Re: [Goanet] Portuguese citizenship

[Gabriel de Figueiredo]

Hi George,
Hospitals and medical institutions request ethnic information because, I 
believe,  certain diseases like thalassemia, sickle cell disease and a few 
others, which the doctors on this forum will know, largely occur within certain 
ethnicities.  Not to say that other ethnicities are totally free of such 
diseases. 
Cheers, Gabriel.