Select Travel Vaccinations
To provide convenience for the busy traveller, selected vaccinations are now available online. All you need to do is to select your vaccination, receive an email confirmation, and call us to book your vaccine for a hassle-free health service.
Flu Vaccines
Getting a flu vaccination before you depart helps reduces the chances of getting influenza, or the flu. It is a contagious viral disease that causes fevers, chills, runny nose, sore throat and muscle aches. This disease is spread by close contact, coughing or sneezing, and it can infect anyone.
As the flu virus is constantly evolving, getting your flu vaccination yearly is recommended, especially for the individuals listed below:
- Persons above 65 years of age
- Adults with chronic conditions of the heart and lung, including asthma
- Diabetic patients
- Children between the age of 6 months to below 5 years old
- Frequent Travellers
- Pregnant ladies
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B is a potentially life-threatening liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). It is spread through blood, transfusion of blood products and sharing of bodily fluids. Symptoms include fever, nausea, vomiting, dark urine and jaundice.
A Hepatitis B vaccination is recommended for those travelling to Asia, South and Central America, or Africa. Pre-vaccination, an antibodies test is recommended.
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is a viral liver disease that can cause mild to severe illness. The virus is primarily spread when an uninfected (and unvaccinated) person ingests food or water that is contaminated with the faeces of an infected person. Symptoms include fever, fatigue, abdominal pain, pale stools, dark-coloured urine, loss of appetite, and yellowing of the skin or eyes.
This vaccination is recommended for travellers going to countries where hepatitis A is common.
Twinrix
Twinrix is a combined hepatitis A and B vaccine that can be given as a convenient alternative for individuals who lack immunity to both hepatitis A and B.
Three doses will be given, with the second and third dose given one and six months after the first dose.
Yellow Fever
Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne infection. In urban areas, transmission is from human to human via the mosquito (Aedes Aegypti). The disease is present in Africa , Central and South America.
Vaccination is recommended for people aged 9 months or older, and who are traveling to or living in areas at risk for yellow fever virus in Africa, Central and South America. A proof of yellow fever vaccine may be required for entry into certain countries.
You must get the vaccination at least 10 days before your trip.
