Additional Instructions Regards Travel Clearance & Vaccines

Dear students, 

This is a friendly reminder please to complete your travel clearance before travelling to Ghana and to book in with OH team to secure your vaccines.

To assist this process, the OH team have provided this helpful presentation which covers travel safety including water safety, bite avoidance and guidance on anti-malarials. Please speak to your OH nurse if you have any questions, and a reminder that everyone requires a yellow fever vaccine certificate as part of the visa process and at border control to enter Accra.

OH Travel Guidance Slides
- Slides are also located under RESOURCES < DOCUMENTS on the module website
- There is audio available on the slides, please view in PRESENTATION mode and then click play when you hover over the speaker symbol. 

Note when completing the Travel Clearance
Please put Somaya Wessels (s.ebrahim@imperial.ac.uk) as your line manager so I can track who has completed the travel clearance. 

Locating OH in Sherfield Building
You will need to enter via the Sherfield walkway grey door next to the vegan/pizza outlet. Photo below.

Actions required for Ghana Business Challenge 

Students travelling to Ghana will be required to obtain Travel Clearance from Imperial's Occupational Health team to validate the travel insurance. Please do this no later than 10 March 2025

As part of the travel clearance, vaccines will be recommended to students based on past travel vaccine history. Students opting to obtain vaccines through Imperial will be invited to book an appointment via Occupational Health.

Travel Clearance Form Instructions

Occupational Health have transitioned to Cority, a cloud-based clinical records and appointments system.

All existing "paper-based" health assessment questionnaires we have received will not be processed.

Please follow the weblink below to access the relevant online form in the ‘myCority’ portal. 

To log in please use single sign on by clicking on the button “Login with SSO” as show in the image below, some users may not be auto enrolled in which case please register using the instructions contained in the myCority Guide.

Travel Health Form Link

Registration issues

If you encounter any issues with registering or logging on to myCority please contact ICT Helpdesk on 020 7594 9000 who will be able to assist you further.

Vaccine Recommendations

The Occupational Health team will advise if you need to take or update your vaccinations before travel. This is a recommendation from the team but we would encourage you to follow their advice.

You have the choice to book your vaccines through OH or privately.

1. Vaccines booked via OH – you will need to call the OH reception desk to make an appointment. They are based in the Sherfield building. Vaccines booked through OH are charged to our account, so there’s no expenses to submit.
2. Vaccines booked privately – make an appointment via your travel clinic and submit expenses.

Vaccine expenses are covered by Imperial for all students on the module. Below pricing is based on OH fees, however vaccines booked privately may vary.

 

Ghana: https://travelhealthpro.org.uk/country/89/ghana

• Yellow Fever - £41
• Hepatitis A (unless they have had 2 vaccines at least 6 months apart) - £23
• Diphtheria, Tetanus and Polio (unless had a vaccine within last 10 years) - £9
• Typhoid vaccine (unless had a vaccine in last 3 years) - £13
• Ghana is a high risk country for malaria so all on this trip will require anti malaria tablets. They can purchase malaria tablets online without a prescription from reputable sources such as LloydsPharmacy, Dr Fox, Travelpharm. Maloff Protect (Atovaquone/Proguanil) is available without prescription over the counter from many pharmacies and you can also purchase Malarone generically as Atovaquone/Proguanil. 
• Bite avoidance measures should be followed