All schools in Kuwait require your children to have a health card that certifies they have received all required vaccines. Moms in Kuwait should take your children to the clinic for your area that administers the BCG. If you aren't sure, you’ll need to go to your local polyclinic and ask. (Some of the clinics that do administer the BCG include Abdullah al Salem, Jabriya, Rumaithiya, Salmiya and Sabah hospital but these also sometimes change without notice so it’s best to ask at the place where you normally get your children’s vaccines.)
Take with you the following:
- Child’s birth certificate and photo copy
- Child’s Kuwait Civil ID (bitaqa) and photo copy-
- Child’s vaccination records and photo copy (also an Arabic translation and photocopy if its in English)
- One passport photos of child (blue background)
We live in Salwa and so are required to go to the main polyclinic in Salmiya on Salem Al Mubarak Street (next to Sultan Center). Each governorate has a main clinic and you will need to go to that one depending on where you live.
At the Salmiya Clinic, we went upstairs to reception to open the file. Then we went around the corner to see the first nurse/doctor who asked family medical history questions and stamped the papers. Then we went downstairs to the second doctor (ground floor pediatrics, room 2) and there a doctor listen to our daughter's chest, asked a few more questions and added a second stamp to the file. Then back upstairs to reception again for a final stamp to complete the file.
Took us about 30 minutes in all, but we went early in the morning to avoid a crowd. After the file has all three stamps, you can take it to your child's school nurse.
We recommend making a copy of the completed and stamped health file for your own records before you give it to the school.
Good luck!
Editor's Note: Government procedures in Kuwait change frequently. This information was updated in September 2014.
Take with you the following:
- Child’s birth certificate and photo copy
- Child’s Kuwait Civil ID (bitaqa) and photo copy-
- Child’s vaccination records and photo copy (also an Arabic translation and photocopy if its in English)
- One passport photos of child (blue background)
We live in Salwa and so are required to go to the main polyclinic in Salmiya on Salem Al Mubarak Street (next to Sultan Center). Each governorate has a main clinic and you will need to go to that one depending on where you live.
At the Salmiya Clinic, we went upstairs to reception to open the file. Then we went around the corner to see the first nurse/doctor who asked family medical history questions and stamped the papers. Then we went downstairs to the second doctor (ground floor pediatrics, room 2) and there a doctor listen to our daughter's chest, asked a few more questions and added a second stamp to the file. Then back upstairs to reception again for a final stamp to complete the file.
Took us about 30 minutes in all, but we went early in the morning to avoid a crowd. After the file has all three stamps, you can take it to your child's school nurse.
We recommend making a copy of the completed and stamped health file for your own records before you give it to the school.
Good luck!
Editor's Note: Government procedures in Kuwait change frequently. This information was updated in September 2014.
Locations of medical centers for completing children's medical files. (Editor's Note: This information is subject to change by the Kuwait Health Ministry and may be changed without notice.)