Travel Medicine

 

If you’re travelling overseas, you need to protect yourself from infectious diseases across international borders. Belfast North MEDIQUAL Doctors offer the best care and advice on all travel immunisations including pre-travel vaccination, official Yellow Fever Vaccine Center and post-travel medical consultation.

Whether short trip, repeated trips, extended stay to work, play or rest.

Whether it’s for business, church missions, corporate, government, humanitarian work, independent or group travel, we’ve got you covered!

We can offer same day consults for Travel Medicine for urgent travel and within 2-3 days for non-urgent.

We are Yellow Fever Accredited

 

 

 

While you are likely to have had the routine vaccinations and childhood immunizations needed to live in NZ, some may need updating before you travel. These may include:

  • Chicken Pox
  • Diphtheria
  • Flu Vaccine
  • Hepatitis B
  • Measles
  • Mumps
  • Pneumonia
  • Rubella
  • Tetanus
  • Whooping Cough

In addition, there may be other specialised travel vaccines you will need to protect yourself before going to the Pacific, Asia, Africa, the Middle East or South America, such as:

  • Cholera
  • Hepatitis A
  • Japanese Encephalitis
  • Malaria
  • Meningitis
  • Polio
  • Rabies
  • Tetanus
  • Travelers Diarrhoea
  • Typhoid
  • Yellow Fever

Our Comprehensive Travel Med Service Includes

Relevant, up to date, efficient, cost-effective and caring travel health services prior to your travel.

  • Facts on immunisations for your travel itinerary
  • Administration of appropriate vaccines including yellow fever as needed
  • Recommendations on health issues for travelers
  • Health Care Precautions
  • Valuable information on safety
  • Advice on First Aid Kits
  • Malaria prevention, advice and medications
  • Dengue fever prevention
  • Travelers diarrhea prevention
  • Disease outbreaks and travel health alerts
  • Insect precautions for mosquito borne illnesses such as Schistosomiasis from swimming in areas infested with larvae
  • Travel vaccine passport
  • Advice for the pregnant traveler, children, and solo travelers

Societies

We are members of:

  • NZSTM (New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine)
  • NZCGP
  • International Society of Travel Medicine
  • APTMS (Asia Pacific Travel Health Society)

There are a number of different governmental agencies and professional organizations providing information and recommendations on preventative health care and vaccination requirements:

  • The World Health Organization (WHO)
  • The International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM)
  • The US Center for Disease Control (CDC)

We provide you with specialist advice from these organisations when traveling to any and all quadrants of the world.