Traveling can be fun. However, it can be a nightmare when you get sick. What would you do if you get into an accident, contract a sickness or encountered an injury in a foreign land with no one to help you? It may become quite difficult for you to locate the nearest hospital especially if you do not know how to speak the local language. To address this problem, here are some apps worth downloading:
· TravelSmart
This is actually a free medical emergency app that works for both Android and ios. The app has GPS capabilities which helps to provide you with contact numbers of emergency services that are available depending on the destination that you are in. The app contains contact numbers to a list of hospitals in about 129 countries. As a bonus feature, it can also translate different first aid terms as well as provide you with a drug dictionary that contains list of usual medication with the corresponding foreign translations.
· Find-ER
This one is a free app for iOS. The app was actually designed by Ambulance Air Card which is a service which flies tourists home back to Canada or the US in the event that they have gotten sick or injured while they are abroad. This app helps you to locate the nearest hospital where you currently are. Additionally, it can also help to store useful information such as names and phone numbers of doctors and pharmacy, emergency contacts and some of your important health information like allergies, the medications that you are taking and your health issues and history.
· iTriage
Again, another free app for iOS and Android users. The app actually gives you a list of the most common ailments along with some information about them, like symptoms and signs. It is also engineered by Healthagen and it allows you to find the nearest hospital and would even provide you with different information such as the wait times in emergency rooms at a certain hospital. Just like Find-ER, it can also contain your personal health information which the doctors can gain access to in the event that you were brought to the hospital unconscious.
· Help Call
This app can be used to call different emergency local numbers (in the destination that you are in) including fire, police and the local ambulance. It also has a shake emergency feature. You only have to shake your phone and it will dial a certain emergency number which you have assigned.
The hard thing about traveling is that you will never know what you will encounter or what would happen along the way. There are times when you will encounter medical emergencies and that is why you need to bring some travel emergency supplies with you. In addition to these, downloading the apps mentioned above is also a great way to prepare for possible emergencies.
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