With 10 participating Dutch companies the Holland Pavilion provided an excellent opportunity for international professionals to meet companies and experts from the Dutch Life Sciences & Health sector.

This year aside the well-known Holland Pavilion [located in the main hall] the Task Force Health Care and the Dutch consulate general in Dubai jointly organised several activities at the annual trade fair on life sciences & healthcare innovation: A crowded networking reception for all Dutch healthcare professionals present ánd a seminar on Healthy Living which featured a variety of speakers to further promote healthy living and discuss how to combat child obesity. Among others the Director General of Curative Care of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands, Mr. Bas van den Dungen and a delegation of the Dubai Ministry of Health shared knowledge and best practice cases on preventive and curative care for children with obesity.