipment and surgical equipment sourced from across the globe, making this facility at par with the best eye hospitals in the world. In addition to this, the center has an optical retail unit with a vast range of optical brands.
Maybach Icons of Luxury: leather and apparel collection will also be retailed. The ground floor of the facility has a dedicated pharmacy that specialises in ophthalmic medications.
The clinical team
The ophthalmologist team of the centre consists of Dr Yogesh Kapoor, Dr Satyam Garudadri and Dr Ahmed Afra. Dr Yogesh, medical director of the facility, specialises in Lasik surgeries and has performed over 10,000 surgeries including highly complicated refractive error correction. He has over 24 years of experience and is a specialist on corneal disorders. Dr Satyam Garudadri is a vitreo retinal surgeon, whose area of expertise is diabetes related retinal complications, age related macular disorder and uveitis while Dr Ahmed Afra specialises in glaucoma and general ophthalmology. The family medicine clinic run by Dr Nadreen Gendeel (general practitioner) caters to general health complaints and acts as the first line of examination for many patients.
Additionally, the center has a dedicated team of optometrists, ophthalmic nurses, infection control specialists and other allied health care professionals.
The launch of Yateem Eye Center and Day Care Surgery by Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan marks a major milestone in the healthcare sector of the UAE. With an ever increasing usage of digital devices, the dry environmental conditions, increasing prevalence of diabetes and health complications; vision related complications are on the rise. The Yateem Eye Center aims to address these issues by specialised clinics and treatment modalities, specifically tailored for the UAE region.