DARB · HEALTHCARE MARKETING · UAE

Healthcare marketing for UAE clinics and hospitals.

MoHAP + DHA + DoH compliant. Local SEO, paid ads, patient-review systems, medical content — bilingual (Arabic + English) — filed correctly the first time.

Darb Productions runs healthcare marketing for private clinics, hospital groups, dental / dermatology / plastic surgery / fertility specialty practices, and healthtech products across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and every other emirate. Every campaign passes the MoHAP, DHA or DoH advertising-permit process before it goes live — no retracted posts, no permit fines, no wasted spend.

MoHAP + DHA + DoH permits handledDubai · Abu Dhabi · Sharjah · every emirateBilingual Arabic + English medical content
REGULATED CORRECTLY

The permit and rule set we file inside.

UAE healthcare advertising is one of the strictest regulated verticals in the region. A campaign that skips permit review gets pulled fast and the practice takes the fine. Every asset we ship passes the right authority's checkpoints before it goes public.

MoHAP

Federal Ministry of Health and Prevention — sets the national medical-advertising rulebook, oversees the emirates outside Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

DHA

Dubai Health Authority — issues medical advertising permits for Dubai-licensed clinics and hospitals; every promotional asset needs a DHA reference.

DoH

Department of Health Abu Dhabi — regulates health advertising in the Abu Dhabi emirate; different submission portal, different timeline.

DHCC

Dubai Healthcare City Authority — free-zone regulator with its own overlay for DHCC-based clinics; we file inside DHCC's rules where applicable.

SEHA

Emirates Health Services — network operator of public and private facilities under DoH oversight; specific brand-partner rules.

Nabidh + Riayati

Dubai's Nabidh and the UAE's Riayati unified medical-record platforms — patient-data touchpoints in any digital funnel must respect their consent and data-handling rules.

WHAT WE RUN

The full stack of what a UAE clinic actually needs.

One team runs it end to end so the SEO, the ads, the reviews, and the content pull in the same direction — instead of four separate agencies each pointing a different way.

/ 01

Local SEO for private clinics

Google Business Profile setup and optimisation for every branch (Dubai / Abu Dhabi / Sharjah / etc.), on-page SEO for the clinic website with speciality landing pages, structured data for medical services, review-schema wiring so star ratings show up in Google results.

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Google Ads + Meta Ads (medical policy)

Search campaigns tuned to speciality intent («dental implants Dubai», «IVF Abu Dhabi»), display retargeting inside Google's medical-policy limits, Meta and Snap ads compliant with UAE's stricter medical rules — no before/after where the speciality prohibits it, no unverifiable outcome claims.

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MoHAP / DHA / DoH permit filing

Every promotional asset — landing page, ad creative, social post, influencer script — goes through the right authority's advertising-permit process before it publishes. We hold the DHA reference numbers, the MoHAP filings, the DoH approvals. No last-minute takedowns.

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Patient-review and reputation systems

Post-visit review-request automation (SMS + WhatsApp), Google Business review response workflows in Arabic and English, negative-review escalation procedures that respect medical-confidentiality rules, aggregation and dashboarding across every branch.

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Bilingual medical content

Speciality landing pages, blog articles, patient-education material, video scripts — written in medically-accurate Arabic and English, with source citations, reviewed by a medical writer before publication. No copy-paste translations, no unverified claims.

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Practice-manager reporting

Monthly dashboards built for the practice manager — appointment-request source attribution, cost-per-booking by speciality and by branch, patient-source share by campaign. Data live in Rouad, our own platform, so you don't get locked into a Google Sheets template.

PRICING

Clear packages — pick what fits.

AED-priced monthly retainer, everything included, no surprise line items. Tap the order button on the package that fits — your request reaches us directly on WhatsApp.

