Travel Health Clinic

Services Provided

• Make an Appointment

• Preparation for your travel health consultation
• Travel Health Tips
• Useful Links

 

What Do We Provide?

• Travel Health Consultation:

      Travel health risks for individual traveler or trip are different. The travel health consultation will provide you with personalized information based on your itinerary.

• Health talk for travel groups
• Vaccinations*
• Prophylactic medications for malaria and high altitude sickness
• Travelers’ Medicine Kit
• First Aid Kit
• Insect Repellent

 

*Yellow Fever Vaccine

In Hong Kong, Yellow fever vaccination is only available in the Travel Health Centres, Department of Health. Please note that Yellow fever vaccination certificate is an entry requirement for certain countries and is valid only 10 days after injection. Please reserve sufficient time for vaccination before your trip.

 

Make an Appointment

Please make an appointment for travel health consultation at least 6 weeks before your journey

You can make an appointment:

• In person OR
• By phone: 2766 5433
• Online booking not applicable
• Remark: Our UHS service is available to PolyU full time students and staff only.

Please specify during your booking:

• Number of persons for group travel (Eligible UHS users traveling as a group are encouraged to come together)
• Destination

• Date of travel

 

Preparation For Your Travel Health Consultation

On the day of consultation, please bring with you:

• The itinerary in details (include the date and name of cities that you are visiting, the type of accommodation and planned activities)
• Your vaccination record
• The pre-filled Travel Health Questionnaire (Click to open the document)

** For travel groups with 10 people or more, please send us the above three documents of each traveller at least one week before the health talk.

Travel Health Tips

• Business Traveler
• Deep Vein Thrombosis
• High Altitude Syndrome
• Jet Lag
• Keep an Eye on Food Hygiene Abroad
• Prevention of Mosquito-Borne Diseases
• Rabies Prevention
• Water Purification Methods

 

Useful Links

• Travel Health Service, Department of Health, HKSAR

• Outbound Travel Alert System, Security Bureau

• Registration of Outbound Travel Information, Immigration Department

• World Health Organization (WHO)

      Disease Outbreak News

      International Travel and Health

• Travelers’ Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Global Travel Clinic Directory, International Society of Travel Medicine