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Medical Services / Home Visit
In Hungary the health-care system is somewhat remote
from the other countries’. The majority of Hungarian
hospitals do not have clinical wards for all medical specialties, even
today. Hospitals do not have emergency wards, neither reception facility.
Establishing
Our English speaking doctor visits you at home When our patient calls our Alarmcentre and requires a medical visit, our doctor-in-duty is immediately alarmed. He visits the patient at his/her home, or in the hotel-room. Each SOS doctor speaks minimum two foreign languages, so there is no language-barrier. The doctor makes a diagnosis and begins the therapy. The doctor brings some medicines with him, so the initial doses of medicines usually are at hand. If the patient needs hospitalisation or specialist, our doctor will arrange it.
Meanwhile the Alarmcentre’s operator keeps contact with the Insurance Company of the patient. If the insurance covers the visit fee, SOS accepts the
company’s guarantee-of-payment. |
an initial diagnosis, which would facilitate the choice of a
hospital with a suitable clinical ward, remained the everyday task of
our doctors. Moreover, in the case of emergency treatment (as a trauma) the hospitals
are in rotating duty system in Budapest. That’s why - besides the language
barrier - there is no means to go directly to the hospital - the patient
has to find an English-speaking doctor there, and it might be suggested
that he go
to another facility. Therefore the patients do better to call up
Our
doctors are familiar with the actual hospitals-in-duty, and refer the
patient to the most appropriate hospital available. If an ambulance
transport is necessary, the SOS ambulances are available. Performing
a „rendezvous” system, SOS ambulance’s crew and SOS doctor meet at
the patient’s bedside and take him/her to the hospital. Our doctor will
manage the admission procedure as well.