Blood Tests..what diseases ..???

apc2010


Joined: 28/07/2010
Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
31/08/2010 20:27

what diseases are they checking for and if you "fail" the test what will happen ???

especially if you own property ???

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
31/08/2010 20:39

Not sure about now, but it was for Hepatitis, HIV and Aids and Tubercolosis.



DD

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
31/08/2010 21:13

Still the same. If positive for aids you would be asked to leave.

stellasstar1



Joined: 02/07/2008
Posts: 1519

Message Posted:
01/09/2010 12:20

Now I know why they are not testing the over 60's, because normally it would be the over 60's that were tested for medical problems, to see if you were healthy enough to stay in their country.

banjo


Joined: 28/01/2009
Posts: 113

Message Posted:
01/09/2010 15:52

But both hepatitis and tuberculosis are serious as well. Are you, Deniz1, suggesting nothing will happen?

Do you know where we can read more about what the police is on this issue?

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
01/09/2010 15:54

you can read more in todays cyprus today, claiming as younger people are coming from various parts of the globe, they may bring sexual diseases.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
01/09/2010 16:05

It's all a bit of a joke really shouldn't they be concentrating on the night clubs, and don't the 'local' young have sex and are as much at risk!



Chris

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2918

Message Posted:
01/09/2010 16:12

I can't speak for NC but I did question the very same thing when in Dubai who do the blood tests and also do chect x-ray for the first residency visa. The reason for the checks is to find anyone with these potential diseases and refuse them allowance of residency, not so much for the seriousness of the disease but because of the prohibitive costs of treating them.

They are as I am sure Chris will confirm, delibitating diseases that mean once the serious reactions of the disease set in you might not be able to be flown out of the country safely therefore they don't want to have to fit the bill of a foreigner when they can just as easily say no you can't come in. Makes sense really, in a way.



I guess it is the same here.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
01/09/2010 16:17

Paul it is no longer just for the 1st residency it is every year for people under the age of 60! Does not matter that I have been married all these years and hubby is 60. I will have to do this for the next 5 years until I am 60.



I just find it all a bit ludicrous what in gods name are they going to think up next?



Chris

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2918

Message Posted:
01/09/2010 16:30

Chris, I know what you're saying, my darling wife has to do it for many more years.



I have a slightly different outlook to this because my wife is non-european. Here she is considered the same as any non local which I think is fair. In the UK it is a nightmare to get anything done legally because she is not european, the fact that we are married and even that our son is british doesn't mean squat.



Systems change and we either adapt to the requirements of the governing body or we decide to move elsewhere. I know people will say that it is difficult to just up sticks and leave when you have invested everything but the government is looking after the country not the visitors whether we like it or not. They have done the same thing or in my opinion worse in UAE with residency laws but people in NC only want to know about NC.

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
01/09/2010 17:42

so your safe fromm tb aids etc if your over 60 !!!!



more fund raising for trnc again via expats dont think they will stop at that

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2918

Message Posted:
01/09/2010 17:43

waterproof teabag

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
01/09/2010 20:46

If it was to raise revenue they would test everyone regardless of age.



My main bugbear apart from the hassle is being treated like a "sex trade worker" after over 30 years of monogamy.



Obviously local people and over 60's foreigners are past the sex thing.



At least that is the message from the government.



Imagine the reaction if they tried to bring a law in like that in the West?



Europe, the USA, and Canada, not Alsancak etc.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
02/09/2010 00:20

well i guess we dont do sex after 60, unless you go to a nightclub. crazy

ClaireCat44



Joined: 17/09/2008
Posts: 739

Message Posted:
02/09/2010 10:20

In this part of the world where there is a shorter life expectancy, 60 means about 90, doesn't it?

mitsi


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 345

Message Posted:
02/09/2010 13:34

Pathetic ignorant people!!!!!! An aids test reveals diddly squat if you have recently become infected. T.B is rampant in the Eastern block and is back with a vengeance. There are more than 8 forms of Hepatitis and more metamorphasising fast. They will never keep TRNC free of all these infections as the tests are infrequent and probably unreliable with the standards here. Most people are already infected with TB but it takes a second contact to manifest the didease. Routine T.B. vaccinations have been stopped in UK and never even implemented in many other countries so look-out.

Krypton


Joined: 02/09/2010
Posts: 179

Message Posted:
03/09/2010 23:49

Speak for yoursel Lilli, lots of folk have sex after they are 60, I hope!!!