Gulf Medical University

At present, the university has 100,000 Sq. meters. of built-up area and 29,728.97 sq. meters. The Thumbay University Hospital Complex includes the 350-bed Thumbay University Hospital – the largest private academic hospital in the region, Thumbay Dental Hospital – first private dental hospital in the country and the largest academic dental hospital in the Middle East region’s private sector and Thumbay Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Hospital – the biggest and most advanced hospital for physical therapy and rehabilitation. The hospital will feature a special robotic pharmacy, a first of its kind in the region, and will have quaternary care facilities. The hospital’s state-of-the-art laboratory will be connected to Thumbay Labs to offer highly specialized tests and diagnostic facilities. The upcoming dental hospital is a dedicated dental unit for the teaching and training the students of Dentistry which will have all dental specialties under one roof, In order to train the physical therapy students of the university, a hi-tech rehabilitation center hosting a unique state-of-the-art Sports Medicine, Hydrotherapy unit, GAIT Analysis lab and an Ergonomic simulation lab that will promote analytical and therapeutic services is under construction. The center will provide specialized physiotherapy services in the fields of Musculoskeletal, Cardio-respiratory, Neurology, Pediatrics and Women’s Health.

Thumbay Labs has three main areas of function – Clinical Research, High Complexity Laboratory Testing for super-specialties and Statistical Support for analysis of clinical research data and for the generation of evidence-based clinical practice. It has super specialty diagnostic facilities for Neonatal Screening of infants for various inborn errors of metabolism, HLA Allele Specific Sequencing, Beta Thalassemia Mutation Detection by PCR, Chromosomal Analysis, Microarray-based genetic testing and Immuno-histo-chemical assays for cancer screening.