Dubai HealthCare City is unique, because it is a city within a city, where both the pharmaceutical industry and health care are under one roof.The developers and the owners are the Dubai Holding. This project will cost $1.8 billion.The following institutions will be housed here:

* research – and rehabilitation centres, * medically training institutes, * private hospitals and clinics, * pharmaceutical offices and spas.

This project has been devised for promoting health tourism. For this reason there are also some flats, residential villa’s and five star hotels, which are surrounded by an man-made lake.The HealthCare City in Dubai will be situated on the Old Metha road,beside the creek and nearby Al Wasl hospital and Wafi City.By early 2010 it will have its own Dubai Metro station on the Green Line. By the end of 2008, 17 hospitals are planned for DHCC with a total of 780 beds. The hospitals which are under construction can be categorised as follows:

* General Hospital I – Cardiology* General Hospital II – Obstetrics* General Hospital III (150 beds)* Long-Term Care Facility (100 beds)* Nursing Home (50 beds)* Orthopaedic Hospital (20 beds)* Plastic Surgery Hospital I (25 beds)* Plastic Surgery Hospital II (25 beds)* Rehabilitation Hospital (300 beds)* Sports Medicine Hospital (100 beds)* Long-Term Care Facility (100 beds)* Urology Hospital (30 beds)* University Hospital (400 beds)

By the end of 2008, the University Hospital is projected to be ready. At present, candidates for the postgraduate training course are sent to Boston (USA). But the Ultimate goal is to set up a training hospital and a postgraduate medical training centre, which will be associated with the Harvard Medical School. This academic centre promises the most exhaustive medical reference search in the country, by having a research centre of the sciences of living and the Al Maktoum Medical Library.The research centre of the sciences of living, is an auditorium with 300 seats.Therefore it is a large project with also a nursing school in the expectation, which will accommodate 200 students, offering basic and masters level training.

At present the HealthCare City of Dubai functions partially. There are approximately 760 staff members, of which 130 doctors. According to the expectations phase 1 & 2 will be fully operational by 2010.

Up till now the next list of private hospitals and offices has been announced:

* American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery Hospital* American University of Beirut Medical
Centre* Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Center* Eleva Women’s Hospital* London Great
Ormonde Street Hospital Dubai Office* Mayo Clinic Middle East* The City Hospital
(Welcare, Varkey Group)* The Creek Hospital Dubai (Welcare, Varkey Group)* University
Hospital* Universitatsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf The following pharmaceutical
companies are already operational with offices and laboratories in Dubai Health
Care City: * AstraZeneca* Johnson & Johnson* Novo Nordisk* Wyeth Pharmaceuticals