Dubai Healthcare City
Dubai Healthcare City ( DHCC ; Arabic مدينة دبي الطبية, DMG Madīnat Dubayy aṭ-ṭibbiyya ) is another free trade zone in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates , which is aimed at companies in the health and pharmaceutical industries. Like other free trade zones, Dubai Healthcare City offers companies excellent infrastructure, tax exemption and access to international markets. The United Arab Emirates have developed into a center of "medical tourism" in the Middle East and increasingly beyond. 11.2 million health tourists are expected in 2010, the majority of whom will be in Dubai Healthcare City.
The plan envisages that around 350 clinics, diagnostic centers and health-related facilities, as well as hotels, apartment houses, staff accommodation and utilities will be expanded into the world's largest "health campus". Without any ideological trappings, people in Dubai Healthcare City acknowledge the commercial character of modern health care. In order to cover the enormous institutional and personnel requirements, contacts were made with numerous decision-makers in the professional world and numerous personal offers were sent out. Last but not least, the ambition of the project is to become an unmistakable "Center of Excellence" in the entire medical world.
What is special here is the thematic cluster formation: in a relatively compact space, all medical-relevant facilities and providers can be reached quickly, and in a competitive situation they can be compared better. All service facilities are to be classified as "companies", provided they deal with the health issue in the broadest sense:
- Clinics, e.g. B. as an offshoot of well-known foreign clinics, university clinics, endowed clinics etc. of all general or specialist medical directions, rehabilitation facilities;
- Numerous medical practices, including group practices from all disciplines, outpatient clinics, diagnosis and therapy providers;
- several pharmacies;
- medical education and training institutions (e.g. as partners or branches of foreign medical colleges, universities of applied sciences and medical faculties);
- Institutions for medical nutritional research, food research;
- Medical business (wholesale, retail and marketing) of pharmaceuticals, medical technology, hospital supplies, medicines and aids;
- complementary and alternative medicine, e.g. B. Chiropractic , naturopathic treatments , acupuncture .