Dubai Healthcare City is perhaps the most widely recognised base that is globally known for providing world class healthcare services to people. It is a globally recognized project that is renowned for its integrated clinical and wellness services, education and medical research centres and provides a wide range of healthcare facilities. As the world's first healthcare free zone, it is also the best that offers a huge range of medical solutions for patients from all over the world. Dubai Healthcare City primarily consists of two sub communities. The first one is the Medical Community and focuses on treatment of illnesses.

The second is the Wellness Community which is more about general wellness and focuses on the prevention of disease. Both the communities are planned to set up and build in two stages. The project, which was launched back in 2006, falls in close proximity to Wafi City Dubai. The Medical Community is spread over an area of 4.1 million sq ft. Despite its mammoth size, it is only about a quarter the size of Wellness Community which is spread over 19 million sq ft. The stupendous size of the Wellness Community goes to say volumes about the importance of prevention of disease in medical science.

Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC) is one of the biggest medical communities of the Dubai real estate sector in the sense that is home to over eighty clinics and well over twelve hundred qualified and trained medical professionals to attend to the patients. All of the professionals working within the DHCC are licensed by the Centre for Healthcare Planning and Quality. This ensures that the medical attention offered at the DHCC complies with the best international standards. Numerous hospitals, clinics and wellness centres dot the entire Dubai Healthcare City and offer services not just for the locals but for the whole world.

The Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Makhtoum Academic Medical Centre, which is one of the prime health centres in the DHCC Medical Community, houses many renowned institutions which include Boston University Institute for Dental Research and Education Dubai, Dubai Harvard Foundation for Medical Research (which is also known as the DHFMR), Al Makhtoum Harvard Medical Library, The Institute for Postgraduate Education and Research, Harvard Medical School Dubai Centre and many others. All the research centres and the teaching hospitals of the DHCC are not only working to find medical breakthroughs but are also dedicated towards creating, teaching and mentoring medical professionals of tomorrow.

Dubai Healthcare City offers ease of access to all. It is conveniently located at a 5 min drive from the City Centre Mall. If you are coming from the Dubai International Airport, then 4 kilometres is all that separate you from the DHCC. With its very own Healthcare City Station and Green Line, DHCC patients and families are serviced by Dubai Metro. Dubai Metro also provides easy transport to countless dwellers of the development, since other than the state of the art medical institutions, the DHCC is also home to a residential community of its own that boasts a thriving population.

The various apartment buildings and luxury hotels in the area are designed to offer comfy homes, eco-friendly, healthy lifestyle to the locals. The various retail stores dotting the area are completely equipped to meet all the retail needs of the people. In a nutshell, suffice it to say that the Dubai Healthcare City is fully loaded with the best of medical and community facilities to offer the best living standards to all.