Qualification for treatment depends on the following:
Each medical case is unique. From our experience and depending on the speed we receive your translated medical treatment and diagnosis reports, it usually takes between 10-14 business days (excluding national and religious holidays) for the Cuban Medical Authorities to come back to us with a final assessment and decision regarding your treatment. We will keep you informed every step of the way of where we are in the process. If you are approved for a treatment, such approval will be in a form of a treatment program, which will promptly be forwarded to you.
Visitors to Cuba for medical care testify that treatments, which include, hospital stays and treatment at some of the world’s most prestigious healthcare facilities, accommodations, meals, recovery, and recuperation for the patient and a companion, are considered to be at about 40 to 60 percent less expensive than the cost of treatment in their home countries.
Upon receipt of your final assessment and treatment program from the Cuban medical authorities, CubaHeal will forward said program to you. This program will include the following details:
As for CubaHeal, our team, in full coordination with the Cuban Medical Authorities, will be on standby to offer the following services
Other than medicines, disposables, blood derivatives or substitutes and artificial supporting materials when indicated, all costs, including round trip flights, translation services, and companion’s accommodations are furnished ahead of time to the visitor.
Prestigious Cuban clinics and health centers, including Clínica Central Cira García (Cira García Central Clinic), Centro Internacional de Retinosis Pigmentaria “Camilo Cienfuegos” (Camilo Cienfuegos International Retinitis Pigmentosa Center), Centro Internacional de Salud “La Pradera” (La Pradera International Health Center), and Centro Internacional de Restauración Neurológica International Centre for Neurological Restoration (CIREN), have programs and medical practices based on a more articulated, organic and large-scale commercial activity.
Utilizing the experience Cuba has gained in more than five centuries of medical services, the strong infrastructure and logistics of its National Health System, support from the pharmaceutical industry, technologies from the so-called “Scientific Pole” (a science park to the west of Havana), and the expertise of highly competitive human capital, a group of programs have been created addressing high-demand specialties in the fields of Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Orthopedics, Orthopedics, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Adult and Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Oncology Surgery, Bariatrics Surgery, among others.
Cuba medical healthcare centers enter the international market of health services, with the guarantee and support of being accredited through their medical and health institutions. These health centers now exhibit ISO 9001- 2008 compliance certificates issued by the most prestigious certification organizations AENOR and Bureau Veritas as a reward for the quality of their management systems.
The certificates achieved by these institutions define and strengthens Cuba as ’Country Health’ destination.
At CubaHeal, we are fully staffed with teams of local medical associates fluent in your language and Spanish, allowing us to eliminate any language barriers between you and the team presiding over your recovery. Our associates will assist you every step of the way, from your arrival until the conclusion of your treatment and departure.
We will arrange your travel, stay, accommodation, and follow-up appointments with the original medical team to ensure the continuity of good medical care. Patients are often happy to note that they have to both wait less and pay less for Cuban medical services than those of their home country.
Cuban healthcare facilities and hospitals adhere to world class standards.
Should you decide to make Cuba your medical treatment destination, you will discover that these facilities follow rigorous cleanliness and sterilization programs. Furthermore, such facilities boast world class, 5-star standards, and are certified 9001.
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