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Medical Tourism Guidelines outside Uganda

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:
  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.


  1. 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.


  1. 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
Email: unaph22@yahoo.com, unaphserv@gmail.com
www.unaph.org
www.ugandaprivatehospitals.blogspot.com

Comments

  1. Selena Parker6 October 2021 at 03:18

    Thanks for sharing informative information with us. If want to know about Medical tourism facilitator so you can visit their.

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