About Expatriates Check-up Program
The rapid pace of development and change witnessed by GCC countries over the last decades has created significant demands for manpower from other countries to support economic growth, development and construction in the region. It has therefore been particularly important for GCC countries to take appropriate actions to examine the expatriates in their home countries for compatibility between their health fitness and the nature of the work they were seeking in the GCC.
The processes developed have helped to ensure that expatriates are free from diseases – in particular infectious diseases – or other diseases that may not only threaten the security and safety of the Gulf society, but also impact areas of work performance, and psychological, economic and social aspects for the community. All these issues are directly or indirectly related to public health.
In this regard, the Ministers of the Gulf Health Council in its conference number 38 dated Sha’ban 1415H in January 1995, decided that the Executive Office of the Council of Ministers of Health (Gulf Health Council) should supervise the centers of examination of incoming expatriate workers in their countries before obtaining a work visa in GCC States.
About Expatriates Check-up Program
Mission
Developing cooperation and coordination among member states in the preventive health fields for expatriates to the GCC states.
Mission
Vision
Creating a preventive system for the Gulf community that follows the highest quality standards in conducting medical examinations for expatriates.
Vision
The program is based on the medical examination list for expatriates to the GCC countries, which has been updated more than once since the launch of the program, the last of which was in August 2017.
Ensuring that expatriate workers are fit and fit to work in the GCC countries, in terms of their health, for what they are recruited for, and that they are free from chronic diseases, as they constitute an economic burden on the recruiters.
Take appropriate health measures to ensure that expatriates for work or residence are free from infectious diseases that pose a threat to their contacts, threatening the security and safety of Gulf society.
The achievements of the expatriate screening program
The percentage of inappropriate cases that enter the GCC countries before the adoption of the expatriate examination program ranged between: 17% -20%, and it gradually decreased to approximately 2% after the adoption of the expatriate examination program, then to 0.5% after the application of the electronic link system.
Providing information about the health of expatriates to the embassies and consulates of the GCC countries and other relevant authorities through the electronic link program for the expatriate examination program to verify the results of the medical examination before issuing entry visas for expatriates.
Protecting the rights of workers wishing to work in the GCC countries.
The implementation of the barcode system by some embassies and consulates of the GCC countries facilitated their tasks in reducing the forgery of medical reports and reduced the workload.
The percentage of inappropriate cases that enter the GCC countries before the adoption of the expatriate examination program ranged between: 17% -20%, and it gradually decreased to approximately 2% after the adoption of the expatriate examination program, then to 0.5% after the application of the electronic link system.
The official website for expatriate screening
