Take control of your health with Dubai’s health card, the ultimate tool for a healthier lifestyle. Get access to a wide range of health benefits and services, including discounts on medical procedures, preventive care, and more. Stay informed with real-time updates on your health status and manage your appointments and prescriptions with ease. Get peace of mind knowing you’re in control of your health with Dubai’s health card.
So, what Dubai health card is and how important is it for us? The question is tricky because for those, who have private medical insurance it would not be at all necessary to undergo all the procedures for having a health card in Dubai. However, the health card is in fact one of the must-haves for a residency visa which you must opt for, in case you want to live and work in Dubai.
From the moment it becomes clear that if you have a job in Dubai, where you are about to spend multiple years, the urge of changing your visa to residency visa grows quite high. For getting the stamp of residence permit in your passport, first you must get your health card, a labour card. Labour card is easy to get, but you will need to spend a few hours more in various hospitals, in order to obtain your health card.
The obligatory health card means that Dubai wishes to know if you are in a good-enough state to work and this way to bring income for Dubai. All non-Gulf citizens must undergo this overall medical control. By the health card, medical services in some of the public hospitals will be available for you at a much lower price. For many, if the Dubai employer is good, then your company can directly deal with one part of the process to get the health card for you. The medical tests contain several blood test and chest X-Ray to see if one has any viruses or diseases. If everything is fine, then you will be able to renew your health card even online, after receiving it.
The best way to obtain a Dubai Health Card is to go to one of the closest local public hospitals where they can give one for you after the checks are done. First, you need to go to the hospital; the suggested one is the Rashid Hospital, right by the British Council in Bur Dubai. Here they will handle you the application form for a health card. Important to note, that the health card applications should be filled in Arabic. Nevertheless, many agencies all over the downtown deal with translation and filling of such forms. If you give the filled form, together with passport copy, covering letter from employer, visa application and 2 passport photographs, they will give you a blank health card which is waiting for the results to be written in it. Ask for the health check in the Maktoum Hospital or the Kuwaiti Hospital for the early morning hours, midweek when there are the least patients in waiting.
For the X-ray, women are advised to wear a t-shirt over their bras. If possible, use a bra that does not have metal inside. If you are called back for a re-test, do not be frightened, only it is possible that anyone on that day has proved to have any illness, which has stopped him or her to get any sort of visa. If anyone is found ill or infected, he or she will be immediately detained and sent back home from Dubai.
If you get your tests well with good results, then you will get a date about when to go back to get your Dubai Health Card ready. It seems a hassle but once you are over it, you will not have to remake it for a year. Health Card, as said before, is best to be supported by a private medical insurance, which enables you to get the better services of private clinics for a considerably better price in Dubai. Your costs will be around 500 Dirham.
