<p>My teen was on a tour in Greece and had an emergency yesterday. A doctor was sent to the hotel. Teacher called me and said Dr. said child needed to go to hospital. Not being there, but feeling that the teacher would not have called if it wasn’t and emergency. I said yes to the hospital.<br>
Do they have National health care? I got hurt in the UK and I didn’t have to pay anything.
Do you think I’ll get a bill?</p>
<p>Didn’t you obtain travel health insurance for your child?</p>
<p>I’m not sure Greece’s government is in good enough shape to manage to send you the bill even if they wanted to.</p>
<p>I second the above question - didn’t you have some kind of insurance for your kid for this?</p>
<p>I don’t think foreigners who require medical services in the UK are covered by their national health insurance. You probably should have received a bill unless you had insurance while there or unless their government was also inefficient in this area and didn’t follow through.
[Accessing</a> health services while in England](<a href=“http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/uk-visitors/Pages/accessing-nhs-services.aspx]Accessing”>How to access NHS services in England if you are visiting from abroad - NHS)
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<p>If this is a school trip or a teen tour, check with the responsible parties regarding the insurance. A school usually has a blanket policy to cover things like illness on a school sanctioned trip. If a teen tour then you must see what is included and not included in the insurance that they have - speak to tour company.</p>
<p>Did you find out what is the matter with your D?
Our D was covered when she had to go to the Dr in Costa Rica,but they also have universal health care so we didn’t recieve a bill.</p>
<p>We had to pay in cash as we checked out of an ER in Paris…they refused to take our insurance or credit card. The amount was later reimbursed by our American insurance company, but it took a few months.</p>
<p>i would be much more concerned about my child than the bill…</p>
<p>My mom broke her ankle in Italy. She was treated and that was it. No bill of any kind.</p>
<p>@TheThirdTime: Seriously? You take from the OP that she’s not concerned about her child? Maybe she already knows her child is fine. Maybe she’s worried sick but knows that posting about that won’t help, so she’s asking about something she can control. Maybe it’s somewhere in between, for example the issue is a badly sprained ankle, she’s appropriately concerned and missing her child but knows it’s not life threatening. </p>
<p>OP, I know nothing about health care in Greece, but I’m hoping for the best!</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! Um, even though she’s a teen. I cried after the initial phone call from the teacher. Just getting a call like that, and your child so far away! Of course I was worried about her!!</p>
<p>The teacher kept me posted throughout the adventure. The emergency room was one big room, gurneys everywhere, very little privacy. Three different doctors over their 6 hour stay, no one could agree what was wrong. They gave her a shot of something, took a chest x-ray and blood. They wanted to keep her over night, but teacher wouldn’t let them. Daughter said she was glad teacher refused that offer.</p>
<p>Daughter was bloated, feet so swollen she couldn’t get her shoes on. She just woke up that way! She had lesions from head to toe.</p>
<p>When I picked her up at the airport, she was her normal healthy self she said the doctor who made the call to the hotel took 120 euros from her! Trip insurance will pay everything!</p>
<p>I am a single parent with no help. Two unemployed siblings have moved in with my children and I, wouldn’t you worry about a bill in this economy?</p>
<p>Again, thanks!</p>
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<p>Did you get a diagnosis? Did they treat her in any way? I ask because a girl on D’s school trip to France was debilitated on the trip with very similar symptoms. They took her to two different hospitals, no diagnosis or relief. Her mom took her straight to the hosptial on their arrival stateside.</p>
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<p>Who’s funding this trip?</p>
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<p>In Greece, if your daughter had just gone straight to the hospital, she wouldn’t have paid anything for an emergency visit…including meds. Yes, the hospitals are different than in the U.S. Had an emergency visit with my 8 year old some years ago in Thessaloniki.</p>
<p>CTTC/OP, so glad your D was OK, but what a scare! Glad her trip insurance will reimburse for the 120 euros she paid.</p>
<p>It must have been so scary for your D & her teacher! Interesting that no diagnosis was ever made. </p>
<p>Missypie, did the kiddo with similar symptoms ever get a diagnosis? How long did her/his symptoms persist? Inquiring minds are VERY curious and need to know in case any of us encounter this.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard. They just returned yesterday and she was very ill when she left with her mother.</p>
<p>Hope she’s soon better. Please post whatever they find out, as it is something to be aware of for others whose kids may exhibit similar symptoms on travel.</p>
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<p>What does your question have to do with anything?</p>
<p>I’m also a single mother. I watch my pennies carefully and would worry about a potentially large medical bill. That doesn’t mean that I’m not able to save carefully, and set aside my money for things I think are important like a summer program.</p>
<p>Besides, even a very wealthy person is entitled to wonder about the cost of things.</p>
<p>Glad that your DD is okay! Sorry, that you had so much stress!</p>
<p>FWIW, I had similar symptoms that came on quickly and left quickly when I was at a beach in Germany ( I was about 12 years old). My mother quickly got me off the beach and gave some benadryl to me (she always carried this around for emergency before it was over the counter). It worked, so I assume that I was allergic to something. My point is that I would wonder if your DD had a possible allergic reaction to something.</p>
<p>Since your child’s symptoms came & went so rapidly, I would also wonder if it might have been some sort of an allergic reaction. Am surprised by the term “lessions.” For us, allergic reactions tend to be welts and/or hives and/or redness, heat, and/or itching but not actual lessions.</p>