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Chairman and Managing Director
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STARTING FROM A SINGLE DOCTOR Q
practice in Dubai, over the last 30 R
years Azad Moopen has turned
Aster DM healthcare into one of the S
UAE’s largest private healthcare T
providers, with 323 hospitals, clinics
and pharmacies across the Middle U
East, India and as far afield as the V
Philippines. As of last September 2017,
the company directly employs nearly W
16,000 people, including 2,308 doctors
and 7,549 nurses and paramedics. X
Currently, Aster DM Healthcare is Y
exploring expansion opportunities in
new markets including Egypt, Iraq, Z
Syria and the African continent, as
well as within its traditional UAE
market, where Dr Moopen plans to
fully contribute to Dubai’s aim to
become one of the world’s foremost
destinations for medical tourism.
Dr Moopen is also a well-known
philanthropist who has earmarked
20 percent of his personal wealth for
philanthropy. Aster DM is also heavily
involved in a number of not-for-profit
q IN THE LAST 30 YEARS, WE projects, such as early disease and
HAVE DONE WELL, THANKS cancer screening centres in India,
MAINLY TO THE SUPPORT OF “doctor on wheels” mobile clinics,
THE UAE’S RULERS AND THE local empowerment programmes
for women and children in India,
HARD WORK OF THE PEOPLE and free or subsidised treatments
AT ASTER DM MEDICAL” for the underprivileged.

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