Maybe my story will not surprise anyone, and now, perhaps, many Russians also visited Switzerland and the Swiss resorts or in treatment centers, but still there is someone who was not in a Swiss clinic, or just going, so my story will be interesting. The story of how tourism operates health insurance when you’re abroad. How then, being in a beautiful Swiss town of Lucerne, which the Swiss called the most beautiful city in Switzerland, I felt myself quite badly, and decided to contact local doctors, the time – about 22.00 on Sunday.
Found in the directory address and telephone number of the Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne – something like a state hospital. Under the rules of insurance call first to Moscow. There is a clock service International SOS, which includes an insurance company with which I concluded the insurance contract. Operator picks up, tell her about his problems with his heart, before this happened, I immediately connects with the doctor, who listened to me, advised to go immediately to the nearest hospital.
Learn from my hotel address, where I stayed, address and telephone the hospital, said that an ambulance will cause themselves, while possibly ask for on a regular basis to call them or assign a group of tourists head – to inform about my condition. I tell them that the journey of one (very surprised), but I can ask to call the doctors, by the way, the operators say, and German and in English, which is nice pleasant.
Ambulance arrived 15 minutes later, go to the hospital for 10 minutes. All the local doctors, even doctors and ambulance (emergency) speak good English. Go make me ukolchiki give some pills – chest pain subsides immediately make a cardiogram, while questioned, tell where and how it hurts, and of heart problems in the past. Doctors Emergency incredibly polite, everything is very clean and tidy.
Arriving at the hospital, taking me on a gurney into the room like a resuscitation. There, doctors immediately stuck my wires with sensors, immediately head to monitor the data, if data is getting worse – the buzzer sounds for physicians. Do blood tests and a cardiogram – all in minutes. The room is very large, each lying there close in special blinds.
Suitable doctor – a young girl – “Hello”, while greeting me by the hand. “My name is Aftemauf, how? I ask again – Aftemauf? “Yes, Aftemauf. A strange name for a girl, I think, but who knows, Switzerland, after all. She has great form, she asks me if I have allergies to medicines, and so on.