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4 Things You Should Know to Prepare for Emergencies While Traveling

  • BY EA Editors
  • June 1, 2019
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When you’re out exploring the world, you expect everything to turn out for the best. However, anything can happen during your journeys. Vehicle collisions, natural disasters, and even medical emergencies can stop you dead in your tracks – so you will have to learn how to deal with such situations.

In this sense, it pays to learn a great deal about emergencies and how best to approach them. After all, if you’re involved in these kinds of scenarios, you will have to take the initiative and make sure that damages and injuries are kept to a minimum. And not only for yourself, but also for other people as well.

That being said, let’s look at a few things you should remember when dealing with emergencies while you’re on the road.

1. Learn the Right Skills

Before you can even start packing your bags for your next big adventure, it’s important that you learn the right skills to save lives. These skills may seem like an afterthought to any traveler, but they are actually necessary and essential in the event of a major contingency. For this, you will have to get CPR and first aid training through recognized courses.

Sure, anyone can search the internet for the proper procedures, but when it comes to real-world situations, you will need to have a more practical feel. Joining a class can help you understand these life-saving procedures more, so make sure to attend lectures and take part in simulations where you can have a better understanding of life-saving procedures as they are applied.

2. Have the Right Equipment

As much as possible, you should bring the right items that will come in handy in the event of an emergency. Come to think of it, you should be able to stuff your bags with medical essentials such as bandages and antiseptic solutions.

If you’re planning to go on a safari in Africa, these essentials are crucial for your survival. Once you arrive at your destination, you will have to be aware of the present dangers so you can buy additional materials for your first-aid traveling pack.

3. Plan Your Itinerary

It’s a smart move when a traveler decides to draft a specific itinerary before venturing out. While people keep on encouraging you to heed your wanderlust and go without a roadmap, it’s still much safer to plan an itinerary that allows you to avoid any possible problems that you may encounter along the way.

Also, it’s important that you inform your guides or even family members of your destinations. That way, someone can be alerted if anything bad happens.

4. Know Where to Go and Who to Call

If you have personally witnessed a tragedy unfolding before your very eyes, it’s important that you keep yourself composed and call the local emergency services. For this, you should be able to get the numbers of police, ambulance services, and other emergency responders before you leave your hotel room. You should also determine the hospitals and other public utility services nearby that can help with an emergency.

For more information on Medical Tourism here is a really great podcast: 006: Tony Medina – Building A Medical Tourism Business in Korea

Here are a few articles you will really love on Medical Tourism around the Globe:

No Kidding; Overseas Medical Tourism Is Well Worth The Trip

Medical Tourism for Expats and Retirees in Latin America

Medical Tourism in Colombia

Nicaraguan Tourism On A Steady Rise

 

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