Abu Dhabi: Saudi Arabia requires brides and grooms to conduct negative PCR tests for COVID-19 as a component of premarital detection.
The debatable application has provoked combined reactions in Saudi Arabia, and some respondents considered it herbal to ensure the protection of the circle of family members and their children, especially since the check is widely accepted and facilitated in hospitals and clinics across the Kingdom.
Others saw the condition as arbitrary and an indication of a long-term negative married life and described the check as complicated and designed to show off, especially since there is no guarantee that a spouse will not inflate with a coronavirus through supporters at the wedding.night, despite the good luck of the check.
Wedad Saad, a Saudi wife, insisted before setting a date for her marriage for the groom to undergo a PCR test.He told Okaz: “I asked my circle of relatives to inform the groom about the pre-martial detection condition because of the fears and anxiety I had about this fatal illness.The party took position two days later, the incubation age of the virus is 14 days, so I fear it will inflate and transmit the disease to me.
Saad added that the epidemic that hit the world is ruthless, and has killed tens of thousands of people, adding a relative who flaunted a woman who visited him.
All those justifications led her to demand that the groom undergo the PCR test, she said.
Psychologist Doaa Zahran has criticized the use of some other people to show off, seeking to make a good impression on social media.
However, Zahran stresses that the risk of contagion can distort mental responses to interactions, leading to unforeseen behaviors.
“Rarely has the risk of disease been so thought-by.For months, almost every newspaper has been with articles about the coronavirus pandemic on its front page; radio and television programmes have a follow-up policy of the latest mortality figures; and social media platforms.”are full of terrifying statistics, practical recommendations or black humor,” he said.
She argued that this constant bombardment has led to increased anxiety, with immediate effects on our intellectual health. “But the constant sense of risk can have other, more insidious effects on our psychology. Due to some deeply evolved responses to illness, fears of Contagion lead us to be more conformist and tribalist, and less to settle for eccentricity. Our judgments Ethics become harsher and our social attitudes more conservative when we have issues like freedom and equality.Daily reminders of illness can even influence our perspectives and affiliations.
Zahran added that with confinement, many other people were quarantined and isolated, and their lives stopped, their fear will have to be respected, which has led to adjustments to social events and the holding of virtual parties.
He stated that requiring a negative PCR test is psychological and social and unacceptable, and advises a spouse who has contracted the infection to postpone the marriage to make the partner safe.
“The question here is: if the marriage is over and the marriage ceremony, a spouse who is afraid of getting the infection, has been infected, does the other spouse have the right to revoke the marriage contract?”Zahran said.
Zahran added: “There is fine hair between candor and rudeness, you can unknowingly offend the other or those around you.Put yourself in the other person’s shoes. If you settle for them, you settle for their reaction.”
Unlike others, Dr. Nizar Bahbari, representative in internal medicine and infectious diseases, believes that there is no justification for the bride to request that the groom take the PCR test, and if she ordered it before the wedding, what is the guarantee.That your husband won’t make you lose your health after the wedding?
Bahbari said: “I see no justification for all this anxiety and phobia of the virus, as it has become a risk to the stability of families and one of the preconditions for marriage, fitting in a point of discord between couples, throughout their lives.husband, of course, will not be the strange condition.
Dr. Shaden Wafa, Master in Public Health, supports the concept of PCR in prenumptive screening and says there is no harm in this.
She asks what happens to generating a negative PCR check before the marriage contract to ensure the partner’s suitability.
“In the event that a wife has the virus after marriage, the resulting disorders and seizures outweigh the severity of COVID-19 itself.”
Dr. Nour Al Jarba is surprised by the COVID-19 test requirement, as it is not a genetic disease that can affect married couples and their children in the long term.
“COVID-19 requires no remedy for years and is not difficult to cure, unlike AIDS, for example, and is not a chronic disease that causes long-term damage to one of the organs such as the hepatitis C virus, which requires lifelong follow-up.It’s just a contagious virus, and newlyweds can isolate themselves for 14 days in the stages of commitment and marriage,” Dr. Al Jarba said.
El Dr. Al Jarba wonders whether any of the couples have the possibility to impose this condition.
Sheikh Adel Al Kalbani affirmed the right of any of the partners to stipulate that a negative PCR be included in prenuptial screening, which is a normal condition and there is no objection to adding new diseases to screening.
What is prenenptial screening?
Prenuptial screening is explained as a check in which couples who are getting married are screened for genetic, infectious and bloodborne diseases to prevent any threat of disease transmission to their children.
Today, prenenptial tests are a major problem, due to the increase in the number of young people with genetic or blood-related diseases.
Importance of prenitly screening
Hereditary diseases, drepanocytosis and, to a lesser extent, thalassemia, have a maximum prevalence in the Gulf region and cause wonderful suffering.
Prenenitial has become mandatory through the maximum GCC and other Arab countries.
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