Patients don't search in textbook Arabic
A patient does not search for the formal name of a condition; they search for what it feels like, in dialect, often mixed with a transliterated English term. The gap between the clinical term and the searched phrase is where nearly all Arabic medical SEO is won or lost.
Build the keyword list from real language: what patients write in your WhatsApp inbox, what they say in the consultation, what appears in the comments on your posts. That list will look nothing like a translated version of your English keywords, and it will convert far better.
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The technical part most sites get wrong
Three things break repeatedly. Hreflang: the Arabic and English versions must point at each other correctly, or search engines show the wrong language to the wrong person. RTL layout: a right-to-left page built by flipping a left-to-right template usually breaks headings, forms and buttons on mobile, and a broken form does not convert regardless of ranking.
Content parity: a translated page with half the detail of the English original ranks like half a page. If Arabic is the primary market, the Arabic page should be the more complete one — which is the opposite of how almost every clinic site is built.
What to publish first
Start with three Arabic pages: your highest-value procedure, the cost question for it, and the "is it safe / does it hurt / how long is recovery" cluster that every patient asks before booking. Those three carry most of the commercial intent in any specialty.
Then add your name page in Arabic, spelled the way patients would type it — including the common alternative spellings — so the name search resolves to you rather than to a directory that spelled it differently.