Zurich Telemedicina – Zurich Insurance Company Ltd

Description

Zurich Travel offers you an innovation for your medical care. The term telemedicine originates from the Greek word ‘tele’, which means distance. Although in Brazil, it is a resource that is still rarely used, Telemedicina covers all medical practice performed at a distance, regardless of the instrument used for this relationship. The practice originates in Israel and is widely applied in the United States, Canada and European.

At Zurich Travel, we offer you the Telemedicine resource for the medical consultation procedure in the United States, when we identified the following symptoms: Allergies, Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold, Vomiting, constipation, Diarrhea, Ear Infection, Sinusitis, Pain throat, fever, headache, joint pain, insect bites, nausea, cracks, and urinary tract infection.

By downloading our application, you will be able to talk to our Call Center via WIFI, phone or chat.

Our operator will initiate the assistance by identify where you are and whether your current health conditions fit into the qualifying symptoms previously defined.

If you are in the United States, our operator will offer you this alternative, which is more comfortable, since you do not have to go to any medical establishment.

By agreeing, our operator will schedule your appointment and provide an access code so that at the indicated local time you enable your conversation with the medical provider. For your convenience the medical provider speaks Portuguese.

The consultation time is around 12 to 15 minutes long and if there is a need for medication, our medical provider will identify where you are and will contact the drugstore closest to your address.

The doctor will contact the pharmacist and prescribe the medication over the phone. You should go to the drugstore to purchase and you may even receive a discount on the medicine.