Students can receive sick leave for upto two days after being evaluated by the Student Health Physician and deemed to be medically unwell. If sick leave for more days is required, student will be reevaluated after two days. Medical leaves will only be granted if there are objective signs to confirm the symptoms. 

Sick leaves will not be granted/verified if:

• Requested in retrospect
  

• Requested without student AKU ID card

• ​Medical certificates were raised by parents and siblings of the student 
  

• Requested right before or after a student misses an exam or a mandatory session, unless deemed genuine and essential by the Student Health Physician. 

A sick leave certificate issued at CHC by anyone other than the Student Health Physician will be accepted for one day only. Further days off for sickness will be issued by the Student Health Physician after re-assessment and every sick leave has to be countersigned by the Student Health Nurse. ​

It remains the student’s responsibility to inform their program coordinators and the Office of the Registrar on a timely basis about their sick leaves. If a student is observed to avail of sick leave on regular basis, the case will be reported to the Office of the Registrar. The Registrar Office will communicate the same to the students’ parents.​

Students requiring consultation after CHC timings should obtain a sick leave certificate from the Emergency Room at AKU, AKU Family Medicine off-campus clinics or from their local general practitioner. It should be validated by the Student Health Physician/ Nurse within the next 48 hours of their visit. No certificate will be validated after the prescribed time limit. To verify an ‘out of AKU’ medical certificate, students are required to first register themselves with the Student Health Physician on duty for an assessment.