NOTE: Kindly be informed that effective 17 June 2024, our health assessment service fees will be adjusted. This is necessary to sustain and improve the quality of our services, ensuring a better experience for all migrants.

Programme Overview

“To ensure healthy migrants live in healthy communities”

Migration Health Assessments are among the most well-established migration management services offered by IOM. Health assessments provide the opportunity to promote the health of migrants through the initiation of preventative and curative interventions for conditions that, if left untreated, could have a negative impact on the migrant's health and/or on the public health of the host communities.

Travel Health Assistance is a health assessment-related service offered to address individual health and safety, and to manage conditions of public health concerns as individuals move across geographical, epidemiological and health system boundaries. Within Health Assessment Programmes, pre-embarkation checks and pre-departure medical screenings are performed in order to assess a migrant's fitness to travel and/or to provide medical clearance. These measures also ensure that migrants are linked to and given appropriate referrals to medical services once they arrive in their destination countries.

The Migration Health Assessment Centre (MHAC) became operational in Nigeria on 2 January 2014 and currently has four (4) main operational centres in Abuja, Benin City, and Lagos.

MHAC carries out health assessments for various categories of migrants, including resettling refugees, labour migrants and displaced persons, either before preparation for departure or upon embarkation. 

MHAC offers pre-departure services, including treatment for endemic conditions such as malaria and diagnostic treatment for tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections. MHAC also immunizes migrants and refugees against vaccine-preventable diseases and offers an array of specialized counselling.

REPORT FRAUD!

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has been informed that scammers are falsely offering medical examination appointments at its Migration Health Assessment Centre (MHAC) with the motive of obtaining personal information or soliciting money from applicants. 

We encourage all applicants to exercise caution by noting that:

• IOM emails applicants from official email addresses ending with “iom.int” and will never email from a non-official address such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.
• IOM Nigeria only accepts payment at our centre during your appointment or online via Standard Chatered Bank. For online payments via SCB, please see information sheets below on Payment Methods.
• IOM Nigeria does not use WhatsApp for scheduling of Medical Examination appointments.
• Our unified contact number is 02-14656600 (Landline).

Online Appointment

Migration Health Assessment Centre in Nigeria

The purpose of health assessments is to identify and address conditions of public health and public safety concern, and conditions impacting health and social services. Our goal is to inform migrants of their health conditions and needs, and to facilitate their integration into host communities.

• Expert Physicians
  MHAC Nigeria employs licensed and skilled national and international physicians who are trained by IOM and partner government authorities to administer comprehensive migration health assessment services, in accordance with the technical instructions (TI) of destination countries.

• Public Health Approach
  MHAC conducts mandatory health education sessions and professional pre/post-HIV counselling and testing, including the dissemination of culturally appropriate health information materials. MHAC treats endemic conditions, such as malaria, typhoid and others, and provides treatment for tuberculosis, STIs and AIDS. MHAC provides immunizations for vaccine-preventable diseases, such as yellow fever, measles, polio, hepatitis A and B, meningitis, varicella and others.

• Dignity
  MHAC’s pre-departure medical procedures always ensure migrants are fit to travel in a safe and dignified manner. This guarantees the health and wellbeing of the migrant, fellow travellers and receiving communities.

• Accountability
  At MHAC, the health assessment of migrants is tailored to satisfy the existing TIs of the destination countries. Quality control, assurance and anti-fraud measures are implemented at all stages, and regularly updated.

Health Assessment Information Sheets for applicants

• Health Assessment Information Sheet for Australia visa applicants Nigeria, please visit here.
• Health Assessment Information Sheet for Canada visa applicants in Nigeria, please visit here.
• Health Assessment Information Sheet for New Zealand visa applicants in Nigeria, please visit here.
• Health Assessment Information Sheet for long-term United Kingdom visa applicants in Nigeria, please visit here. 
• Health Assessment Information Sheet for USA visa applicants in Nigeria, please visit here.

Services Offered at MHAC Nigeria

IOM’s Migration Health Assessment Centre in Nigeria offers a broad range of services, including:

• Health assessments for migrants, as per the guidelines and instructions of receiving countries;
• Treatment for medical conditions which pose a risk to public health, such as tuberculosis, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases;
• Immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases;
• Prophylaxis against malaria, tuberculosis and opportunistic infections in immunocompromized individuals;
• Professional medical assistance and special travel arrangements for sick or vulnerable persons during travel, including medical escorting;
• Assistance in DNA testing and/or DNA sample collection for immigration purposes.

Location

The Migration Health Assessment Centre (MHAC) has four (4) main operational centres in Abuja, Benin City, and Lagos.

Contact

Please reach us directly via

• 02-014656600 (landline)
• iomabujamedicalbooking@iom.int (Abuja)
• iombenincitymedicalbooking@iom.int (Benin City)
• iomlagosmedicalbooking@iom.int (Lagos) 

Frequently Asked Questions

What documents do I need to bring on my appointment date?

• Passport (valid original); in exceptional cases where your original passport is not available, a colour photocopy. of the valid passport certified by the Australian immigration authorities will be accepted.
• Health examinations list (Health Assessment Process Letter) with HAP ID. Medical Records
• Any medical reports on past or current medical conditions.
• Vaccination records(optional).
• Child Health and Development Record for children, if available.
• Eyeglasses or lenses, if you wear them.
• Address in country of origin printed.
• If you pre-paid for your migration health assessment, please bring printed proof of payment.

Can I contact you via WhatsApp?

Please note that we are not on WhatsApp. Our unified contact number is - 02-014656600 (landline).