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Dr Sneh Khemka, Bupa International’s Medical Director, tells you what to look out for if you need hospitalisation overseas.

Being admitted to hospital

1. Choose the best option

If you’re being admitted as an emergency or taken by ambulance, you often won’t have much choice in where you go.  However, if you can exercise choice, it’s important to select the best hospital for you – does it have the right services (eg a CT scanner), is it clean, can the staff speak your language etc?

2. Let your insurer know

Once there, you should let your insurer know you have been admitted as soon as possible so you can ensure you are covered for all treatments that you receive.  If you can let them know before you attend, they may even be able to point you to the best facility in town.

3. Ask questions

Don’t be afraid to ask questions that may seem difficult – it is important that you know what is happening to you, and instead of being offended, medical staff have a duty of care to ensure you are kept up to speed with what’s going on.

4. Provide the right information

You will be asked for your demographic details (age, sex, next of kin etc) and your medical history.  It is a good idea to carry with you a list of previous operations and treatments you may have had, along with a list of medications and allergies.

You will also be asked about how you are going to pay for treatment.  Without insurance, it can be frighteningly expensive, so you’re best to be covered and you can give them the contact details for your company who should then be able to settle your bills.

What to look out for?

5. Location is important

Hospitals do not have the same standards of care everywhere. Depending on which country you are in, and whether you are in a big city or the rural countryside, hospitals can differ greatly.  Many developed countries will have a government regulation committee that will inspect all hospitals to make sure there is a minimum standard of care.  However, in other areas it is completely unregulated.

Generally speaking, hospitals in developing countries have less regulation and lower standards than those in developed nations.  Sub-saharan Africa is notorious for its underfunded and understaffed institutions and parts of South America have poor legacies for the state of healthcare.  However, South East Asia and the Indian subcontinent have some of the best hospitals in the world.  It’s all a matter of choosing the right place.

6. Cleanliness is next to…

As a general rule of thumb, cleanliness is a good indicator of the level of safety in a hospital.  Word of mouth is also a good way of gauging a hospital’s reputation.  However, if you are insured with someone like Bupa International, you will more reliably be able to find out which are the good and bad places, as we have experience and check hospitals around the world for quality.

7. Consider benefits of private vs. public hospitals

Private hospitals are generally as good as public hospitals and in many places often better.  Private hospitals tend to have better funding and can therefore afford better equipment and facilities.

However, public hospitals may offer a range of services that private ones cannot, including intensive care units, emergency cardiac interventions and a wider range of staff for paramedical services such as physiotherapy and radiology.

What role does my insurer play?

8. Returning home is not necessarily the best option

It is not always the best option to medivac you home, Bupa International runs a full medivac servicec called WMA (Worldwide Medical Assistance).  WMA get calls from all over the world, and because we know the local services and hospitals, we can often find you excellent treatment without having to fly you back home, meaning you can carry on your trip after treatment.  We may need to send you to a nearby country, but if you need urgent attention, having you in an aeroplane for an extended period is not the best idea.

In determining whether or not to medivac a patient home, we look at all the medical details of the customer, what medical services they are likely to need, and the level of cover that they have purchased.  We also take into account the personal preferences of the customer, and often will pay for a family member to travel with them should there be the need.

Then we look at where will be the best place to send them so they can get the best and quickest access to the treatment they need.

9. Understand the hospital fees and charges

There is an emerging problem amongst certain hospitals that, if incentivised in the wrong way, they are more likely to intervene with a procedure or test which may not be entirely necessary.  This is the case with not only foreign visitors, but local patients as well.

We encourage our customers to let us know in advance of any planned treatment so we can talk through the options with both the patient and the doctor, and ensure that they are acting in a medically sound manner, and not just doing things for the sake of a few extra bucks.

For hospital out-patients, you will need to pay the bill when you are discharged and make a claim from your insurer later.  For more serious problems or hospital in-patient admissions, your insurer will liase with the hospital directly about the bill.

Avoiding hospital in the first place

10. Take your own first aid kit

An emergency medical kit always comes in handy, but what you can do with one is limited.  Kits should ideally contain basic painkillers, antiseptic, anti-diarrhoea and rehydration preparations, bandages and plasters.  Customs and prescription laws restrict the amount you can carry around with you.

For any worrying conditions, it is always best to seek expert medical advice – things can be picked up before they develop into major problems and sometimes you need a doctor to give you medications you cannot otherwise access.

If you take any medications, eg insulin, it is essential to keep an adequate supply, and to keep stores in two separate bags in case one is lost. Also, if you are anaphylactic, don’t forget to take adrenaline with you (and give your travelling companion instructions on how to use it).

