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Dhahanjay Datar arrived in the UAE Y
at the age of 19 to work alongside his Daud IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE AND
father, Mahadev Data, in a small shop AFFORDABLE LIKE IN THEIR Z
in Bur Dubai. This morphed into the OWN HOME COUNTRY”
import-export firm Al Adil Group, which Founder and Chairperson
is well known for its spices sourced from ZULEKHA HEALTHCARE GROUP
his Mumbai-based Masala King Exports. Healthcare
In December, the UAE’s “Masala
King” opened his 39th store – in Bahrain FIRST ARRIVING IN THE UAE IN THE 2016, the group announced its first
– and now has outlets spread across the early 1960s, Dr Zulekha Daud began foray into the overseas market through
GCC and India. The group also trades her medical career working in rudi- the $43.6 million Alexis Multi-Specialty
in food items and has expanded into mentary facilities in a country that, at Hospital in Nagpur.
cosmetics. Additionally, the company the time, still had no hospitals. Setting Dr Daud is also well-known for her
has a manufacturing unit in Dubai’s up her clinic in 1964, Dr Daud later support for CSR initiatives, which have
Al Quoz, where it produces a range of opened Zulekha Hospital in Sharjah in included education and vocational
foodstuffs under the Peacock brand. 1992, followed by the establishment of training programmes for women, clean
Success was not handed to Datar a second hospital in Dubai in 2005. drinking water initiatives, and public
– he recalls never having breakfast while As well as running hospitals in Dubai health awareness campaigns such as
growing up and walking barefoot to and Sharjah, Zulekha also oversees a the “smear, don’t fear” cervical cancer
school, a far cry from the custom-made number of medical centres and phar- awareness campaign and the “Pink it
Rolls-Royce he now drives. macies across the UAE. In December Now” breast cancer campaign.

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