INFORMATION ABOUT FOMEMA

FOMEMA -Foreign Workers Medical Examination Monitoring Agency FOMEMA strives and aims to ensure that identified communicable diseases are prevented from entering the country through our stringent monitoring and supervision of medical examinations on foreign workers.

Our vision is to be the premier agency responsible for the monitoring and supervision of such medical examinations in Malaysia. We are setting the standards for medical examinations so that your family, loved ones and fellow workers will be safe from these communicable diseases. This will also bring about tangible and intangible benefits to you and the country such as higher productivity, lower absenteeism and lower health care cost for everyone. In doing so, we also ensure that our public health facilities are not unduly burdened due to the large presence of unhealthy and unsuitable foreign workers crowding and utilizing these subsidized facilities or needing prolonged and extensive treatment.

FOMEMA will do its utmost to provide a fail-safe and secure monitoring and supervisory system for your protection. We hope you too, will play your part, and help us in Caring for Malaysia. OBJECTIVES OF THE FOREIGN WORKERS' HEALTH-SCREENING PROGRAM The Government's objectives for the mandatory health screening program of foreign workers are: To ensure that our country is free from identified communicable diseases; and To ensure that our national public health facilities are not overburdened by unhealthy foreign workers with conditions requiring prolonged and extensive treatment. OUR ROLE To monitor and supervise the medical examinations of foreign workers in Malaysia carried out by panel doctors', X-ray facilities and laboratories registered with Fomema. To ensure that the medical examinations carried out are of high quality and of such integrity as to be in compliance with approved standards, procedures and criteria. To establish a nationwide system of monitoring and supervision in the form of surveillance and inspectorate activities. To provide an IT infrastructure to enable secured transmission of results of by panel doctors, X-ray clinics and laboratories to the Immigration Department. To provide information and statistics enabling the health authorities to take immediate control measures to deal with communicable diseases detected among the foreign workers. To miminise likely abuses by irresponsible parties seeking to defraud the medical examination of foreign workers.