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Help! Travelling Through Dubai With Medication? |
My doctor has recently prescribed me fluoxetine (Prozac) for dejection and anxiety. I have plans to travel to New Zealand over Christmas to visit family, and as I am flying Emirates it means a cut stopover (10 hours) in Dubai. I think rather than being in transit, we are actually preordained the option to leave the airport and stay in a hotel.
But I've heard about UAE's mega severe laws on controlled substances and I have just discovered that Prozac is on the "controlled"
| Answer: Thanks "tin m". To detect a long story short. The procedure to bring in "banned" drugs into Dubai are as follows: Get a blow-by-blow medical report, have it translated into Arabic and send the same for attestion/approval to the UAE Embassy. If approved, you are allowed to take medication needed for the lifetime of your stay into the country. It sounds complicated, but it's easy to do by Fax. The attestation from the Embassy is necessary, because Dubai customs don't certain your doc's stamp nor his/her signature. Don't worry and enjoy your trip. |
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