The Dubai Health Authority has stated that the law for mandatory health insurance for visitors is in its final stages, confirming coordination and cooperation with the General Department of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai in this regard, so that it is not possible to issue or renew visas without a document proving obtaining insurance coverage.
Saleh Abdul Ghaffar Al Hashemi, Executive Director of the Dubai Health Insurance Corporation of the Dubai Health Authority, said:
For Emirates Today, health insurance for visitors is mandatory according to the third stage of the Health Insurance Law No. 11 of 2013, which is currently being developed and will be fully implemented soon. Al-Hashemi stressed that the authority is in permanent coordination with the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai, where it has unified an electronic system for all residents in the Emirate of Dubai, and it is not possible to issue or renew visas without a document proving that the resident has insurance coverage for health services, similar to the requirements of a card Identity and medical checks, before issuing visas.
He emphasized that the health insurance system in its entirety represents a realistic translation of the welfare aspects and their content that characterize the state in general, and Dubai in particular, as it is a wide umbrella that now includes more than 5.1 million insurance policies, after the number was not exceeding 600 thousand policies In 2013, before the mandatory insurance law was issued in Dubai.
The size of the health insurance market in Dubai is now more than 17 billion dirhams annually, and the total amount of insurance claims in the first half of 2019 exceeded eight billion dirhams, and the number of claims that passed through the online portal in the same period reached 16.18 million claims, by about 100 One thousand insurance claims per day.
According to the commission, the health insurance umbrella allows the policyholder to benefit from the services and the health insurance package, anywhere in the country, within the approved network that includes more than 3000 health facilities, and 20,000 accredited doctors, and the health insurance market includes 75 insurance companies and claims Insurance, more than 12 thousand insurance policies provide a variety of concessions, knowing that the value of the policies ranges between 550 dirhams for low-income groups, and exceeds 50 thousand dirhams for other policies.
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One billion dirhams annually the size of the health insurance market in Dubai.
The health insurance umbrella provides access to health services anywhere in the country.