The delegation was welcomed by Dr. Abdulaziz Al Kuwari, Aspetar’s Acting Chief Executive Officer, who led the officials on a tour across the hospital’s world-class facilities and briefed them on its departments.

Commenting on the visit, HE Roxana Maracineanu, said:

As a former athlete and Olympic medalist in swimming, I can tell Aspetar is really a place where athletes can benefit from all its expertise and from having all these facilities available under one roof.

The French Minister of sports added,

Everything here revolves around patients, injured athletes, or the general public who can also access its services. The set-up provides huge advantages. With the service so focused on healing athletes it can only help to speed up recovery and the time it takes to return patients to maximum competence.

About Aspetar:

Aspetar is a world leading specialised orthopaedic and sports medicine hospital, and the first of its kind in the Middle East. Since 2007, with a world expert team, the hospital has provided top-level comprehensive medical treatment to all athletes in a state-of-the-art facility that sets new standards internationally.

In 2009, Aspetar was accredited as a “FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence”. In 2013, Aspetar was adopted as a reference collaborator centre by the Gulf Countries Council (GCC) Health Ministers Council and “IOC Research Centre for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health” in 2014.

In 2015, Aspetar has been recognised as the “IHF Reference Centre for Athlete and Referee Health”. In the same year, the hospital also achieved the obtained on December 15 the Accreditation Canada International (ACI) “Platinum Level”.

Aspetar is a member–organisation of Aspire Zone Foundation, Qatar’s innovative sports and healthy lifestyle destination.