Dr Ibtesam Al Bastaki is on a mission to attract investment for delivering the highest quality healthcare in Dubai.
As director of Healthcare Investment and PPP (Public Private Partnership) Projects for Dubai Health Authority (DHA), she is the right woman for the job.
The Emirati mother-of-two is in charge of developing various health projects within her realm of responsibility, alongside leading, advising and guiding on best practice and the group’s expansion initiatives within the UAE.
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As director of Healthcare Investment and PPP (Public Private Partnership) Projects for Dubai Health Authority (DHA), she is the right woman for the job.
The Emirati mother-of-two is in charge of developing various health projects within her realm of responsibility, alongside leading, advising and guiding on best practice and the group’s expansion initiatives within the UAE.
Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/uae/watch-dr-ibtesam-al-bastaki-who-drives-healthcare-investment-in-dubai-1.90605667
See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos
Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km
Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV
#UAEnews #Dubai #healthcare
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00:00I would advise every Emirati to need to follow their passion,
00:04but you can't say passion and go and dream and do your passion.
00:09You need to have that skills, that experience.
00:12You need to work so hard.
00:17I work for Dubai Health Authority as a Director of Investment
00:21and Public-Private Partnership.
00:24So I'm an Emirati born in Dubai.
00:27I traveled to Dublin in 1992 to study medicine
00:34at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
00:37I graduated in 1999 and I came to Dubai and I did my internship.
00:42During my stay in Dubai, basically I did my board exam
00:50and I obtained my family medicine as a specialist
00:53and as well because I was working at Dubai International Airport
00:58at one stage of my career.
01:00I studied aviation medicine and I got my certificate in aviation medicine
01:07from Monash University in Melbourne.
01:10I attended leadership program of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Barashid program
01:15and for young leader.
01:17That was in 2009.
01:20I worked in various healthcare field from government entities
01:25until private entities,
01:28as well as I worked at the Prime Minister office at one of the stage.
01:34I have almost like 22 years of experience.
01:3710 years of my previous experience,
01:40I had a pure kind of like hands-on patients.
01:43I was looking after my patients between hospitals and the clinics.
01:47When I did my master degree in health management in 2007
01:51from Royal College of Surgeons,
01:54I shifted to more into administration and leadership position.
01:58I always looked at Her Royal Highness Sheikh Fatima bint Mubarak
02:04as a pure icon for a woman.
02:10She has empowered, she led a lot of different positions
02:15and she encouraged women to be in different sectors,
02:19including military, healthcare, education.
02:22And of course, that's because of the vision
02:25of our late father Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
02:28who empowered women in every single step.
02:31Even when we were as a student in Dublin,
02:34whenever he visited UK,
02:37he always used to ask about his children,
02:43I would say girls and boys who studied in Dublin.
02:47And of course, everywhere in the part of the world
02:50where he knew that there are people are seeking education
02:57to come back to feed this country with positive energy
03:02as well as with lots of different passion, innovations, ideas
03:08to improve the whole infrastructure and system.
03:10From my experience, life is not easy.
03:14So there's a lot of challenges.
03:17I would say like, you know, there's an up and down.
03:21And of course, I would advise every Emirati
03:25to need to follow their passion.
03:27But you can't say passion and go and dream and do your passion.
03:32You need to have that skills, that experience.
03:35You need to work so hard
03:38just for the sake of reaching your goal or your target
03:42that you're aiming to reach to it and to shape your career.
03:46It wasn't an easy journey.
03:48There's a lot of challenges.
03:50And of course, with such a lifestyle,
03:54such challenge among our each every single steps,
03:59we need to look at it.
04:00We need to study it.
04:01And then you plan how you want to reach to that target or goal.
04:06So this is what I always advise every single Emirati.
04:10So saying that it's not a straightforward,
04:13it's every single steps you need to take it
04:16and you need to learn from that.