Does the parent have to provide a medical certificate to the school if their child is sick?

You must provide a medical certificate only if your child has an illness contagious.

These diseases are:

• Whooping cough
• Diphtheria
• Meningococcal meningitis
• Poliomyelitis
• Measles, mumps, rubella
• Group A haemolytic streptococcal infections
• Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
• Moths
• Respiratory tuberculosis
• Pediculosis (except in case of treatment)
• Amoebic or bacillary dysentery
• Scabies
• Epidemic influenza-like illness
• Hepatitis A
• Impetigo (and other pyodermatitis)
• Varicella.

If your child has a communicable disease, you must provide the medical certificate to the school from the moment you return to class of your child.