Medical tourism is the process of traveling to a different country for medical, dental or surgical treatment.
Medical tourism means to combine medical care with a holiday, that allows you to explore the culture and beauty of another country, whilst you address your medical needs.
There are many reasons to go abroad for treatment: lower costs, avoiding long waiting lists, unavailable procedure in your country, higher accessibility and comfort.
Firstly, Romania is a EU country, that has been widely promovated by King Charles, who consider Transilvania (a part of Romania) to be his second home.
Secondly, Romania is a country rated among the cheapest destinations in Europe, so it is perfect for budget travellers and those wanting to make the most of their time away.
Thirdly, Romania has a very well developed private medical system, which can compete with prestigious international medical centers. Romania is becoming a popular destination for medical tourism in Europe, because the heavy investments in private healthcare sector and the variety of healthcare services offered.
The Romanian healthcare hubs provide medical, dental or surgical treatment at international standards and at lower costs compared with other European contries. Romania appears in some recent statistics as one of the top 10 destination in the world for dental treatment.
Bucharest is one of the best location to chose but there are other Romanian cities that offer top quality healthcare diagnostic and treatment facilities, such as Cluj, Targu Mures and Brasov.
Our company has created UK-Romania MediLink, a service for people willing to access healthcare services in Romania, whilst having a holiday in the beautiful Romania.
We have developed this service for everyone who can not receive the healthcare needed in an acceptable timeframe in their own country, in the form of dental care, clarification of medical diagnosis, medical or surgical treatment. Our Consultant will make the link with Romanian private hospitals, decreasing the language barriers and making Romanian experience invaluable.
We have information and easy access to top private hospitals in Romania and we can schedule your medical appointments as per your needs, in a short time scale. Our selection of hospitals is based on our knowledge regarding hospital reputation, up-to-date medical infrastructure, skills and quality of medical staff and patient satisfaction with the service.
All logistics regarding finding the right medical centre, right location and right doctor for your specific dental or medical needs can be arranged by us, scheduling your appointments and offering you “a week package”. Although “a week package” will meet most of the patients needs, in some particular cases who involve majour dental work or rehabilitation services, the time for treatment in Romania may be longer than that.
We can work out in advance how many days you need to stay in Romania to complete your treatment.
The logistics regarding travel (airfare, accomodation, local transport) are arranged through our travel agency, when you buy our premium service. Flying after majour surgery is not allowed immediately after certain types of surgical procedures but you can purchase the service called repatriation by road ambulance, offered by our company, in case that you can’t fly for longer period of time.
If you need support in your medical journey, please send us a request at office@ambulanceinternational.co.uk
The BASIC service is a virtual medical consultation, that aim to identify your medical needs and to guide you in chosing the right hospital and right place for your treatment.
In the basic service, we send you by email a medical questionnaire. Your responses are analysed by our Consultant, who will send you a personalised response, by email. After first initial response, if you have further questions you can send us another email or give us a call. Our Consultant will provide you specific medical recommendations based on your needs as well as the details of the best hospital in Romania, that can address your needs. The medical recommendations will be in the form of what specific blood tests or investigations you might need to consider for diagnosis purposes or before a surgical intervention, risks associated with specific procedures, type of interventions available for your disease and information about a safety travel.
In the basic service, we are not doing arrangements for your trip or medical appointments, which will be your responsibility. You don’t have to give us personal identifiable data (name, address, date of birth), if your request is only for basic service.
The fee for basic service is £150, that need to be paid in advance through our website.
The PREMIUM service is a booking process for medical appointments and trip, that can significantly simplify your medical journey in Romania.
This service includes booking for your medical services, without your doing multiple international phone calls or losing your time to schedule your appointments close to each other and to match them with your travel arrangements.
