BE PREPARED
With good preparation travellers can easily put some of those worries to rest.
1. Must have adequate documentation concerning your health & contacts
2. Carry adequate health-insurance details before leaving home.
3. Know your consular contacts. Consular officials can also arrange for money to be wired to you from home; in extreme cases they can make emergency loans. But they won't take responsibility for medical bills. You can find consulate and embassy addresses and phone numbers in Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts (List ID-KOFS), available for $4.25 at government printing office bookstores or from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.
4. If for some reason you can't reach a consulate, you can call the State Department's Overseas Citizens' Emergency Center, (202) 632-5225 or 634-3600.
ENGLISH SPEAKING DOCTORS
1. A list of English-speaking physicians is available through the International Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers. Now in its 25th year, nonprofit IAMAT lists 3,000 screened physicians and hospitals in 140 countries. Each has agreed to treat IAMAT members for a flat fee of $20 per office visit. Membership is by donation: write to IAMAT, 736 Center St., Lewiston, New York 14092, or call (716) 754-4883 or email: www.iamat.org/doctors_clinics.cfm.
2. This is s very useful comprehensive list of hospitals in specific countries http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/738030.html |