Are you about to embark on a hiking adventure or a bouldering trip? Perhaps you’re about to set sail as part of a skippered team or plan horseback riding on your next holiday? Read on!

Access to your vital medical records when travelling could save your life. Too many misdiagnoses and delays could be the difference between life and death. Health professionals and emergency response teams need access to your most up-to-date history to treat you quickly and, therefore, effectively.

Doctor Ole Petter Drønen, from Help24, based in Gran Canaria, explains. “During ten years as a practising MD on Gran Canaria, I have been reminded daily about patients’ need for medical certainty abroad. The biggest problem has been people’s lack of knowledge about their health situation. This lack of information often leads to unnecessary examinations and hospital admissions, which steals valuable time, increases costs, and increases the risk of mis-medication.”

Control the Things You Can

If you embark on an adrenalin-fuelled adventure or take extra risks, you’re likely to declare them to your travel insurance company. But what if you’re abroad and your party has limited linguistics skills? It makes sense to take extra precautions when travelling – control the things you can, like your own medical journal.

Your medical history is your own. But do you know exactly when your latest vaccinations happened? What are the details of your last operation? What is the exact spelling of your medication? No? Nor do we! That’s where World Medical Card® comes in.

The World Medical Card® is a physical medical alert card and App that holds your vital medical information. Medical professionals and first responders can use the information it contains to provide you with fast and accurate treatment in case of an emergency. This helps minimize the time before you receive treatment anywhere in the world. Developed using the World Health Organization’s global standards codes (ICD-11 and ATC), the World Medical Card® ensures that health professionals and pharmaceutical personnel globally understand your condition and requirements.

You can take the World Medical Card® anywhere you go on the App on your phone and the physical medical alert card in case of power or internet loss.

The World Medical Card® Key Benefits

• A personal and up-to-date physical medical alert card with your vital information in case of power failure or where the internet is not available
• A secure and up-to-date App in the event of a critical situation
• Helps healthcare professionals or pharmacists get the right treatment for you fast
• Lists medicines and prescriptions, surgeries and implants, vaccines, allergies, donor status, X-rays or hospital records, photos of non-prescription medications, diagnoses and insurance details
• The App allows you to choose your profile language from English, Spanish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish.
• The App translates medicines, diagnoses and allergies into 135 languages
• Share your digital health card with family, employers, agents and other trusted people
• World Health Organization codes understood by doctors all over the world

Take the World Medical Card® with you; it could help save your life.