We can provide you an estimation of your medical costs, if we know the hospital and type of treatment needed. Booking for medical appointments includes following appointments: regular blood tests, ultrasound, CT or MRI scans, specific neurologic investigations (EMG, EEG, Doppler carotide or CTA, MRA), specific cardiologic investigations (ECG, stress ECG, Holter ECG, Cardiac MRI), specific gastroenterology investigations (gastroendoscopy, colonoscopy), specific allergy tests as well as appointments with specific Consultants. The dental care plan will be set up after initial consultation with a dentist, but we will discuss with your dentist before your trip what type of dental work you need. If a surgical treatment is needed, this will be planned after a pre-surgery check.
This service includes refering you to our travel agency, which can give you travel advise and helps you to book your holiday in Romania. Our travel agency will provide you options for airfare, local accommodation and transportation and will help you to match the travel time with your medical appointments.
The fee for premium service is £150. If you need to identify the hospital as well as let us to do your all bookings, you need to buy both of our services: basic and premium. If you know the exact location and hospital in Romania for your treatment, you can buy only the premium service.
After assessments through any private hospital in Romania, you are entitle to have a copy of the results of your investigations as well as the discharge letters of the specialists who assessed you. If you need a translation of your medical documents, we can organise this for you, with the cost of translation supported by yourself.
If you have chronic symptoms and don’t have a clear diagnosis, we can schedule your appointments for a holistic checkup and tailor investigations around your symptoms and signs.
During your appointment for blood tests, you can have a large variety of tests, which will increase your chance for diagnostic clarification. You can have any of the following blood tests: hematological tests, immunological tests, fertility and hormonal tests, tumoral markers and specific tests for infections (parasitic, bacterial, viral or fungal infections).
We can schedule your appointments for medical imaging, such as ultrasound scan (abdominal, vascular, tyroid), mamography, CT scan or MRI scan of all body regions.
We can schedule your specific cardiology appointments for ECG, stress ECG, echocardiography, cardiac MRI and your appointment with a Cardiology Consultant.
We can schedule your appointments for any of the following endoscopies: gastroendoscopy, colonoscopy, nasal or laringeal endoscopy, colposcopy, cystoscopy and your appointment with any specialist you need: Gastroenterologist, ENT, Urologist or Gynecology Consultant.
We can plan your dental work in Romania. The dental treatment will fall in the following categories: 1) preventive and cosmetic dental care (professional teeth cleaning, whitening, checkups, Xrays); 2) basic restorative care (dental filling and root canal); 3) majour restaurative care (implants, bridges, crowns, dentures, oral surgery procedures); 4) orthodontic treatment.
We can schedule your rehabilitation treatment in Romania, if you have orthopedic or neurological conditions. To have noticeable results, you might needs to book at least two weeks for your rehabilitation program.
In dermatology field, we can schedule a diagnostic appointment, in order to identify the type of skin lesions you might have (dermatoscopy, skin biopsy, tests for allergic reactions, tests for specific infections) as well as an appointment for treatment (cryotherapy, electrocautery, surgical excision, drainage of cysts or abscess, nail treatments).
For abdominal surgical treatment, you will need to have an assessment from a General Surgical Consultant together with a pre-surgical check-up, before any direct appointment for surgical procedure. We can set up your appointments for surgery as a “one week package” for following diseases: anal pathology (abscess, fistula, haemmorhoids, anal prolaps), billiary patology (laparoscopic or clasic gallbladder resection) and abdominal hernias and eventrations.
We can set up your appointments for urology or gynecology and plan your specific treatment: endoscopic treatment of bladder or renal calculi, transuretral prostate resection, cervical polip excision.
If you are not receiving planned surgery for hip or knee inside NHS in an acceptable timeframe, we can schedule in Romania your orthopedic treatment, that will be done promptly and to a lower cost than in UK or other European countries.
At this moment, we are not arranging plastic surgery for cosmetic purposes but we can arrange appointments with a plastic surgeon for a specific medical problem (eg tunel carpal syndrom surgery).
We don’t arrange you to have an unapproved surgical procedure, experimental treatment or to participate into a clinical trial in Romania.