Sprint
AED 5,500
per month · one clinic, one speciality
  • Google Business Profile setup + optimisation
  • One paid channel (Google Ads OR Meta Ads)
  • Up to 5 speciality landing pages
  • MoHAP / DHA / DoH permit filing
  • Bilingual review-request automation
  • Monthly reporting
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Most requested
Engine
AED 12,500
per month · up to 3 branches
  • Everything in Sprint
  • All paid channels (Google + Meta + Snap)
  • Up to 15 speciality landing pages
  • SEO + technical + backlink outreach
  • Doctor video content (2 per month)
  • WhatsApp Business automation
  • Reputation dashboards for every branch
  • Bi-weekly reporting
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Partner
From AED 28,000
per month · hospital or speciality group
  • Everything in Engine
  • Unlimited branches and specialities
  • Dedicated senior lead + weekly stand-ups
  • MoHAP compliance audit + doctor-training on medical content rules
  • Call-tracking + CRM integration
  • Bilingual creative production in-house
  • Custom reporting to the practice manager
  • Monthly executive review
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5% UAE VAT (FTA-compliant TRN) added at invoicing. Hospitals with multiple branches or specialty groups with 4+ clinics are quoted separately as a group retainer with dedicated senior lead. Ad spend on Google / Meta / Snap is a separate line paid to the platform directly — never marked up by us.

QUESTIONS

Everything UAE clinic owners ask us.

Do you handle the DHA marketing permit process?+

Yes — every ad, every landing page, every influencer script that goes public for a Dubai-licensed clinic goes through the DHA advertising-permit process first. We hold the reference numbers and refile as the rules evolve. Same for MoHAP filings across the northern emirates and DoH filings in Abu Dhabi.

Do you work with DHCC free-zone clinics too?+

Yes. Dubai Healthcare City clinics have an extra layer of the DHCC Authority regulations on top of the DHA framework. We know which submissions go to which portal and we file both when they overlap.

Can you handle a hospital group with branches across multiple emirates?+

Yes — the Partner tier is designed for this. Each branch gets its own local SEO and Google Business Profile, ads segmented by branch geo, permits filed with the right emirate's authority, and a group-level reputation dashboard so the practice manager can compare performance across branches side by side.

Which specialties have you run marketing for?+

Dental, dermatology, cosmetic and plastic surgery, IVF and fertility, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, weight-management, aesthetic dermatology, family medicine, and multi-speciality private hospitals. The MoHAP/DHA/DoH permit rules differ by speciality (cosmetic surgery has the strictest advertising rules) and we know which images and claims survive review in each.

What about before-and-after images? The rules keep changing.+

Before-and-after is where most clinics get their assets pulled. Cosmetic surgery and aesthetic dermatology have the tightest limits; some specialties can show them with explicit consent and disclaimers, some cannot show them at all. We hold the current MoHAP + DHA guidance and design campaigns that don't depend on before-and-after imagery when the rules don't allow it — meaning your funnel works without the risk.

How does patient-review handling work under UAE medical-confidentiality rules?+

We build a review-request automation (SMS + WhatsApp) that sends after each visit with the patient's consent. Response templates in Arabic and English respect medical confidentiality — we never publicly discuss a patient's condition or treatment, only the service experience. Escalation for negative reviews flows to the practice manager with a proposed response, never posted automatically.

Do you integrate with Nabidh or Riayati?+

Not directly — Nabidh (Dubai) and Riayati (UAE-wide) are clinical medical-record platforms managed by the health authorities, not marketing systems. But every digital funnel we run respects their consent and data-handling frameworks: patient-data collected via marketing channels flows into your CRM under the correct consent, never into the clinical record without your team's action.

Which insurance networks and payer platforms do you understand?+

Daman and Thiqa (Abu Dhabi), Aetna, AXA, Bupa Global, Cigna, Nextcare, NAS, and the major TPAs. Your paid-ads targeting can filter for insured patients on specific networks when that lifts case value, and your landing pages can call out accepted-insurance lists clearly.

Do you sign NDAs?+

Yes, mutual NDA is standard before we look at any patient data, before we review your existing marketing performance, and before we're briefed on new-service launches.

What's the notice period for stopping the retainer?+

Thirty calendar days on any tier. All assets we build (landing pages, review workflows, campaign structures) transfer to your team along with access credentials. No lock-in.

Ready to run healthcare marketing that passes UAE regulation the first time?

Send a one-paragraph brief (specialty, branches, current monthly patient volume, campaign goal) and we come back within one business day with a fit read and a scoped package.

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