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UK now requires TB testing for long-term visitors, students

Nov 08, 2013 News

Britain has introduced measures that will mandate all Guyanese visiting for more than six months to be screened for tubercolosis (TB), as part of the pre-entry process.
The British High Commission yesterday announced that the requirement went into effect from October 31st and is for all individuals in Guyana who are applying for a UK visa which is longer than six months including those applying for a Tier 4 student visa.
“Pre-entry TB screening is not required for those going to the UK as a tourist or other type of visitor, except for those applying for a fiancé visa.”
The Commission disclosed that the decision follows the UK Government’s announcement in May 2012 that it would be extending this requirement to an additional 67 countries, including Guyana, based on the figures for high TB incidence provided by the World Health Organisation.
“This brings the UK into line with the practice of a number of other countries including the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand,” the Commission explained.
The process will require individuals to be screened and obtain a certificate from a Home Office-approved Health Centre in Guyana to show that they are free of TB before they make a UK visa application. “They will need to include the TB certificate with their visa application.”
According to the Commission, a fee is payable for the screening.
The approved test clinics include Iris Chin-See, Medical Arts Centre; Roger Viapree, Woodlands Hospital; Surendra Persaud, Caribbean Surgery Inc. and Dr. Ayra Devi Karyampudi, St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital.
TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria. Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air. Most infections are asymptomatic and latent, but about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease which, if left untreated, kills more than 50% of those so infected.
The classic symptoms of active TB infection are a chronic cough with blood-tinged sputum, fever, night sweats, and weight loss (the latter giving rise to the formerly prevalent term “consumption”).

 

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