ARABIAN Healthcare Group, Country Manager, KUNLE ADEGBITE
Kunle Adegbite is 40. He is the Country Manager of a company called Arabian Healthcare Group. It is a Dubai based hospital group that offers Medical Tourism in Nigeria. Over the last few years it has been helping more and more sick Nigerians access treatment abroad, especially in a Dubai hospital called RAK Hospital.
The Nigerian office of Arabian healthcare Group located at 78/79 Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja inside Trinity Mall was set up in 2012, to help in managing various health challenges that cannot be medically treated effectively in Nigeria. It is also laying a foundation for investors to come into Nigeria to set up state of the art hospitals. The company is also into hospital management in Nigeria.
Once any patient in some private hospitals decide to go for treatment abroad, Rak Medical Consultancy steps in to help the patient access treatment in Rak Hospital in Dubai, which is the company’s primary referral centre. It is a lovely hospital on the Arabian sea. It is a wellness centre on the shores of Ras Al Khaimah.
Rak Hospital is where healthcare meets hospitality. It is the preferred health destination for many Naija celebs.
It is located at Ras Al Khaimah, the preferred tourist destination away from the hub and hectic pace of big cities, this beautiful emirate is blessed with breathtaking natural beauty.
It offers you the peace, solitude and privacy you seek while undergoing elective treatment and a bouquet of exciting attractions for your family.
It offers a lot of areas of medical excellence One, it offers Swiss Health Checks. The Swiss Health Check at RAK Hospital is a careful process of monitoring your health through latest screening tests and techniques. This include the following: Whole Body Check for Men, Whole Body Check for Women, Executive Check, Heart Check, Adult Diabetic Check, Basic Health Check, Well Woman Check, Pediatric Diabetic Check and Child Check.
Two, it offers Orthopedics & Joint Replacement. This include the following. Joint Replacement Surgery for Knee, Hip & Shoulder, Soft Tissue Surgery and Joint Preservation, Sports Medicine, Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Physiotherapy, Spinal Instrumentation and Surgery.
Thirdly it offers Neuro & Spine Surgery. This involves Acute Stroke Unit offering Thrombolytic Therapy (clot dissolving treatment in stroke patients), comprehensive management of head injury and Spinal Cord Injuries, Brain Tumour Surgery, Spine Surgery for Neck, Backpain and Paralysis.
Fourthly, it offers Interventional Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery. Fifthly, Laparoscopic & Surgery for Renal Cancer, Bladder Cancer & Ovarian Cancer. It offers Laparoscopic Hysterectomy and Fibroid removal.
Sixthly, it offers Aesthetic, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and that is why a lot of celebrity Nigerians go for the offer.
Under Aesthetic Surgery is Face Lifts, Upper and Lower Lid Surgery, Ear Correction, Rhinoplasty (nose correction), Breast Surgery, Tummy Tuck, Fat Injection, Chin & Check remodelling, fillers for facial wrinkles, lip, lip lift, brow lift, body piercing and dimple creation.
Reconstructive Surgery for finger and fingertip injuries, post burns reconstruction, post cancer reconstruction, skin tags excision and reconstruction.
It offers emergency services 24/7 for Cardiac Emergency & Stroke”.
According to Adegbite, Rak Medical Consultancy offers a unique medical service called Medical Tourism. This is our Nigerian office located inside Trinity Mall on Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja. It is part of a healthcare group in Dubai called Arabian Healthcare Group. The Nigerian office was set up in 2012. “Basically we are in Nigeria to offer medical help, to take patients abroad for health cases that cannot be done in Nigeria. We take them abroad to get permanent solutions to the medical condition of these patients. That is what we call Medical Tourism”.
What will he call the predominant health challenges many Nigerians suffer? “They are cardiac issues, need for open heart surgery, knee replacements, joint replacement, laparascopic surgeries, we have what we call the Swiss Health Checks. Its a kind of preventive health package. We want to encourage people to go for check ups.
We have a check up package that we put together for people in Nigeria to go to Rak Hospital in Dubai to do it. We are trying to bring it also to Nigeria. We are planning to open a state of the art diagnostic centre in Nigeria. So for health cases involving Cardiology, Neurology, joint and knee replacements, we also have stroke management”.
How did Kunle Adegbie get involved in this medical service? “Its because I have a medical background”, he explained. “After schooling I worked briefly with Me Cure.
After that I joined Arabian Health Group in Dubai. After that, I was transferred back to Nigeria 4 years ago to develop medical tourism here in Nigeria.
I oversee the group’s business development in Africa. So, I do Ghana, Ethiopia, Zambia, Khartown and Addisa Ababa in terms of patient referrals to Rak Hospital in Dubai”.
How does he find the job? “The job is very interesting”, he explains. “It is quite demanding. I travel a lot. I like the job because it is a foundation for good healthcare in Nigeria. We are planning to have this facilities here in Nigeria. This would be achievable in the next couple of years”.
For those who suffer some of these health challenges, and need to seek your help how would they go about it? “We have partnerships with hospitals in Nigeria. By that I mean private hospitals, government hospitals, with doctors as well. We have partnerships with doctors as well. They refer their patients to us in cases that cannot be done here. When they introduce these patients to us we counsel them and get them their travel documents and from here we take them to Dubai for the final treatment. We also have the walk in patients. These are people who want to go to Dubai and get themselves checked up.
They are welcome as well. There are packages for everybody. Rak Hospital in Dubai is a good hospital. It is one of the pioneer hospitals with a JCI accreditation in the whole of the Middle East”.
What was Kunle Adegbite’s growing up years like? “I was born in Ibadan”, he explains. “I attended Government College, Ibadan. I later moved to University of Ilorin before I later moved to Dubai to do my Masters”, what course did he study in Ilorin?
“I studied Microbiology. And I did Public Health in Dubai. I am happily married. I have 2 kids. I have a beautiful wife who is into interior decoration. She is into party planning.”
Kunle Adegbite is also the owner of Sidewalk Bar on Obafemi Awolowo Way in Ikeja and Sidewalk Bar on Sanusi Fafunwa in Victorial Island, Lagos.
