Frequently Asked Questions
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1What is health tourism?
Medical tourism or health tourism is the travel to a foreign country with the purpose of getting medical&health treatment. Medical tourism is recently favorable to take the advantage of a cost reductions of particular countries like Turkey.
2Why Turkey is popular about health tourism?
Turkey is the second country in the world with the number of JCI accredited hospitals. Turkey is recognised as a competetive and high techonology healthcare destination providing service thousands of patients from Europe, Middle East and neighboring countries. High technology &modern hospitals, natural resources, skilled manpower, specialists in the field provides a unique service model in the healthcare industry. Turkey’s geographic location as being the brigde connecting Europe and Asia allows easy access and short flying times from all over the world. The cultural atmosphere in metropolitan Turkish cities provides a friendly, hospitable and safe travel for patients.
3What kind of treatments health tourists mostly having in Turkey?
Eye Diseases, Dental Health, Cardiology, Plastic Surgery, Oncology and Neurology consists of %80 of all the branches which health tourists obtaining medical operations in Turkey.
4Why should I contact to a health travel agency instead of hospital?
There is no obligatory to prefer a health travel agency. You can easily contact an international hospital to plan your appointments and book all your necessary arrangements on your own. Many people do this. However if you rely on a health travel agency, they will take care all of your needs including treatment, accomodation, safety etc..Altough health tourism is so popular in all hospitals, for a non-citizen patient it might not be as easy as it sounds to choose the best hospital. Well known heath travel agencies have direct connections with all hospitals and has a better understanding of how the procedures go on during all this time. Equally important, a hospital won’t care about you during your alone staying after the discharge.
5Why you should work with Estegloria?
Our management executives have a deep knowledge and experience on healthcare sector. We offer you prestigious and comfortable service with affordable price. All you need to do is to get in touch and tell us your inquiry, we will take care all of the arrangements.
As the health tourism is so popular, every day a new organization come to life all over the world. Unfortunately some of these organizations might not have enough know-how in this field, for that reason we recommend you to trust only experts and not to fall for cheapest prices you will see particularly in hair transpalantation and plastic surgery operations.
6How it starts?
In fact your journey starts at the time of your call to us. Depends to your inquiry, we will be requesting related clinical reports & details from you which will be shared by our expert doctors. Upon the examination, we will be enabling you with a schedule and aproximate cost of your treatment. We appreciate your considering for +/- 10 to 15% variation until you arrive and meet with our doctors.
7How you decide to the hospital or doctor for me?
All the hospitals we work are JCI accredited and serving in EU standards. For each branch, we choose the best hospital/clinic and expert. The commercial fame of the hospital is not important for us, we only prefer the ones which has a good references to guaranty you satisfaction. We guaranty you to satisfy with hygiene, modernity and use of techonology in the hospitals/clinics we choose for you!
8How to overcome language barrier?
Our team speaks fluent English. If you don’t speak english, according your native language, a language interpreter can be arranged for you. We have interpreters for each language.
9How long should I wait to take the operation?
There is no waiting period. Once you send us your inquiry, we will share it with our experts. We work with many partners and we will arrange the operation date&time before you arrive.
10Will I be alone during my staying? Who will take care of me right after the operation?
Your staying in the hospital will be determined by the doctor. During your time in hospital, multi language attendants will be looking after you. At the time of discharge and after that, our team will be accompanying you.
11How can I be certain that a Health Tourism is totally safe?
It's important to understand that noone can guaranty a perfect success rate for all procedures. Medical complications, errors, and negligence are common to all healthcare systems in all countries.There is always a risk involved. Our service providers are the best and well known experts in Turkey who reduce the risk into a minimum level. All the treatment facilities have the highest technology and well trained stuff. We invite you to visit our Medical Tourism Forums where you can ask questions and share experiences with our other patients.
12What if I don’t find the procedure that I am interested in on your operations list?
If you are interested or need a procedure which is not listed on our website, please contacts us and we will be replying you doing necessary search. We have a wide network in healthcare industry.