How we verify an eye clinic listing
Independent directory · Not affiliated with any clinic · Verified against DHA, DHCA, DOH, MOHAP, EHS · Updated 9 Nov 2026
A listing is a set of checkable facts, not a recommendation. This page records what we check, where we check it, how long the check lasts, and what happens when a fact cannot be confirmed.
What a record must establish
- The facility's legal name and the authority named on its licence.
- That the service is eye care: an eye hospital, an ophthalmology clinic, an ophthalmology department or a licensed optometry clinic.
- The emirate, area and address, taken from the clinic's own published information or the register.
- The treatments the clinic states it provides and, where relevant, the platform installed on site.
- The doctors who practise there, checked against their own registration rather than a clinic biography.
- Any published price, insurance relationship or opening-hours claim, with the date and source attached.
Where the facts come from
The first source is the relevant health authority: the Dubai Health Authority or Dubai Healthcare City Authority in Dubai, the Department of Health in Abu Dhabi, and the Ministry of Health and Prevention or Emirates Health Services elsewhere. The second is the clinic's own published material: its licence display, its website, a written quotation or a direct reply. A third-party directory, a search result snippet or a social-media post is not a primary source for a factual field.
Where those sources disagree, the discrepancy is recorded and the field stays unverified until it is resolved. We do not choose the version that makes the listing look more complete.
How long a fact stays current
Clinic and doctor facts are re-checked every 6 months. A fact older than that window stops being displayed and reverts to the unverified state. The date on a profile is the date of the last check, not the date the page was built.
Opening hours, prices and insurance relationships go stale faster than names and licences. A reader should treat any of those as a starting point to confirm with the clinic, and the profile says so beside the field.
What we will not do
We do not rank clinics, rate them or sell a higher position. A sponsored relationship, where one exists, is labelled on the profile, and it does not change the facts shown or remove a correction. A clinic cannot pay to have a safety note removed, a complaint hidden or an unverified field filled.
We do not list optical retail, dental, aesthetic or other non-eye services, even when the same hospital provides them. That is an editorial scope decision, not a comment on those services.
Corrections and claims
A clinic or reader can challenge any record through the claim and corrections route. Send the source you want us to check and the field it applies to. A correction is published as a correction; it is not quietly applied and then described as if it had always been right.
Questions about the method can go to [email protected]. Corrections go to [email protected].