Medical certificates for travel | SAUDIA
The following scheme, contains table of, some of the common medical conditions which may cause potential delay or diversion. Each medical condition, has the estimated period of recovery and Saudia requirement if any.
Cardiovascular conditions
| Remarks for treating doctor's information | Required Saudia travel Clearance form | Absolutely not suitable for travel | Medical condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Must be stable and no angina at rest | Control achieved only (within recently 14 days) | Unstable angina | Angina/ chest pain due to heart problems |
| Must be stable | Within 14-21 days or with complications | Within last 10 days | Myocardial infarction / heart attack |
| If borderline, medical oxygen maybe necessary | If cardiac failure is controlled and stable | Uncontrolled heart failure | Health failure |
| Does not include benign arrhythmias | Within 21-14 days | Within 10 days | Serious cardiac arrhythmia / irregular heart beat |
| Within 10 days | 48 hours after placement | With pacemakers | |
| 21 days | Less than 48 hours | Angiography | |
| 21 days | 7 days or less | Angioplasty with or without stent | |
| 14-21 days (CABG and value surgery) | 14 days or less | Cardiac surgery | |
| Stable an oral anticoagulants | On anti-coagulants | If active | Thrombophlebitis of legs |
| Stable anticoagulation and PAD2 normal on room air | 14-21 days | Onset of 7 days or less | DVT/pulmonary embolism or risk of DVT |
| Stable | Chronic disease | Hgp less than 8.5 mg/dl | Anemia |
| Always need oxygen supplement | 14 days and over | Sickling crisis in previous 14 days | Sickle cell disease |
Respiratory conditions
| Remarks for treating doctor's information | Required Saudia travel Clearance form | Absolutely not suitable for travel | Medical condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Must have no air on chest cavity on chest x-ray | 14-21 days after full inflation | 10 days or less after full inflation | Pneumothorax hem pneumothorax |
| stable | 14-21 days | 14 days or less | Chest surgery e.g., lobectomy |
| Full recovered or if -ray signs persist, must have be symptom -free | Within 7 days of resolution- complications or on-going symptoms | Acute, symptomatic | Pneumonia |
| Supplementary oxygen maybe required in flight | If unstable or poor exercise tolerance of less than 50 meters' recent exacerbation (10 days) | Cyanosis on the ground despite supplementary oxygen unresolved recent exacerbation | COPD, emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, pleural effusion and hemothroax |
| Must be stable and have medication with them | Severe episode or hospitalization within 72 hours | Recent sever attack within 72 hours | asthma |
Neurological conditions
| Remarks for treating doctor's information | Required Saudia travel Clearance form | Absolutely not suitable for travel | Medical condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Must be stabilized | 7-10 days | less than 3 days | Transient Ischemic Attack |
| Must be self-sufficient otherwise escort /carers required | 7-14 days | Less than 7 days | Stroke |
| stable | Within 7 days of last fit | Less than 24 hours or unstable | Grand mal fir/ epilepsy |
| Cranium must be free of air | 10-21 days | 10 days or less | Cranial surgery |
Psychiatric conditions
| Remarks for treating doctor's information | Required Saudia travel Clearance form | Absolutely not suitable for travel | Medical condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proving stable for days. Travel may be approved with suitable medical escort / carers | Within 14 days of unstable episode or hospitalization | If unstable | Acute psychosis (e.g. mania, schizophrenia during induced) |
Eye conditions
| Remarks for treating doctor's information | Required Saudia travel Clearance form | Absolutely not suitable for travel | Medical condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Any gas in globe must be reabsorbed | 14-21 days | 14 days or less | Penetrating eye injury |
| 3-7 days | less than 72 hours | Cataract surgery | |
| 3-7 days | Less than 72 hours | Corneal laser surgery |
Pregnancy
- Child birth is expected in less than 4 weeks.
- Uncertainty exists over the progress of the pregnancy and the date of delivery.
- There were previous multiple births childbirth complications are expected.
- The medical certificate must be issued within 7 days of the flight date.
