FAQs

Medical Linkers easily helps you easily get in touch with the best doctors anywhere in the world. All you need to do is to send an e-mail to Medical Linkers with all the details of your symptoms, while also attaching your reports if any. Our panel of doctors will analyze your reports and offer their opinion about the best possible treatment program and where you can go for the same (based on your budget).

When you are planning to get surgery or any kind of medical treatment outside your own country, you and your family need to consider the following factors: • Medical fees and other fees related to treatment • Itinerary, scheduled tests, and medical procedures including visits before and after surgery • The length of your proposed stay in the country depending on factors such as itinerary and visits to doctors post the surgery • Costs and logistics involved in the entire operation, right from airfare, hotel accommodations, transportation, food, and additional medical costs.

Medical tourism is when people travel to a country other than their own for the purpose of medical treatment. Earlier, the term referred to people coming from less- developed countries where treatment was not available to medical centers and hospitals in highly developed countries. In recent times, it also refers to people coming in from developed countries to developing countries for medical treatments that are priced lower. Health tourism, on the other hand, is a wider travel term focusing on medical treatments as well as employing various healthcare services and covering a wider field of health-oriented tourism ranging from rehabilitation-based and curative forms of travel to health-conductive and preventive treatment.

We can provide you with the most inexpensive medical treatment option because – 1. Our database is huge, current and comprises of doctors, specialists, and hospitals from all over the world with whom we have a personal long-standing association. 2. We can guide you to the right doctor/hospital to the nearest country where treatment is not as expensive as they are at home. Plus, you get to stay close to your home country. 3. We have serviced so many patients in and around the world that we can easily compare costs and suggest the best option that would comfortably suit your budget. For example, take a look at this cost comparison given below for some of the most popular medical procedures .

Primarily, the differences in costs are due to insurance and labor costs, and not due to lack of quality. In fact, a major chunk of healthcare costs in countries like the US and UK are tied to insurance and administrative costs such as labor costs.

The actual medical procedure isn’t the only cost that you’ll be spending on. There are a lot of other costs such as transportation, food, and logistics. As a general rule, the following Medical Tourism Savings Formula can be used to make a decision for medical travel to India or any other country.

In most cases, the Medical Linkers medical package includes the below. However, each case is different and there could be an updated quote sent to you in accordance with the treatment you seek and the care services that you require - • Pre-surgical consultations with the doctor • Transport within the country, including to and from the nearest major airport to the hospital. • Fees of the surgeon and the anesthetist for the operation. • The operation theatre charges and the cost of the surgical appliances required with regard to the medical procedure. • All and any nursing care and diagnostic costs during the in-patient stay at the hospital with regard to the medical procedure. • In-patient drugs and dressing. • Cost of the implants. • In-patient accommodation or room charges.

Typically, the following costs are excluded from the Medical Linkers package: • Drugs prescribed at the time of your discharge from the hospital after the operation or the medical procedure. • Treatment or service relating to any complications arising, which are not related to your surgical treatment, not included in the package. Also, you will be charged extra for in accordance with the hospital's standard charges. • Procedures or costs relating to major complications arising during your operation, which necessitates your transfer to an internal or external specialized ICU. Again, the additional costs charged to you will be in accordance with the standard charges of the hospital. • Any extension of stay in the hospital beyond the duration of hospitalization mentioned in the quote.

Our services are niche, personalized and are born out of empathy to help as many people as possible. Our database is drawn from our personal equation with hospitals, doctors and specialists; therefore, it is easy for us to fast track your treatment program without any waiting time.

No, the hospital charges the same amount. The benefit that you get when you go through us is that we at Medical Linkers help you with a lot of information that we have already researched and have at your disposal. Additionally, we provide complete support for your entire trip, including the pre-trip planning as well as destination support for free, as opposed to you doing your trip planning on your own when you go directly to an overseas hospital.

Medical Linkers will design for you a comprehensive healthcare package which will include your travel and accommodation anywhere in the world. You will be in the hospital until you can move about on your own post-surgery. Your hospital stay may vary depending upon the treatment that you undergo. While you’re in the hospital, the attendant will take good care of you, so you needn’t worry about your India stay at all.

This depends on the country where you will be seeking the treatment. If you’re seeking treatment in a country where English isn’t spoken widely or if English is not your native tongue, we can also arrange for you a translator if necessary.

This depends on the country where you are seeking treatment. We can arrange for a translator to accompany you just about anywhere.

Any medical treatment requires the support of a caregiver or a loved one. So, yes, we recommend that you do bring someone with you.

Your companion can travel with you. He/she will require to have a valid passport as well as a visa, depending on the person’s citizenship as well as the destination country’s rules and regulations regarding the visa. Generally, hospitals do allow one companion with you. If you wish to have more than companion with you, then there are different kinds of room options available, depending on your chosen hospital. Medical Linkers can help you and your companion with the entire process.

Yes, there exists a special medical visa that can be opted for depending on where you wish to travel. We can help you procure a medical visa for any country where you wish to get treated.

Yes, will need a valid passport & Visa.

Finding the right medical centre or hospital for your treatment isn’t enough – you also need to find comfortable accommodation for you and your companion to ensure complete comfort for yourself prior to your operation or medical procedure. This is where we, Medical Linkers, come to your assistance.

There is, without doubt, an inherent level of risk associated with every medical procedure that is performed, and such risks, unfortunately, cannot be guaranteed by anyone. Medical Linkers’ effort is to minimize the risks involved by working only with accredited and extremely reputed medical centers, hospitals, and certified medical professionals who are known to deliver a high quality of medical care. Also, the hospitals and medical centers we are associated with have great repute, with them having invested millions. They certainly would not like anything to have an adverse effect on their reputation, so they will take great care to make sure that you will be satisfied and that the results are successful.

Follow-up, if needed, can be done by a doctor of your liking in your home country. We suggest that any follow-up if needed, be arranged prior to your trip abroad.

You can fill our inquiry form and we will try to work out the best solution for you.

No, we don’t give any medical advice. However, we can assist and help you to choose the best choice of facilities available or find someone qualified to give you the right healthcare advice.

Medical_Linkers has the most dedicated team of doctors, medical content analyzers and Programmers who are constantly providing quality services to their clients. We have Medical experts(doctors mostly) as coordinators who understand the medical ethics and approach to each case with full responsibility.