anyone here who has a medical surveillance letter.

[IAMANILOV]

hi, i have a friend and he's a TFW. he arrived here in canada last may, then he told me that he has this medical surveillance letter indicating that he needs to report in Cnada's Health Center within 30days of arrival in Canada because of having inactive TB but he failed to do so. And he also mentioned that there's a date written in his passport same date as when he took medical in manila.

Anyone here who can give advise on what they did. so i can help him. thanks in advance.

 

[computergeek]

hi, i have a friend and he's a TFW. he arrived here in canada last may, then he told me that he has this medical surveillance letter indicating that he needs to report in Cnada's Health Center within 30days of arrival in Canada because of having inactive TB but he failed to do so. And he also mentioned that there's a date written in his passport same date as when he took medical in manila.

Anyone here who can give advise on what they did. so i can help him. thanks in advance.

He'd best report for surveillance ASAP. By failing to do that, he is in default of the conditions of his work permit. He needs to correct that - it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse.

Inactive TB just means they want to monitor him, so that if it becomes active they can treat him. By failing to conduct proper surveillance, if his TB becomes active he endangers himself and everyone around him as well - TB is a dangerous infectious disease. Maybe his TB is gone in which case the surveillance can stop, but without follow-up he won't know.

http://www.toronto.ca/health/professionals/communicable_diseases/tb/tb_newcomers_factsheet.htm

 

[IAMANILOV]

thank u for giving me such info. i'll tell him soon.