Mandatory Medical Certificate

Last modified: 15. November 2022

Based on the Government Decree 16/2021 (I. 22) on the medical examinations of students from abroad during a state of emergency, all SH and Diaspora applicants are required to upload a medical certificate of satisfactory health condition to the online system.

Please find below the mandatory template of the medical certificate which needs to be issued and signed by a physician: https://tka.hu/docs/palyazatok/mandatory_medical_certificate_template.pdf

Mandatory Medical Certificate applies to those Stipendium Hungaricum and Diaspora 1st-year students as well who are already in Hungary and will have a new student status from September on: preparatory course participants, those who change major or institution and those who continue their studies at a higher level. For the medical certificate, contact your district GP as soon as possible.

Question 7 (Has the patient been vaccinated against typhoid? * Please note that vaccination is compulsory.
*To be filled out only in case of endemic countries) refers to the following endemic countries:

Asia: India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia

Africa: Zimbabwe, Uganda, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan, Eritrea, Congo, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Madagascar

South America: Peru, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador