Couples contemplating marriage must take a premarital test to ensure that they don’t have any medical issues beginning Nov. 4.
Secretary-General of the Council of Health Services, Yacoub bin Youssef Al-Mazroua, said the council approved the proposal aimed at ensuring healthy marriages. Health departments and agencies will be required to implement the decision from the month of Muharram through an electronic program.
The details will be shared between the Ministry of Health and other authorities like the Ministry of Justice to ensure that the required tests have been conducted and to monitor cases of noncompliance. The Ministry of Justice will not attest any certificate issued manually or electronically from a different program after this date.
Al-Mazroua said the council discussed the contents of the amended national health records prepared for the working group comprising the Higher Ministerial Committee for Administrative Organization, the Departments of Legal Affairs and Finance of the General Secretariat of the Council of Health Services.
This is to ensure that health record regulations were in compliance with those of the National Center for Health Information, which includes national records for common diseases and epidemics in the Kingdom.
The meeting also approved inspecting ambulances to ensure that they adhere to regulations concerning standards and equipment set by the Saudi Red Crescent Authority based on the recommendations of the National Commission of Emergency Medicine.
Ministries to share premarital tests data
