Page 3 - Federal Law No. (4) of 2015 on Private Health Facilities

Chapter 2

Licenses

Article (3)

1. A private health facility may only be established, operated or managed in the State by any
natural or legal person after obtaining a license to do so from the health authority in accordance
with the provisions of this Law and its executive regulations.
2. The executive regulations of this Law shall specify the health and technical conditions,
licensing procedures for establishing, operating and managing private health facilities, their
types, their respective areas of activity, and the validity period of the license.
3. Health facilities shall be bound by international standards established by the health authority
and shall develop mechanisms for developing and evaluating health services they provide.

Article 4

The executive regulations of this Law specify the terms and conditions for owning private health
facilities and the necessary procedures thereof.

Article (5)

The private health facility shall only be managed by qualified person, and the executive regulations
specify those qualifications according to the type and nature of the private health facility.

Article (6)
The concerned department shall be concerned with deciding on the applications for licensing the
establishment, operation, or management of private health facilities. In the event that the license
application is rejected, the rejection decision must be justified, provided that the concerned person
is notified thereof, and the failure to respond to the license application within sixty days as of the
date of its submission is considered a rejection thereof.

Article (7)

A grievance may be filed against the rejection of licensing the establishment, operation, or
management of private health facility. The grievance shall be submitted in writing to the Minister
or the head of the health authority, as the case may be, within thirty days from the date of receiving
notification of the rejection decision or from the date of the expiry of the sixty-day period referred
to in Article (6) of this Law. The grievance decisions may be challenged before the competent
court within thirty days from the date of notifying the concerned person with the decision of the
grievance rejection or the expiry of a sixty-day after submitting the grievance without responding
thereto.

*In case of any misinterpretation, the Arabic version of this legislation prevails.