FirstMed fills a gap in a guaranteed market
Everyone needs healthcare, and the growing international community in Europe demands medical care up to its high standards.
Addressing Treatment challenges faced by international residents and Visitors
Language
- Visitors, even long-term ones, can feel linguistically inadequate.
- This is particularly acute when dealing with medical matters, which require precise communication.
Insurance
- Most national and local private health services do not accept international private insurance policies.
- Even when they do, linguistic and procedural mismatches can lead to long delays.
Paperwork
- National health services are designed for local citizens, not visitors.
- Even if a visitor or expat can access the health service, the processes and procedures are often labyrinthine, and in a different language.
Quality
- State-funded medical care differs from country to country.
- In some cases, the quality of care is lacking due to underfunding, institutional degradation, and ‘brain drain’ of staff.
Waiting time
- Under state healthcare, waiting time for diagnostics and non-emergency procedures and diagnostics can often be prohibitive.
- In some jurisdictions, wait times for simple treatment can be months or even years.
Who do we help?
Tourists
Expats
Long term
foreign residents
