Health and wellness have been on the forefront of everyone’s minds since news of the pandemic first broke.
Which is why a complex opening this year that caters to a range of wellness solutions, all under one roof, will certainly be a welcome addition to Abu Dhabi's healthcare scene.
Wellness Boulevard, by Al Falah Healthcare, is pegged as a health, wellness, and retail hub – in short, a one-stop solution for all your healthcare needs, and is scheduled to open in Abu Dhabi's Khalifa City in the autumn of 2021.
The multimillion dollar complex is spread over 7,600 square metres and has several levels.
While the names of brands and vendors at the hub are yet to be announced, Wellness Boulevard will offer visitors all the conveniences of a shopping mall – with food and family options – alongside custom-fitted clinics, offices and high-specification medical facilities.
“Wellness Boulevard will be a community-led facility like no other and a first of its kind in the UAE and the region. By offering the very best in mall services, courtesy of global retailers and food brands, the complex will cater to the daily needs of a large, diverse and expanding population that demands access to the very best facilities at a time and location that suits them,” says Falah Zayed, investment manager at Al Falah Healthcare.
"This will be complemented by Wellness Boulevard's unrivalled collection of renowned healthcare providers, with leading names offering the highest standards of medical care and clinical treatments. As a multipurpose hub for the Abu Dhabi community, Wellness Boulevard will be a new focal point for families, friends, customers and patients to use and enjoy all year round."
The goal of launching this healthcare hub is to enhance the amenities available in Abu Dhabi as well as redefine the way patients, customers and their families will be able to use standards of care and facilities.
Iran's dirty tricks to dodge sanctions
There’s increased scrutiny on the tricks being used to keep commodities flowing to and from blacklisted countries. Here’s a description of how some work.
1 Going Dark
A common method to transport Iranian oil with stealth is to turn off the Automatic Identification System, an electronic device that pinpoints a ship’s location. Known as going dark, a vessel flicks the switch before berthing and typically reappears days later, masking the location of its load or discharge port.
2. Ship-to-Ship Transfers
A first vessel will take its clandestine cargo away from the country in question before transferring it to a waiting ship, all of this happening out of sight. The vessels will then sail in different directions. For about a third of Iranian exports, more than one tanker typically handles a load before it’s delivered to its final destination, analysts say.
3. Fake Destinations
Signaling the wrong destination to load or unload is another technique. Ships that intend to take cargo from Iran may indicate their loading ports in sanction-free places like Iraq. Ships can keep changing their destinations and end up not berthing at any of them.
4. Rebranded Barrels
Iranian barrels can also be rebranded as oil from a nation free from sanctions such as Iraq. The countries share fields along their border and the crude has similar characteristics. Oil from these deposits can be trucked out to another port and documents forged to hide Iran as the origin.
* Bloomberg
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Points about the fast fashion industry Celine Hajjar wants everyone to know
- Fast fashion is responsible for up to 10 per cent of global carbon emissions
- Fast fashion is responsible for 24 per cent of the world's insecticides
- Synthetic fibres that make up the average garment can take hundreds of years to biodegrade
- Fast fashion labour workers make 80 per cent less than the required salary to live
- 27 million fast fashion workers worldwide suffer from work-related illnesses and diseases
- Hundreds of thousands of fast fashion labourers work without rights or protection and 80 per cent of them are women
