Dubai Medical Cluster.

Continuing our series of photo stories about Dubai's neighborhoods and freezones, and today you have Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai's medical cluster on your screens.

This area is located near Dubai Creek Bay and here, in a fairly compact area, operates five hospitals, about a hundred clinics and medical centers, as well as Dubai's largest medical university Mohammed Bin Rashid Academic Medical Center.

DHCC is a separate medical freezone, which means that all companies that open a business here receive tax incentives, fast license processing, hotel and city infrastructure and 100% business ownership without local partners.

Now, 400 medical companies, a dozen hotels already operate in this location, and a massive Phase-2 is being built along the coast, which is planned to be even twice as large. In addition to medicine, there will be an emphasis on physiology, sports and fitness.

Dubai has confident plans to develop medical tourism. A special organization, Dubai Health Experience, has been set up to meet these objectives and promote the country as a destination for comfortable medical treatment.

The main areas that are rocking: orthopedics, ophthalmology, dentistry, infertility treatment, cosmetology and aesthetic medicine.

The plan by 2025 is to welcome 500,000 patients from other countries who will come on a special medical visa. For example, 350,000 people have already visited the city for medical treatment in 2019.

Dubai ranks 1st in the world in terms of private investment in medicine and 6th in the Medical Tourism Index world ranking. In terms of speed of development and infrastructure, the city is already ahead of Israel, known for its medicine - Dubai has 2300 clinics, as well as 43 modern hospitals, of which only five are public, the rest are private.

39,000 doctors of 110 nationalities have moved here to work, with Dubai actively developing its medical education. For example, American Hospital Dibai this year opened the Middle East's first training center for operations using advanced medical robots.

The Dubai Healthcare City neighborhood was laid out back in 2002 and in places its Arabian architecture of the first clinic buildings, some of which are twenty years old, may not look very modern in places, but there are beautiful new technologically advanced hospitals popping up every year in different parts of the city.

I took some shots of Al Jalila Children's Hospital, where the big letters at the entrance look something like the Flintstones, and the little patients are greeted in the parking lot by big colorful butterflies and a real steam train loaded with presents.