Medical Tourism Guidelines outside
Uganda
Medical tourism in Uganda is moving on an upward scale and
is dominated by private health provider referrals. Patients and their
attendants should be aware about the important medical guidelines so that the
requirement and interest of the people looking for health care outside Uganda
is met. Uganda National Association of Private Hospitals (UNAPH) is devising frameworks
consisting of medical ethics and legal guidelines to guide medical tourism.
Patients and their attendants must be well-aware of all the legal rules, and medical
issues that are involved. UNAPH advises that health providers, patients,
sponsors, facilitators, insurance companies, and other entities that facilitate
medical care outside Uganda adhere to the following principles:
- Ensure that the hospital you
are visiting is licensed. Patients should only be referred for medical care
to institutions that have been accredited by recognized credible
accrediting bodies.
2.
Financial
incentives to travel outside Uganda for medical care should not inappropriately
limit the diagnostic and therapeutic alternatives that are offered to patients,
or restrict treatment or referral options.
- Patient should be well aware about the treatment and
procedure that s/he is seeking so that his/her expectations from the
surgery are realistic. He or she must also have knowledge about physical
therapy, period of recovery, and post-surgery care.
- Try to gather all the important details about the
doctors at the hospital before you select them. Look up for their
qualifications, credential and achievements. This can be done by your
local referring doctor or your local medical tourism facilitator.
5.
Prior
to travel, local follow-up care should be coordinated and financing should be
arranged to ensure continuity of care when patients return from medical care
outside Uganda.
6.
Coverage
for travel outside Uganda for medical care must include the costs of necessary
follow-up care upon return.
7.
Patients
should be informed of their rights and legal recourse prior to agreeing to
travel outside Uganda for medical care.
8.
Access
to physician licensing and outcome data, as well as facility accreditation and
outcomes data, should be arranged for patients seeking medical care outside
Uganda.
9.
The
transfer of patient medical records to and from facilities outside Uganda
should be consistent with national health insurance guidelines and medical
councils’ guidelines.
10. Patients choosing
to travel outside Uganda for medical care should be provided with information
about the potential risks of combining surgical procedures with long flights
and vacation activities.
11.
Patients
choosing to travel outside Uganda for medical care should be provided with all
information on all the available options of local health providers in Uganda.
- Meet your doctor before the procedures start. Before
anything, thorough personal examination and tests of the patients are done
by most of the hospitals, before performing any medical process. There is
also a possibility that the doctor might not consider you fit for the
treatment and might also suggest another treatment after the diagnosis.
- Make a file or a folder of all the necessary documents
along with their photocopy. Keep the originals at a safe place. Make
another file of all the medical reports, and health records such as health
history, X-rays, photograph, scans, MRI’s immunization records, etc., that
are related to the medical process.
Uganda National Association of Private
Hospitals (UNAPH)
P.O.Box 29324 Kampala, Uganda.
Tel: 0414 692626, 0704 762575
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