United Arab Emirates Licensing
United Arab Emirates Licensing
United Arab Emirates Licensing ( DHA, HAAD, MOH, DHCC )
Before going to keep practice in any healthcare facility in United Arab Emirates, every Healthcare Professionals need to acquire a license. There are four different licenses i.e. DHA, MOH, HAAD, DHCC. These licenses should be valid during their clinical practice and must be related with the concerned field of healthcare department and facility which they are working presently.
The chances of getting license will increase or high to the healthcare professionals, when the paperwork is submitted correctly through correct channel and under the right category.
But when Healthcare professionals who are not experienced with the online submissions usually submits wrong papers or incorrect papers. This will diminish or even entirely decreases their chance of acquiring a license to keep a clinical practice in UAE. Correct paperwork submission decrease the time spent on the wrong submissions and rejections.
For the Department approvals one can easily speed up the complete process by correct Health Professional Categories, such as
- Physicians (Consultant / Specialist / Medical Practitioner)
- Dentistry (Specialist /Consultant / GP)
- Allied Health
- Nursing / Midwifery
- Pharmacy
DHA Licensing
The main motto of the DHA licensing was to ensure the safe delivery of high standard healthcare services to the people in Dubai. There is a need to obtain DHA license for every Healthcare professional who needs to keep the clinical practice in any healthcare facility within the DHA jurisdiction (Dubai) which was valid all the time during their practice. DHA license requirements will depends on unified licensing guideline. And based on the DHA exam i.e. DHA license exam the license will be given to the health care professionals who qualified in that exam.
MOH Licensing
For every healthcare professional in UAE, who are willing to work in hospitals or any healthcare centers in Sharjah and Other Northern Emirates (Ras al Khaimah, Fujairah, Umm al Quwain, Ajman), Ministry of Health (MOH) will issues license. MOH exam for MOH license UAE was the entrance exam which every healthcare professional needs to be qualify to get the license. MOH Dubai exam for doctors, pharmacist, dentist, nurse, physiotherapist etc. For any medical professional who wants to settle and continue their career in UAE, this license exam will be beneficial. MOH license will permits every medical professional to work in the medical field in 5 other emirates in UAE.
HAAD Licensing
HAAD license will authorizes you to provide professional healthcare practice in Abu Dhabi. HAAD Licensing is very important to delivery high standards of healthcare services. So initially there is a need to know about HAAD licensing requirements such as HAAD exam i.e. HAAD license exam for different healthcare professionals. After fulfilling of all requirements healthcare professionals with different specialties can able to get license to work in Emirate of Abu Dhabi. License should be current & valid during their clinical practice. License should be renew before 3 months prior to the date of expiry. Another requirement is healthcare professionals should obtain no objection certificate (NOC) from their respective Hospital management.
DHCC Licensing
DHCC stands for Dubai Healthcare City which allows healthcare professionals from more than 30 countries to attend for DHCC exam to obtain the DHCC license. This license will be used to work as a physician in Dubai. The main motto of DHCC is to raise the number of healthcare professionals in UAE and to boost the economy of UAE. At present 11 exams were available for different healthcare professionals. DHCC based healthcare professionals were handled by CPQ means Center for Healthcare Planning.
