DHA Licensing · Design & Fit-Out · Compliance

Clinic setup in Dubai, from licence application to final inspection

We license, design, build and equip medical facilities in Dubai. The practice is led by a DHA-licensed physician and Medical Director, and our regulatory team includes people who have worked inside the Dubai Health Authority itself.

Physician-led DHA-licensed doctor and Medical Director
Ex-DHA team Regulatory staff who worked at the authority
Six facilities Delivered end to end
Premium districts JLT · Downtown · Business Bay · JBR
01 — The problem

Three vendors, three timelines, and nobody owns the inspection

Most clinic projects in Dubai run on three separate contracts. A licensing consultant files the paperwork. An interior company draws something attractive. A contractor builds it. Each signs off on their own scope, and the gaps between them are where the months disappear.

The gaps are specific. Drawings get produced before anyone checks them against the DHA Health Facility Guidelines, so the corridor comes back at 1500mm when an outpatient facility needs 1850mm. Procedure rooms get an open-joint suspended ceiling, which fails infection control. Medical gas routing is added after the ceiling is closed.

Every one of those is a rebuild, not a revision — and every rebuild is rent paid on a clinic that is not yet open.

02 — Who you are working with

We have been on both sides of the inspection

Clinsera is led by a practising DHA-licensed physician who holds a Medical Director role, and our regulatory team includes former Dubai Health Authority personnel — people who have assessed submissions and walked facilities from the authority’s side of the table.

That changes what advice is worth. Knowing the guideline is one thing. Knowing how a submission is actually read, which omissions generate a query, and what an inspector looks at in the first ten minutes is a different kind of knowledge, and it is not written down anywhere.

03 — What we do

One team holds the whole scope

Opening a clinic

New Clinic Setup

Everything from initial approval to the day you see your first patient. One contract, one accountable team.

Opening a clinic

DHA Licensing

Initial approval, facility and staff licensing, and the final inspection — filed and tracked through Sheryan by people who know how it is read.

Opening a clinic

Location & Feasibility

Finding a unit that will actually pass, before you sign a ten-year lease on one that will not.

Opening a clinic

Design & 3D Visualisation

Architecture and interiors rendered before construction, so you approve a space you have already seen.

Opening a clinic

Fit-Out, MEP & Approvals

Full build, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, medical gas, and every Municipality and Civil Defence submission.

Opening a clinic

Equipment & Furniture

Specification, sourcing and installation of clinical equipment, beds, treatment chairs and sterilisation.

Opening a clinic

Training Institute Setup

Medical academies and institutes, including the KHDA educational services permit alongside the facility build.

Already operating

DHA Compliance Audit

A full inspection against the DHA checklist, run by people who have conducted them. Findings, evidence, and a corrective plan with dates.

Already operating

Sheryan Management

Licence activations, renewals, staff additions and facility amendments, filed and tracked so nothing lapses.

Already operating

FANR Approval

Radiation licensing for X-ray, dental imaging, C-arm and CT, including shielding review and RPO support.

Other spaces

Salon & Spa Fit-Out

Trade licence, Municipality approval, interior design and full build for beauty and wellness spaces.

Facility types

We license and build

GP clinics · Polyclinics · Specialty clinics · Day surgery centres · Home healthcare · Training institutes

04 — Why Clinsera

Why clients choose us

Regulatory knowledge from the inside

A DHA-licensed doctor leads the practice, and the regulatory team includes people who previously worked at the authority. Between them, they have seen submissions from both sides — which is why our advice tends to be shorter and more specific than most.

Designed to pass first time

Sealed wipeable flooring, coved skirting at wall-to-floor junctions, clean and dirty workflow separation, flush ceilings in procedure rooms. We build to Part D rather than correcting to it after a failed inspection.

Premium interiors that comply

Our clinics look like hospitality spaces and pass as medical facilities. Those two things are only in conflict when the detailing is done by someone who does not know the standard.

05 — The market

Dubai is licensing more facilities every year

Demand is not the constraint in this market. The regulatory bar is what decides who opens on schedule and who spends an extra six months paying rent on an empty unit.

5,800

Licensed healthcare facilities in Dubai, 2025 — up from 5,340 the year before

69,400

Private-sector healthcare professionals licensed in Dubai

8%

Year-on-year growth in both facilities and workforce

Source: Dubai Media Office, February 2026

06 — Process

How a clinic gets built

01

Consultation and feasibility

Service mix, budget, and a realistic view of what the project actually requires.

02

Location and licence category

Assessing units against catchment, and against whether the building can physically host a compliant clinic.

03

Initial approval

Company formation, trade licence, and the DHA business case demonstrating service need and viability — written by people who have read these from the assessing side.

04

Design and drawing approval

Schematic and detailed submissions through Sheryan, with Municipality and Civil Defence running in parallel.

05

Fit-out, MEP and equipment

Building exactly what was approved, with equipment installed and commissioned before inspection, not after.

06

Final inspection and opening

Mock inspection first, findings closed with evidence, then the DHA visit itself.

07 — Recent work

Six facilities, delivered

Jumeirah Lake Towers, Downtown, Business Bay and JBR — aesthetic and multi-service clinics, a medical training institute, a home healthcare provider and a beauty salon.

Project video
Jumeirah Lake Towers

Lux Aeterna Clinic

Aesthetic clinic delivered from an empty unit: licensing, design, MEP, interiors and DHA approval.

Project video
Jumeirah Lake Towers

Fiore Medical Institute

Medical training institute delivered end to end, including KHDA educational permit approval.

Tell us about the space

Whether you have signed a lease, are still comparing units, or have an operating clinic with an inspection coming — the first conversation costs nothing and usually saves something.