Thumbay Group will open the first entirely virtual hospital in the UAE. Patients will send their avatars to the metaverse. The healthcare provider has already started work on the project.
“We will let patients see what a hospital looks like in the metaverse. This is done as part of medical tourism,” explained Dr. Tumbai Moidin.
Thumbay Group offers augmented and virtual reality technologies for long-term patients. The virtual hospital is designed to help people in other cases as well—for example, people with disabilities.
Tumbai Moidin talked about how this might work. In his hospital, a patient from Sri Lanka was paralyzed after a car accident. Only his brain was functioning. The hospital provided him with AR and VR headsets. He could experience and virtually visit his home in Sri Lanka with the help of technology. This motivated him to recover as soon as possible and return home.
Thumbay Group is integrating artificial intelligence for its initiative. The AI will identify the patient at every stage of their healthcare experience. This will reduce the waiting time: his card will already be prepared at the registry, and the necessary medicines will be prepared in advance at the pharmacy.
The UAE Health Organization has hired a company to train all its doctors in working with patients in the metaverse. By the time the Thumbay Group launches the project, high-class specialists will be waiting in the metaverse for patients.
