DUSHANBE, November 29, 2011, Asia-Plus – Rospotrebnadzor (Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer’s Rights Protection) suggests that the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Tajikistan should organize the preliminary screening (special medical examination) of labor migrants before their entry to Russia, Russia’s news agency, Interfax, reports.
According to a statement released by Rospotrebnadzor, 890,000 foreign citizens and stateless persons have undergone medical examination in Russia over the first eleven months of this year.
The document says that 336 cases of infectious diseases posing threat to others, including 96 cases of HIV infection, 166 cases of tuberculosis and 74 cases of syphilis, have allegedly been detected in citizens coming from the Republic of Tajikistan.
Foreign citizens in whom such diseases are detected are liable for deportation from Russia, the statement says.
To-date, Rospotrebnadzor has reportedly handed down 1,117 rulings on undesirability of stay of migrants from 23 countries in Russia; of these rulings, 204 concern citizens of Tajikistan.
The rulings have been submitted to the Federal Migration Service for further deportation of sick migrants from the Russian Federation, the statement says.
We will recall that Russia”s chief sanitary inspector Gennady Onishchenko said on November 14 that many labor migrants from Tajikistan have recently been diagnosed with HIV and tuberculosis. He did not explain the circumstances under which the Tajiks were tested for the two conditions. He said that “a possible solution in this case is a full ban on the use of labor migrants from this country until at least minimal healthcare is created there.” Onishchenko said that last year 188 Tajiks were deported from Russia for health reasons.
It is to be noted that these developments have arisen after a Tajik court sentenced two pilots of Rolkan Investment Ltd to eight-and-a-half years in prison each for border violations and smuggling.
