Balance sheet 2018: ADAC ambulance Service helped almost 57,000 in diseased and injured travelers

10.4.2019 (ADAC Versicherung AG). The ADAC ambulance Service has helped in the year 2018, a total of 194 countries 56.935 sick and injured holiday makers, including 6055 children. Around 1600, the help of services more than in the previous year.

Most of the Insured were taken care of in Spain (6645), Austria (6473) and Turkey (6189). The assistance services in Turkey have increased with an increase of 19.6 percent compared to the previous year, while they remained in Italy (4508), Greece (2387), France (1873) and Croatia (1485) approximately at the level of the previous year. Outside of Europe, as of 2017, the United States (1517), and Egypt (1370) in the front. Behind Morocco with 405, Australia, 322 and Indonesia with 320 supervised Insured to follow.

For 12.522 ill or injured vacationers, the ADAC ambulance Service, ambulance transport back to a hospital in the home – that is 2.6 percent less than in the previous year. Most of the medical evacuations were organised for the Insured in North Rhine-Westphalia (3174), Bavaria (1880) and Baden-Württemberg (1702).

4338 Insured (-1.5 percent) were returned by plane either in a line or a ADAC ambulance machine. Depending on the type of machine a ADAC costs ambulance-a special flight of up to 45,000 euros, to intensive transport of another continent, even up to 130,000 Euro. The most expensive repatriation, which has been carried out to date what a special transport from Thailand, in which a mobile heart-lung machine was used. The costs for this case amounted to over 250,000 euros – to – doctor and hospital costs are not included.

The main reasons for the Repatriation via aircraft of the disease in about 60 percent of the cases of cardiovascular. 36.7 per cent go back to accidents, particularly in traffic and sports accidents.

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Without adequate insurance, a medical emergency abroad can be very expensive, because a delivery was in a hospital in Germany is generally not covered by the Fund. Therefore, Service recommend in addition to the ADAC ambulance of the Foreign office and the statutory health insurance funds, with a private international health insurance plan. There is the ADAC Versicherung AG as of 12.80 Euro in the year.

Thus, in the case of an emergency can be responded to, the ADAC ambulance Service can be contacted round the clock. ADAC Insured should notify, immediately after a disease, injury, or the recording in the hospital or in an emergency ambulance under+49 89 76 76 76 so that you can in a timely manner, and further measures are initiated to advise.

ADAC ambulance Service (source: ADAC ambulance Service / Tilman-oriented hard)

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