East Mediterr Health J. 2013 Jul;19(7):664-70.
Expatriate workers must be medically examined in their country of origin at accredited centres prior to their arrival in any Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) country and are reexamined when they enter the country. This review investigated the epidemiological profile of registered expatriate workers in Saudi Arabia who were found medically unfit to work. A descriptive analysis was performed on 4,272,480 records of a Ministry of Health database from 1997 to 2010. The greatest proportion of workers was from Indonesia (34.3%). The total proportion of unfit expatriate workers was low (0.71%). The highest rate of unfitness was among workers from Ethiopia (4.06%), followed by Somalia (2.41%). Hepatitis B infection was the most common cause (57.5%), followed by noncommunicable diseases (21.2%) and hepatitis C infection (17.4%). This review suggests that the total number of workers registered in the Saudi Ministry of Health was underestimated, and the rate of unfit workers was lower than for other GCC countries, suggesting that standards and quality assurance in Saudi laboratories require revision.
侨民工人必须在原籍国的认可中心进行体检，然后才能抵达海湾合作委员会（GCC）的任何国家，并在入境时再次接受体检。本研究调查了在沙特阿拉伯被发现不适合工作的注册侨民工人的流行病学特征。对卫生部数据库 1997 年至 2010 年的 4,272,480 份记录进行了描述性分析。工人中比例最大的是印度尼西亚（34.3%）。不适合的侨民工人的总比例较低（0.71%）。不适合率最高的是来自埃塞俄比亚的工人（4.06%），其次是索马里（2.41%）。乙型肝炎感染是最常见的原因（57.5%），其次是非传染性疾病（21.2%）和丙型肝炎感染（17.4%）。本研究表明，沙特卫生部登记的工人总数被低估，不适合工人的比例低于其他 GCC 国家，这表明沙特实验室的标准和质量保证需要修订。
