Advantages of Checkup Abroad

Nowadays, the major task of medicine is not the treatment of illnesses, but their timely detection and prevention. Accurate and timely diagnosis makes it possible to prevent the development of most illnesses.  This is the reason the World Health Organization (WHO) considers regular programmes, both complex and specialised, the most effective method of human health protection.

Diagnostics has long become one of the most popular services in medical tourism. Tens of thousands people travel abroad annually to undergo a thorough check-up of the whole organism or particular organs and systems.  Therefore, many medical establishments, primarily from the countries of Western Europe, as well as from the USA, Israel, and Turkey, which provide services for foreign patients, have made diagnostics one of their priority directions of their medical activities.

In order to facilitate high-quality and speedy health check-ups, medical establishments are equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment and use the most advanced technologies. Some types of equipment may not even be available in the potential patient’s country of permanent residence.

Executive health check-up programmes for foreign patients are usually arranged in such a way as to lessen the time of patient’s presence in a given medical establishment, with examination and test results obtained in the shortest time possible. A patient may receive his or her check-up results within a few days and receive consultation from a diagnostician or appropriate medical specialists without delay.

Specifically for overseas patients, a number of various examination programmes have been developed, each with its own advantages and pricing. After a complex (general) examination, patients are offered an opportunity to continue the diagnostics within the scope of a supplementary programme, or to focus upon a  particular organ.  For instance, the programme of specialised oncological check-ups in the clinics of Western Europe most often includes:

The programme  takes 3 to 5 days and costs a few thousand Euros (2 to 4.5 thousand). This may seem expensive to some, but it is precisely diagnostics where being penny-wise equals being pound-foolish, as treatment and rehabilitation following onset of illness cost a patient considerably more.

Health check-up away from work and household enables patients to change the environment and concentrate exclusively on their own health. Diagnostic procedures are carried out in a stress-free setting, with strict observance of protocols and recommendations of physicians. During examination, the medical establishments provide, along with personalised medical service, comfortable accommodation and due care.

Physicians advise patients in the risk group (those working under stressful and harmful conditions, living in an unfavourable climate, with hereditary illnesses, or patients who have experienced oncological and other illnesses, surgical procedures, etc.), as well as those aged 40 and over,to undergo health check-ups no less frequently than once a year.

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