Traveling

The last century is known for its increasing mobility. Not only healthy persons travel. Drugs are available in most countries and if not, you carry your drugs with you. Patients with disabled mobility receive rights and assured possibilities to travel. This also applies too people with bleeding disorders. 

If you travel to another country, please inform yourself about the centers in the neighbourhood where you will stay. If you stay a longer time, take contact with the patient organisations of that country. They know the best where and how you get treatment. And by this way you are introduced and, if something happens, you have reliable persons who can advocate by physicians or haematologists.

To see the list of NMOs and Centers, please go to www.wfh.org. Click left on 'Resources'. Go to 'Treatment Center Directory' and click on 'passport' and fill in what you are searching for. On the website of EUHASS you also will find a very extended list of Centres, patient organisations and doctors in Europe.

When you travel, it is good you take precautions for the customs-office. You may ask in your treatment center a document, that you need the drugs in your hand luggage. You can download the document here (58 KB).

It's also good to have an identification card of your disorder. There are different systems and each Association has something like a 'haemophilia-card'. If not, you always can download the identification card of the WFH (75 KB) or of the Irish Society (141 KB). Make sure that somewhere you refer to your treatment centre and that phone and physician of your treatment centre is mentioned. 

Don't forget neither your international health insurance card. See on 'European Health insurance card' to find out how you can get the card in your country.

Finally, have a look on the Irish website, where they have a lot of advices for traveling. It helps to set up a checklist for your voyage. Enjoy your traveling!