You should be knowledgeable to check your priorities for medical travel abroad upon inquiring a few medical tourism facilitators. Your priorities must closely match to the information of medical tourism providers.
Your surgery package begins with registering with the medical tourism provider. Knowing your priorities, the healthcare professionals give you cost estimate. Upon checking your financing options, the cost estimate and your health-medical tourism package will be conformed against the selected destination country and healthcare provider respectively. The type of surgery also is another major concern.
The destination country, the health provider and the surgeon is introduced to get familiarize along with your first consultation. Your medical tourism provider will arrange for video conferencing with your specialist abroad allowing you to express your health concerns, the recovery period, gaining self-confidence on the surgeon's ability and your treatment options. The specialist will review your medical records and will ask you to get yourself prepared by giving some prescriptions or precautions to follow.
You will be assigned a personnel care manager who will take care of your itinerary of the whole travel destinations including the tourist locations, paper work for travel, contacting with host country manager and are included, be assigned to you. Upon your departure from your home country, the host country manager will receive you and proceed to the hospital for registering at the hospital.
The host manager will give you all the necessary information about the local travel, important phone numbers and hand phone to keep in touch with your family abroad and arrange for your next consultation with your specialist. Your specialist examines your health condition; perform any diagnostic tests required for your surgery to know the disease maturity. You should be able to convey any other troubling health condition so that it is taken care and do not obstruct surgery's success. Your surgery dates and recovery periods are conformed to you.
Your post-surgery treatment will be detailed which has to be followed with strict adherence. Your discharge summary, medical records and relevant prescription for post-surgery treatment are transferred to your local physician in your home country. You can opt for telemedicine option in your home country as part of your post-surgery treatment.
Getting yourself prepared for the medical travel
You should know some important information before your travel. Your passport and visa validity should be in line with your tentative surgery dates and recovery period. Your itinerary should include additional few days in case of your recovery period extension. Your medical and insurance documents, if any, should be handy all the time. You should be able to furnish them when necessary.
It is important for the host manager to know about your dietary regimen. He should advice you about nearest ATMs, which accept MASTER or VISA credit cards to meet any emergency and local expenses. Planning in temperate weather conditions will allow your immunity to faster recovery and hence you should carry appropriate clothing.
Your host manager should also inform you about local culture, language spoken and make sure the medical tourism provider assist you in keeping a translator if there is any need. Planning for recreational activities should be on the advice of your specialist.
Zoumanan Debe
Debson Medical Tourism
[http://www.debsonmedicaltourism.com]
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