About Expatriates Check-up Program
In order to maintain the health security of the GCC community, the GCC Health Ministers’ Council, in its 38th conference in Sha’ban 1415 AH (corresponding to January 1995), issued a decision to establish a program for conducting medical examinations for expatriates entering the GCC countries. Committees were formed to set the health requirements and medical examination regulations for expatriates, and to determine the clinical assessments, laboratory tests, and radiological examinations necessary to ensure their physical and mental health, and to confirm that they are free from diseases, particularly infectious diseases, that could threaten the security and safety of the Gulf community. Since its establishment, the GCC Health Council has worked in collaboration with member states to expand the scope of the Wafid Program to include most labor-exporting countries.
About Wafid 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 October 2023.
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 Wafid program