11.  Use your common sense

The biggest single problem that the traveller will face is dehydration (from diarrheoa and vomiting).  Access to a plentiful supply of rehydration salts and clean drinking water is paramount.

And making sure you’re adequately insured so that not only will your bills be paid, but you’ll have a ‘friend’ that can help you through particularly troublesome times.

September 2008

The Danish businessman and entrepreneur Bjorn Stiedl, who now mainly lives in Paris, has initiated a new charitable organisation, Foundation Ours en Peluche, (“the Teddy Bear Trust”) to raise funding for a more comforting environment when young children are submitted to hospital.

It is the aim to raise enough funding to secure that all children will be receiving a teddy bear when submitted to a Parisian hospital.

Being admitted to a hospital is often a scaring and intimidating experience, especially for a child. Although parents and staff alike do their best to alleviate the children’s anxieties as well as their ailments, they can’t be around them 24/7. And it is often during the small hours of the morning that the children feel most scared and insecure.

Studies have shown that teddy bears have a positive effect on children who are admitted to a hospital. The teddy bear gives the children something safe and secure, and also a “companion” who can support and comfort them on their own level. Furthermore, health workers can explain the child’s illness through the teddy bear. This also alleviated the children’s anxieties.

Therefore giving the children a teddy bear when they are admitted to the hospital for long-term treatment is a very simple and humane way to improve the children’s experience when being in the hospital.

It is Mr. Stiedl’s hope that all formalities can be finalised by January 2009 so that negotiations for delivery of teddy bears with individual hospitals in Paris can commence.

“Hospitals are big and bureaucratic organisations, and implementing new routines and procedures take time”, Mr. Stiedl says “Issues regarding safety and health such as fire proofing, hygiene, etc. is of course also issues that has to be dealt with”

Bjorn Stiedl continues; “When we have an overview of the level of interest among the various clinics and hospitals, and when we approximately know how many teddy bears we have to hand out on a yearly basis, we will commence the fundraising.”

Bjorn Stiedl has already developed a model for the funding. “I will arrange for successful restaurants to add 1 Euro per bill they hand out during lunch and dinner service. It is entirely voluntary for the restaurant guest if he wants to pay the 1 Euro teddy bear donation. If the restaurant guest doesn’t want to pay, fair enough, 1 Euro will immediately be deducted from the bill, but I’m convinced that this will be a very small minority”.

As soon as all formalities are in place, staff will be engaged to engage participating Parisian restaurants.

Volunteering in Vietnam is quite a thrilling experience! A thriving and bustling East Asian Country, Vietnam has been a favorite of tourists and adventure seekers since many years. The main reason for the attraction of Vietnam is its sublime beauty and natural setting of the Red River Delta in the north and the beautiful Mekong Delta in the south. The coastal line is a beautiful patchwork of bright green paddy fields that are tended by farmers in conical straw hats. Vietnam is as famous for its rice and paddy fields as it is for its majestic beaches. However, despite being a small country, Vietnam is bless by Mother Nature and has a diverse geographical terrain that includes inland mountains often shrouded in mystery by dense and misty forests, wonderful varieties of flora and fauna, and ancient architecture and history. The south of Vietnam is the economic engine of the country and is centered on the capital city: Ho Chi Minh. The city of Dalat, also an ex-French retreat is the largest city in the Central Highlands. It has a great green golf course with the backdrop of the tallest mountain adding to its allure! Volunteering in Vietnam can offer you all of this and much more
Why Volunteer In Vietnam

While Vietnam is a growing industrial power, it is also a country where poverty seems to be looming large and casting a shadow on the country’s economy. A poor country ravaged by a long lasting war, Vietnam is slowly rebuilding itself. As a volunteer in Vietnam, you can help many underprivileged children, poor farmers, and women to find their rightful place in the society. Volunteering in Vietnam involves working with orphans, underdeveloped children, teaching English to the children and the locals, serving the community, volunteer or intern in a medical facility or hospital among other projects. Some of the other interesting volunteer in Vietnam
Types Of Projects Available

