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Universal tips for diabetics on travals |
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Being a patient in Norway:
If you are insured at a public health insurance company in Germany, you are entitled to basic health care in Denmark. If you should need medical treatment (that can not be put off until you return home) during a temporary stay (up to 90 days) you will be treated exactly as if you would be insured there. Although this also means that you have to pre finance all possible payments.
If in Norway charges originated from medical treatments, the local medical insurance authority decides if and in which amount charges will be refunded. You have to apply for refunds at the local health insurance scheme. A social security agreement exists between Germany and Norway. Yet patients with private health insurance have to organise an insurance cover for themselves. Order the European health insurance card at your health insurance scheme. It replaces the form E111 which was necessary in former times. It also eases the bureaucratic procedure. In addition it is useful to take out an additional foreign country health insurance (here you should ask directly if you will get insured when you are a diabetic).
Apart from country specific formalities there are of course general travel rules for diabetics that need to be thought over:
- Take a sufficient supply of insulin with you on your journey (about the double of the regular amount), which you distribute among your luggage to compensate for losses (losing a piece of your luggage or insulin getting spoiled).
- Protect your insulin from extreme heat or frost.
- Write down the name of your preferred preparation; with symbol and product code (the rectangular symbol and code are identical worldwide and thus can be put together safely).
- If necessary speak to your doctor before the journey. He can inform you more precisely about the upcoming changes (time lag, unfamiliar daily routine, different food,…).
- Take a medical certificate with you to prove that you need the devices that you took along for your treatment (customs). An international/multilingual diabetes identification card should be with you as well.
(c) Kathrin Kießling - source: www.diabetes.no www.norwegen.no
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