Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

Medical Evacuation Service

Country forums / South-East Asia Mainland / Laos

CAn anyone reccomend one of these services(hopefully that you didn't use)?

Thanks

What country do you reside in?

I use WorldMed, a AIG company, for Americans....

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Here in Vietnam, it is SOS.

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You posted on the Laos branch so I’ll answer as such.

I’ve always assumed that insurance and all the other trappings of the modern world would have no affect until I hit Thailand and I planned accordingly. I figure by the time they bring my butt to a hospital in a town big enough to land planes, and make the arrangements to fly me out of there, I’m probably well already. I’ve never seen a hospital in country that takes a Visa card for instance.

I called the local helicopter company and left their details with someone. They are $1500 an hour and probably go about 150 knots (visa accepted). The hospital in Udonthani Thailand is allowed ambulances across the friendship bridge at any hour. I don’t use evac insurance as I live in a country that has the worst healthcare of all the modern industrialized nations, prefer Thailand.

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