This chapter, which focuses on the healthcare sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), aims at discussing how the contribution of non-state actors in providing healthcare services to the local population is of primary importance, especially in moments of crisis and in contexts where power asymmetries and hierarchies are socially relevant. As elsewhere in the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that the coordination between the state and non-state actors could be effective in facing the pandemic. The paper focuses on the Pakistan Medical Centre (PMC) in Dubai, a non-for-profit organisation funded by the local Pakistani community and corporates. It opened its doors in October 2020 during the acute phase of the pandemic, but the project, which is the first of its kind and unique in the whole Gulf region, started a few years before the pandemic outbreak. The PMC is the first healthcare centre funded by the foreign community in the UAE, and it offers services to the Emirati as well as to the migrant communities. It is a private initiative supported by the local migrant community but coordinated and endorsed by the local authorities.