Newborn
Trauma
| Remarks for treating doctor's information | Required Saudia travel Clearance form | Absolutely not suitable for travel | Medical condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Must be split if less than 4 hours prior to departure | Full plaster cast | ||
| Must be medically stable and well in other aspects | Within 10 days of burn or surgical treatment | If still shocked or with widespread infection or greater than %20 total body surface area | burns |
Miscellaneous
| Remarks for treating doctor's information | Required Saudia travel Clearance form | Absolutely not suitable for travel | Medical condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical condition may require stretcher, escort/carers or oxygen. Will not accept passengers at risk of dying during flight | All cases | If at risk of death during flight | Terminal illness |
| Preferably after 48 hours | No required unless recent decompression sickness | No within 24 hours of diving | Scuba diving |
| MEDIF and Escort | All cases | Cannot travel without escort | Jaw wires |
| No abscess | Presence of dental abscess | Less than 24 hours or presence of an abscess | Tooth extraction |
Communicable Diseases
| Remarks for treating doctor's information | Required Saudia travel Clearance form | Absolutely not suitable for travel | Medical condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| None contagious | None | There's still pus discharging from the eye and not responding on antibiotics | Bacterial conjunctivitis |
| All lesions are dried and crusted | None | With active lesions, present | Chicken pox/ shingles |
| None contagious | Mandatory | Visited epidemic arears within the last 6 months | Ebola virus |
| None contagious | None | Within 7 days after the onset of the rash | German mistakes rubella |
| Required | HIV Virus | ||
| Travel not recommended unless an appropriate treatment and covered in watertight dressings | If unsure | If not on treatment or if blisters uncovered | Impetigo |
| Travel not suitable for those displaying obvious signs of influenza /unwell | required | If symptomatic (eg.fever , cough, aches and pains ) | Influenza |
| Negative swab | Mandatory | If symptomatic | MERS/ Corona virus |
| If swelling is still preset after 10 days or unwell | Less then 10 days after onset of swelling | mumps | |
| Travel not suitable until day after treatment has begun | If swelling is still present after 10 days or unwell | If not treated or just in the first day of treatment | Scabies |
| All cases of tuberculosis must have a travel clearance from completed. Passengers with tuberculosis will not be cleared until their treating physician can confirm that they are not infection or can present a medical report. | If infectious | Tuberculosis | |
| May travel after 7 days of effective antibiotic therapy | If on ongoing effective antibiotic therapy longer than 7 days | Within 3 weeks from the onset of the whoop (if not on treatment) or within 7 days of effective antibiotic therapy | Whooping cough/ pertussis |
Communicable Diseases
- All travelers onboard SAUDIA aircrafts should have no communicable disease that would jeopardize the safety of other passengers onboard the aircraft.
- Any ill passengers travelling on board SAUDIA should have had his MEDIF filled and signed by his treating physician. This would include communicable and no communicable diseases.
- All passengers with communicable disease should identify themselves and their disease to any SAUDIA Agents at any of the following points:
- Ticketing Office.
- Reservation Office
- Airport Customer Services Agents
- Airport Ground Traffic Agents.
- SAUDIA has the right to prevent or refuse the transportation of any passenger who would be or might be a medical threat to other passengers.
- In case of abrupt health deterioration due to high altitude, or long air travel, SAUDI bears no medico-legal liability to an ill passenger who fails to identify themselves prior to departure.
- SAUDIA is not held responsible for the consequences of aircraft cross-infection as result of transporting an ill passenger who failed to identify himself prior to departures.
- SAUDIA has an obligation to ill passengers who were able to identify themselves.
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In case SAUDIA has accepted the transportation of an identified passenger with communicable disease, then SAUDIA has obligation to ensure the medical safety of other passenger.
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Note: Preventive measures to prevent transmission of Ebola: Directorate General of Lebanese Civil Aviation announced that all carriers are requested to fill the attached medical form for passengers travelling from Congo & Uganda to RHI Airport and to be delivered to Quarantine Service at the RHI. Please click here , to fill the attached medical form for passengers travelling from Congo & Uganda.