Renew Dubai health insurance to avoid fine
- Fourteen clinics and pharmacies were fined between AED 20,000 to AED60,000 for violating and manipulating Dubai’s mandatory health insurance law
- Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has called on individual sponsors and company owners to renew the health insurance of their employees and dependents to avoid fines
- Dr Haidar Al Yousef said, company owners who have not renewed their employees’ and dependents’ insurance will be fined AED 500 per person per month
- Fine will be deducted automatically via the electronic system at the time of renewing of the visa
- DHA is a government-run body, and the singular authority in Dubai when it comes to all aspects of the health and medical industry in the emirate
- Dr Haidar Al Yousef is the director of the health funding department
- Dubai Health Insurance Law No 11 of 2013 was adopted under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai
- According to the law, it is the legal liability for every sponsor to provide an essential insurance package – fixed between AED 550 and AED 700
- 4 million Dubai residents are covered under the insurance scheme
