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Dubai Healthcare City company setup

Dubai Healthcare City is the only free zone in Dubai built specifically for clinical practice. It has its own healthcare regulator, and practitioners and facilities are licensed through it rather than through the Dubai Health Authority. For clinics, day surgeries and medical education providers it offers a clear, purpose-built regulatory path.
From AED 25,000 (typical)

Indicative first-year licence

By facility and licence

Residence visa allocation

Oud Metha

Location in Dubai

DHCC at a glance

A dedicated clinical free zone with its own health regulator

Who DHCC suits:

What DHCC does well

What to watch

Activities

Commonly licensed in DHCC

Not seeing your activity? The catalogue is far longer than this. Describe what you do in one sentence and we will find the code — or tell you honestly that another zone licenses it better.
Process

How a DHCC setup runs

01

Activity and package selection

We match your activities to the DHCC catalogue and pick the package tier that carries the visa quota you will need in eighteen months, not today.
02

Name reservation and application

Three ranked name options are screened and submitted with your incorporation application and shareholder documents.
03

Licence issuance

The authority issues the licence, share certificate and incorporation documents. Standard activities typically clear within three to ten working days.
04

Establishment card and visas

We open the immigration file, apply for entry permits, and run medicals, Emirates ID and stamping for each applicant.
05

Banking and tax registration

Corporate bank introduction with a prepared KYC pack, then Federal Tax Authority corporate tax registration and VAT where thresholds apply.
Questions

DHCC questions

Yes, subject to credential verification. Your qualifications, experience letters and licences from previous jurisdictions must be verified and attested, and you must pass the regulator’s assessment for your speciality. Start the credentialing process early — it is usually the longest item on the timeline.

DHCC gives a purpose-built free zone environment with full foreign ownership and a specialist regulator. A DHA mainland licence puts you in any commercial district in Dubai and can be better for location and patient catchment. The right answer depends on your speciality, your patient base and where you want to practise.

For standard, non-regulated activities with complete documents, expect the licence within three to ten working days. Residence visas add a further two to four weeks after issuance, and corporate bank account opening runs three to eight weeks in parallel. Regulated activities requiring external approval take longer, and we tell you how much longer before you commit.

Yes. We handle the activity selection, name reservation, application, licence issuance, establishment and immigration cards, residence visas, corporate bank introduction, and the corporate tax and VAT registrations that follow. You get one point of contact and one itemised quote covering all of it.

Free consultation

Thinking about DHCC?

We will price it properly — licence, visas, office format and the renewal figure for year two — and tell you if another zone would serve you better for less.

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