
Your Complete Checklist for Wafid Medical Registration in Saudi Arabia
- 25-01-2025
How do you feel when you think of WAFID medical test? Do you get afraid of or excited? Well, WAFID medical screening follows a set of strict rules declared by the Gulf Health Council and candidates need to pass medical tests to get a WAFID medical fitment certificate. Therefore, candidates who want to travel to any of the GCC nations - Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for employment should know which type of Unfit Diseases/health disorders can ban their journey to GCC nations once and all. And the same applies to the candidates who apply for family or residency visas.
Candidates who are a little aware of GAMCA/WAFID medical processes know that obtaining the WAFID fitment certificate is not child’s play. You need to be fit in all aspects – physically and mentally. So, today we would know about a list of diseases and disorders that declare candidates unfit for WAFID and prevent getting a visa for employment, family, or residency.
There are two types of list of WAFID unfit diseases/disorders – Infectious and Non-Infectious. So, to protect the GCC populace from these infectious or non-infectious diseases, GCC has mandated WAFID medical tests to undergo all foreigners.
Such diseases can be infested due to pathogens, viruses, or bacteria. Make sure you don’t have any of the diseases mentioned below.
Generally, non-infectious diseases are caused due genetic issues or malnutrition. Here is the list of non-infectious diseases that declare a candidate unfit for WAFID.
* Diabetes mellitus
* Hypertension or High Blood Pressure
* Neurological disorder
* Congestive heart failure
* Psychiatric problem
* Cancer – any type of
* Chronic renal failure
* Any kind of physical disability
* Hepatitis
If you are affected by any of the infections or non-infectious diseases mentioned above, it lowers the chances to travel to GCC nations and increases the chances of WAFID medical non-fitment.
There are other medical tests performed at the center during the WAFID medical. If you get unfit in any of the tests, you may face trouble to process your visa for traveling to GCC nations. Let us see what types of tests are performed to ensure the fitment candidature for WAFID medical test.