Want to know more about medical tourism? Keith Pollard, Managing Director of health tourism website Treatment Abroad answers some common questions about the destinations, treatments and price savings in getting treatment abroad. Use the video clip menu below to select a question.
Make sure you know exactly who you are dealing with. There are many different types of operators in the field of medical tourism. You will come across medical tourism agencies, facilitators, doctors, dentists, hospitals and clinics all providing services for patience from overseas. We recommend that you ask for details of patients who have had similar treatments or operations to you.
Ask for phone numbers. Ring them up. Ask questions about the services they have received and how happy they are with the treatment. Ask as many questions as you can of the health care provider themselves. The biggest concern for many people who are thinking of medical tourism is “What happens when I come home?” The hospital, the clinic is miles away.
Well when you are doing your research find out what facilities and what support that Company offers in your home country. The other really important thing is to make sure that they communicate with your General Practitioner, Physician or Dentist and that a full report is written about your treatment and that as with treatment in your own country that report goes back to your local doctor.
