What to do if you need a doctor as a tourist during your holiday in Greece.
Greece is one of the top tourist destinations in the Mediterranean. An estimated 25 million tourists will visit Greece in 2015 according to the Association Of Greek Tourist Enterprises (SETE).
There is a number of reasons why people enjoying their holiday bear a higher risk to be involved in emergency situations such as an acute illness or more complicated cases because of an injury caused by an accident.
Data among travelers during vacation show that injuries of any kind, minor or major comprise the leading cause for consulting a physician or for being hospitalized abroad.
Some reasons for this increased risk are:
1. Tourists during vacation are exposed to unfamiliar and perhaps risky environments
2. There are differences in language and communication
3. The so called vacation spirit leads to more risk taking behavior by the tourist
Other common causes that a tourist or en expatriate might need a doctor include:
1. Sunburns of any degree
2. Insect bites complicated by a superinfection of the surrounding skin
3. Allergies, Rashes
4. Gastroenteritis or food poisoning
5. Fever due to bacterial or viral infection
6. Cough due to a chronic or an acute respiratory disease
7. Symptoms from the urinary tract, pain under urination, presence of blood in the urine or inability to urinate
8. Pain in the abdomen
9. Pain in the chest
10. Dehydration due to long exposure to the sun resulting to sunstroke
11. Headache, dizziness, Vertigo
12. High blood pressure
13. High Blood Sugar ( hyperglycemia ) or Low Blood Sugar ( Hypoglycemia )
14. Acute alcohol intoxication
15. Minor trauma, cut wounds or sprains of the upper or lower extremities
16. Sore throat, difficulties in swallowing
17. Pain in the back
18. Earache due to ear wax or ear infection
19. Toothache or any other dental emergency
20. Bleeding from the Stomach or Bleeding from the Bowel ( Black or red, bloody Stools)
21. Loss of consciousness
22. Sea urchin stings
23. Fractures
CrossBorderMedCare offers a network of general practitioners that cover the whole spectrum of urgent care for tourists in Athens, Thessaloniki, Chalkidiki and the rest of Greece.
Our doctors of general medicine are very experienced in dealing with international patients and they are called at the place of the incident for an initial clinical evaluation. Their evaluation is decisive whether the patient can be treated on the spot or further evaluation and treatment is needed. If the evaluation is such that the tourist needs to be transported to the hospital then this is done by our ambulance service.
At our hospitals definite diagnosis and treatment is secured by our network of doctors of secondary healthcare.
We then make it easy for you by taking care of all the administration between the hospitals and your insurance company, since we collaborate with all the insurance companies worldwide.
Do you as a tourist need a doctor during your vacation in Greece?
The answer is simple:
Call 24/7, the emergency phone of CrossBorderMedCare :+30 6985112000
CrossBorderMedCare is a medical care provider with facilities in Sweden and Greece. CrossBorderMedCare offers a wide spectrum of health care services that meet all the needs of an international patient ranging from urgent to planned medical and dental care. 
Athens BioClinic Hospital is a member of Bioiatriki Healthcare Group which is the largest private medical care provider in Greece. Bioiatriki Healthcare Group owns 26 fully automated primary care Diagnostic Centers and 2 hospitals in Athens and Thessaloniki serving more than 2 million people every year. 