If you’re interested in volunteering in Vietnam, you’ll find an almost limitless inventory of volunteer opportunities. Whether you enjoy working with children, women, animals, or want to gain valuable work experience, building homes, or teaching English, you can most certainly find volunteer Vietnam projects available to suit your personal needs.
- Community Development in Vietnam: A broad area, it covers many different issues. But large chunks of such projects involve working with children and adults. Community development includes working at orphanages, old age homes, education institutions, among other things. You need to have patience, a warm and friendly disposition, and high levels of tolerance and compassion. Perfect for those who love interacting with people.
- Teaching in Vietnam: Focused solely on education, Volunteering in Vietnam for teaching typically involves teaching English. However, a few projects also include learning creative skills such as drama, music, crafts etc.
- Building Homes in Vietnam: As a volunteer in Vietnam for building homes/buildings project, you get the opportunity to leave a lasting mark as a reminder. You can help build homes or educational set ups for underprivileged families and orphans. Such kind of volunteer Vietnam projects help you build relationships at the personal level with the local residents. If you have building knowledge that a huge plus!
- Conservation in Vietnam: Conversation work is a broad term applicable to environmental conservation as well as architecture and natural heritage conservation. While most volunteering in Vietnam conservation projects include animal conservation such as animal rehabilitation centers, or reserves, you can also work with specific spices of animals such as lions, sea turtles, manatees, dolphins, monkeys or pandas. Love for animals is necessary!
- Health in Vietnam: If you are a medical intern or have completed some certification course in health then volunteering in Vietnam as a health worker is the best experience. You get to work in clinics that are set up in very poor neighborhoods with limited resources. This gives you the opportunity to assist the locals in variety of ways.
Volunteer Requirements

The two main volunteer Vietnam requirements besides the standard set of requirements include:
1. You must be 18 or over 18 years of age

2. Should be free from all health problems
Fee and Other details

There are fees attached for every volunteering project you opt for. The fee is charged in advance and is applied for food, accommodation, comprehensive travel insurance, in country travel, fund raising ideas etc. The project coordinator is responsible for most of your needs as a volunteer in Vietnam.
Conclusion

Volunteer in Vietnam and explore the mystic and majestic bounties of this tiny East Asian Country!

One cause of memory loss is from sleep deprivation, with the lifestyle which many of us lead it is critical to the development of memory and the enhancing of our ability to memorize things. Consider this, have you ever gone to school or work in your house shoes because you were too sleepy to remember to change shoes? Have you locked yourself out of your home because you were still groggy from lack of restful sleep only to remember (too late) that your house and car keys were still lying on the kitchen table? Have you put your sunglasses atop your head, then searched frantically for them because you forgot? These are prime examples of memory loss and why it is critical to always be paying attention to the development of memory.
Sometimes memory loss can be funny. It is sure to give you a few silly stories that produce giggles. Undoubtedly, memory loss will serve to uncover forgotten tales of another person’s experiences. Even little children can recall instances of memory loss resulting from lack of sleep.
Memory loss and the lack of the ability to memorize things can also be dangerous. Sometimes it will prove lethal, sometimes just unfortunate. The sleep deprived will suffer memory loss as though in a brain fog, walking around in a daze, unable to focus, sometimes with a blank expression. Observe a class of teenagers or college students after a popular festive weekend. There is sure to be someone in the crowd with a blank stare or head hanging from exhaustion, possibly with their mouth open as they ‘zone out’.
Worse cases of memory loss from sleep deprivation would be to forget medication you’d already taken, taking it again and suffering severe side effects, possibly becoming hospitalized as a result. If you became too sleepy to remember to turn off a burner on a stove, it could cause a house fire, possibly injuring some child you left home alone or an elderly person in your care. Maybe you’re a young mother and weren’t prepared to expect the sleep disturbances of a newborn and so have not been paying attention to the development of memory. If you forget to change your baby’s diaper, a horrible diaper rash could result, causing pain and rawness that might take several days to heal. If you get behind the wheel of your car while sleepy, you might forget to look both ways or forget momentarily which pedal is the gas or the brake and cause an accident.
Sometimes medications can cause sleep disturbances, which result in memory loss and the lack of our ability to memorize things, or the medication itself may make it harder to concentrate because of its effects. If you suffer memory loss on your job, you could cause an injury to a co-worker or possibly lose your job simply because of something vital you forgot, such as an important meeting you needed to have prepared for.
Memory loss and the lack of our natural ability to memorize things is caused by other things besides sleep deprivation, of course. But the most important thing is to find ways to remedy the problem. Take advantage of a short nap whenever possible. Learn to relax before its time for bed, instead of waiting on bedtime to begin relaxing as this aids in the development of memory. For the chronic work-a-holic, the new parents, or a college student burning the candle at both ends, learning to get the proper amount of sleep is essential to avoiding unfortunate events caused by sleep-deprived memory loss. Remember, if you don’t care for your body and mind, it can’t continue to function properly.