The Ministry of Health has started receiving new pupils at school health centres to open their health file before the school year begins. The first step is not going to the centre but booking an appointment online: the ministry asked parents to book before attending, and anyone arriving without an appointment risks being turned away at the door.
Start on the website, not at the centre
Booking goes through the school health portal on the ministry site: shonline.moh.gov.kw/SchoolHealthPortal. The page is headed “opening a health file for new pupils”, and starts with a single field: the pupil’s civil ID number.
After that the form asks for the card serial number, the parent’s civil ID, an email address, the school year, the school name from a list, then an upload of the pupil’s photo, a declaration that the details are correct, and finally the appointment date.
Two details save a parent a second trip:
- The pupil’s photo is uploaded digitally. The form has an upload button, so have it ready on your phone before you start rather than printed in a folder.
- The class list starts at kindergarten. The school year field runs from LKG and UKG through grade one up to grade eleven, and the school list includes private and model schools alongside government ones.
Eight centres across the six governorates
- Capital: Hamad Al-Sagar health centre, Adailiya.
- Hawally: school health centre, Bayan, block 7, street 1.
- Farwaniya: Riggae health centre.
- Mubarak Al-Kabeer: school health centre, Adan, block 2, street 60.
- Ahmadi: Fahaheel health centre, and Sabah Al-Ahmad health centre, sector D.
- Jahra: Jahra health centre, and Mutlaa health centre N8.
Hours
Sunday to Thursday. Mornings 7:30 to 1:30, evenings 2:00 to 8:30.
Two centres fall outside those hours: Sabah Al-Ahmad, sector D receives pupils in the morning only. And Mutlaa N8 has a particular situation worth pausing on.
Mutlaa N8: two different accounts, so call first
The information published about Mutlaa N8 appeared in two contradictory forms from the ministry itself on the same day:
- The information card the Ministry of Health published on its official accounts says the centre receives pupils in the morning only, on Sundays and Tuesdays.
- The press statement the ministry distributed through the Kuwait News Agency, and which the papers ran, says it receives pupils in the evening only, because the centre sees patients in the morning.
The difference is not a detail: it is the difference between going on a Sunday morning and going on a Wednesday evening. A parent in Mutlaa saves themselves a trip by calling the centre or confirming the slot on the portal before setting off.
The same discrepancy appears in the Hawally centre’s address: the card writes “avenue 9”, the press statement “avenue 8”. Which is why we have given only the block and street above.
Documents required
- A copy of the parent’s civil ID.
- A copy of the pupil’s civil ID.
- The pupil’s school acceptance notice.
- A copy of the birth certificate.
- A copy of the vaccination record.
- A recent photograph of the pupil.
- A recent medical report for any existing condition.
Two conditions without which the examination is refused
The acceptance notice is issued electronically by the Ministry of Education. A letter from the school office does not stand in for it.
The pupil must attend in person with the parent. The examination is of the pupil, so a parent arriving with the paperwork alone is not enough.
Sources: the information card published on the Ministry of Health’s official accounts, the school health portal on the ministry site, and the ministry’s press statement via the Kuwait News Agency.
Photo: a stethoscope. By Jacek Halicki, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
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