Dive schools in Malta and Gozo ask for a medical before recreational training. It is an assessment rather than a formality: Dr Kevin Navarro Gera goes through your history and reaches a view on whether diving is safe for you.
What the assessment involves
Expect questions about asthma, epilepsy, heart and ear problems, diabetes, medication, surgery, and any difficulty you have had in the water before. Some histories can be assessed on screen; others need you examined in person, and the doctor will tell you which yours is.
Where the history shows a reason not to dive, nothing is issued and he explains why. That is the point of the assessment, and a dive school would rather hear it now than afterwards.
How a consultation works
- Open the app or the website and give your name and email once. There is no password to remember.
- Say in a line or two what is wrong. A photo often helps — a rash, a swelling, a test result.
- Call. Dr Kevin Navarro Gera answers within minutes when he is free; otherwise you wait in line and your phone rings at your turn.
- Anything he writes up afterwards reaches you in the app and by email, usually within minutes.
- The €25 is settled at Potter's Pharmacy when you collect. Nothing is taken from a card during the call.
Where to find us
Paceville Doctor, inside Potter's Pharmacy
39 Triq il-Wilga, St Julian's STJ 3112, Malta
+356 2136 3244
A few minutes from the Paceville square, and a short drive from Sliema, Swieqi and Gzira.
Opening hours
Video consultations
8am to midnight, every day, all year.
The pharmacy and clinic door
June to 31 October: 8am to midnight.
November to May: 8am to 8pm.
Sundays and public holidays follow the national pharmacy roster.
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