by Rama » Fri Feb 03, 2017 9:04 am
I recently had a health check for a work permit.
This year they took a blood sample, last year they didn't.
The whole procedure is still a joke.
1st off your height is very hastily and inexpertly measured, then your chest measurement is quickly taken and you are asked to stand on the scales to record your weight.
Then you go to a window to submit those numbers and your forms, following this you cue up to go into a room to have your blood pressure taken, your ear looked in, and a nurse listens to your heart. Some people are asked to look at a eye-test poster. You are also asked if you have ever had any operations. (I'm just trying to recall everything, I am pretty sure that is what they asked, rather than if you suffer from any Illness or disabilities)
Then it is off to another room to have your finger pricked to collected blood.
One work colleague who went along tried to protest the blood test, asking to speak to whoever was in charge so that the reasoning for the blood test could be explained. She wanted to know why the blood test was being taken this year, and what they were looking for. No one was able or willing to answering her, and she was simply told that it was decreed by the ministry that any foreigner who wanted to pass the health test must give blood. Other people told her the process was clean and hygienic and just to do it and in the end she did.
Not much help you NeverSayDie, but it bumps your thread.
Good luck getting info.
I recently had a health check for a work permit.
This year they took a blood sample, last year they didn't.
The whole procedure is still a joke.
1st off your height is very hastily and inexpertly measured, then your chest measurement is quickly taken and you are asked to stand on the scales to record your weight.
Then you go to a window to submit those numbers and your forms, following this you cue up to go into a room to have your blood pressure taken, your ear looked in, and a nurse listens to your heart. Some people are asked to look at a eye-test poster. You are also asked if you have ever had any operations. (I'm just trying to recall everything, I am pretty sure that is what they asked, rather than if you suffer from any Illness or disabilities)
Then it is off to another room to have your finger pricked to collected blood.
One work colleague who went along tried to protest the blood test, asking to speak to whoever was in charge so that the reasoning for the blood test could be explained. She wanted to know why the blood test was being taken this year, and what they were looking for. No one was able or willing to answering her, and she was simply told that it was decreed by the ministry that any foreigner who wanted to pass the health test must give blood. Other people told her the process was clean and hygienic and just to do it and in the end she did.
Not much help you NeverSayDie, but it bumps your thread.
Good luck getting info.