MOH issues Health Requisites for Hajj & Umrah season-1430

Riyadh, May 25, SPA -- The Ministry of Health has issued health
requirements to be met for Hajj and Umrah seasons of 1430 (2009) by
pilgrims and Umrah performers.

Firstly: Yellow Fever:

1- All pilgrims arriving from yellow fever endemic countries
(shown below) to present a valid health certificate of vaccination
against the disease according to the International Health
Regulations. The certificate should show that its holder is
vaccinated against the disease before the arrival in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia within a duration of not less than 10 days and not
exceeding more than 10 years.

2- According to international health regulations, all aircraft,
ships and the various means of transport arriving from the infected
countries are required to present a valid certificate of the
extermination of insects namely mosquito on-board.

Following are Yellow fever endemic countries: Angola, Benin, Sudan,
Senegal, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Burundi,
Chad, Uganda, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Ethiopia,
Democratic Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Kenya, Liberia, Sao Tomé and Principe,
Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mali, Ecuador, French
Guiana, Guyana, Brazil, Bolivia, Suriname, Peru, Panama, Trinidad and
Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina and Paraguay.

Secondly: Meningococcal Meningitis

A / for people from all nations of the world are requested to
present valid certificate of vaccination against Meningococcal
meningitis, showing a period not less than 10 days of its issuance
and not exceeding 3 years on the bases that every country makes sure
the vaccination is completed on adults and children over the age of
two years of a single dose of the ACYW135.

B- Coming from the African belt countries.

Namely: Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea Bissau,
Nigeria, Ethiopia, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Benin, Cameroon, Chad,
Eritrea, Gambia, Senegal, Central Africa.

In addition to the ACYW135 vaccine, as mentioned above, the
health authorities in Saudi Arabia outlets will be giving them
preventive dose / single 500 mg dose of ciprofloxacin in order to
reduce potential microbe carrying rate.

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