This May, as the world observes Women’s Health Month, ATS Medical reaffirms its commitment to reduce barriers in women’s healthcare. We deliver solutions that empower women year-round—starting with equitable access to life-saving medical devices.
“Women’s Health Month isn’t just awareness—it’s a call to action. At ATS Medical, we’re answering that call by ensuring clinics from Dubai to rural communities have the technology to diagnose and treat women accurately and compassionately” according to Dr. Majd Karazoun, General Manager of ATS Medical.
As a woman in a leadership position in health care in the UAE, Dr. Karazoun says ensuring the best care for women is “a professional responsibility and a personal mission.”
Her company provides top-quality world-class medical devices and disposables. This includes a range of equipment for obstetrics and gynecological treatment, such as ultrasound machines, colposcopes, examination chairs, and fetal monitors.
High-tech mobility, provided by products like a Portable Color Doppler Ultrasound System, can help to bring care closer to patients. ATS Medical’s reliability for supply and service also make a huge difference.
“Being headquartered in Dubai means our global supply business has an especially robust reach in the MENA region, serving women’s needs in countries where women’s health may have been neglected,” Dr. Karazoun says. “Our ability to deliver dependably is an essential value added and a special source of pride.”
Created in response to the urgent need for medical supplies posed by the COVID pandemic. ATS Medical was built upon the supply chain expertise of its parent ATS Group, which supplies and maintains sophisticated aviation equipment worldwide.
“We can ensure distribution of top-quality medical devices and equipment,” Dr. Karazoun notes. “Still, the challenges to improving women’s health go beyond supply and are not just a regional problem. Women’s health needs a stronger focus worldwide.”
Challenges for women’s health
A historical emphasis on men has left women’s health care disadvantaged in a number of ways:
- Women are more likely to have certain conditions. For instance 80% of immunology patients are women. Autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, thyroid disease, and lupus, among others, all disproportionately affect women. More research is needed to understand these conditions.
- Women’s symptoms present differently than those of men. For example, while both men and women suffer classic heart attack symptoms like chest pains, women are far more likely to get less common symptoms, like indigestion, shortness of breath, and back pain. This led to women being seven times more likely than men to be misdiagnosed and discharged in the middle of having a heart attack, according to a 2000 study by the New England Journal of Medicine.
- Women undergoing surgery had a 32% higher risk of death when their surgeon was male. In one specific example, 1.4% of women receiving a cardiothoracic operation with a male surgeon died, while only 1% died when a female surgeon was involved.
- Men have historically been enrolled more in clinical trials. In fact, in the U.S. in the 1970s, the Food and Drug Administration recommended excluding women of childbearing age from drug trials, meaning the effectiveness and proper dosage of drugs was not fully tested for women.
- Women’s health care receives inadequate investment. It’s been estimated that less than 1% of all venture capital put into biopharma investment in the U.S. goes toward developing products specifically for women.
“Providing appropriate care for our mothers, sisters, and daughters is essential to ensuring a healthy thriving society,” says Dr. Karazoun. “It also makes business sense, as women’s health is a vast market with room for growth. I’m proud to be a part of the solution by ensuring ATS Medical supplies the highest quality medical equipment for women’s care.”
