DHCA cuts fees to help businesses

dubai — Dubai Healthcare City Authority (DHCA) on Tuesday announced revised fees for several of its healthcare, commercial, and research and education offerings with the objective of facilitating ease of doing business.

The initiative is in line with the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to reduce the cost of doing business in Dubai, enhancing economic growth in the emirate, and further cementing the emirate’s position as destination of choice for investment.

The DHCC free zone has revised several fees, benefitting clinical, non-clinical, and education and research partners.

Operating permit fees for issuance and renewal for close to 150 clinical partners — mainly hospitals and clinics, have been reduced to strengthen patient care and healthcare services in DHCC.

Operating permit fees for inpatient and outpatient facilities have been reduced up to 30 per cent and 24 per cent, respectively. Whereas diagnostic centres and medical laboratories will benefit from up to 32 per cent reduction in permit fees. Other segments that will benefit are community pharmacy and non-diagnostic medical laboratories.

Further, to strengthen key support services in the DHCC Community such as retail, hospitality, consultancies, and professional training centres, non-clinical operating permit fees have been waived, benefitting more than 240 partners in the free zone.