The Mediterranean Region, which embraces thousands of years of historical and cultural heritage with the beauties of the nature, hosts almost half of the foreign guests visiting Turkey every year.
Mediterra Assistance aims to provide healthcare services throughout Turkey, primarily in the Mediterranean Region, which is the most important tourist destination in Turkey. It has adopted the goal of ensuring that the guests who wish to obtain healthcare services both for diagnosis and treatment purposes and for aesthetic and cosmetological reasons receive proper, quality and reliable services. Mediterra Assistance has been founded in Antalya by Dr. İrfan ERDOĞAN, who has been a manager and accumulated 25 years of professional experience in the private healthcare services industry.
Health Tourism
The communication revolution and globalization have enabled people to grasp the importance of the concept of health and to gain a global perspective on receiving healthcare services. People who desire to obtain healthcare services for aesthetic – cosmetic or diagnosis – treatment purposes through health tourism wish to access to the better and the more economical in a more comfortable environment. Meeting these demands of foreign guests in climatically more advantageous geographies such as Antalya provides them with a chance to take a break out of their routine life while, at the same time, receiving healthcare services. The development of digital communication enables people to communicate what they want about health and beauty to healthcare professionals in a short time and to reach satisfying and almost precise information about what to do.
Thanks to its many years of experience in travel medicine, Mediterra Assistance can accurately predict which health services are needed by foreign guests especially in tourist regions and under what conditions they wish to receive them. This experience ensures to fulfill the expectations of foreign guests in the most appropriate manner and to enhance the potential for their positive feedback by treating the cultural and socioeconomic sensibilities of the geographies where they live with diligence. Being welcome by a team of professionals offers an important advantage for foreign guests who seek to receive healthcare services.
Mediterra Assistance works in coordination with private hospitals, public and university hospitals in Antalya. Healthcare service can be obtained from the most competent institution depending on the type of the medical service sought. In addition, it has a network which is capable of serving, where necessary, in any other locations in Turkey, primarily being Istanbul.
Assistance
It ensures the guests arriving in Turkey, and specifically the Mediterranean region, mainly for tourist purposes, to obtain the fastest and the safest healthcare service as necessary at the moment they need it;
It helps them to solve their health problems;
It assists patients receiving healthcare services in elimination of any possible problems with their insurance companies;
It performs visit of patients in cases required by insurance companies and, as and when needed, arranges visits of patients by specialist doctors for the purpose of providing a second opinion;
It renders insurance companies with cost containment services relating to hospital bills. It ensures the application of reasonable prices according to the treatment service provided;
It ensures the close follow-up of the insured and the checking of the indications for their hospitalization and the optimization of their hospitalization periods;
It arranges transportation of the insured to the doctor or the medical institution, as and when necessary, and their transfer to the hotel after examination and treatment;
It ensures the provision of Ambulance / Aircraft ambulance in the fastest manner as and when necessary;
It ensures transportation to airport and hospital of the medical teams arriving for patient transfer.
