https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/2026-09-17T00:00:00ZNaNhttps://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/country/georgia/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A small, almost entirely privatised health system on the edge of Europe, selling to patients from the Caucasus, the Russian-speaking world and the Gulf.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/country/ireland/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A country that mostly sends patients out and takes very few in.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/country/turkiye/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

The largest inbound trade in Europe, and the only one the state licenses as its own category.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/city/istanbul/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A clinic belt on the European side of Istanbul, thickest in Şişli — ten square kilometres holding 276,528 residents and the quarters of Nişantaşı, Teşvikiye, Pangaltı and Mecidiyeköy — and running north through Levent…

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/city/panama-city/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

Panama's capital and, for this subject, the whole of the country: 410,354 people in the city proper at the 2023 census, 2,100,189 in the metropolitan area, a US-dollar economy and a hub airport at Tocumen.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/abortion-care/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A pregnancy is ended, either with drugs or with a procedure. The drug route is two medicines taken a day or two apart, most of it completed at home, and it is used in early pregnancy.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/all-on-four/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

Four implants are placed in one jaw, the back pair angled forward to avoid the sinus or the nerve, and a fixed bridge of ten to fourteen teeth is screwed onto them — often a temporary one within about a day, with the…

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/angioplasty-stent/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A catheter is threaded from the wrist or the groin to the heart, dye shows where a coronary artery is narrowed, a balloon opens it and a metal mesh tube is left behind to hold it open.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/assisted-dying/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A person who wishes to end their life is prescribed a lethal drug by a doctor and takes it themselves, with an organisation present.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/cabg/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A length of vein from the leg or artery from the chest wall is sewn around a blocked coronary artery so blood reaches the muscle beyond it. Several grafts in one operation is usual.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/cataract-surgery/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

The clouded natural lens is broken up by ultrasound and removed through a small wound, and an artificial lens is folded into the empty capsule.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/dental-crown/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A tooth is reduced to a stump, an impression or scan is taken, a laboratory makes a cover in metal, porcelain-fused-to-metal, lithium disilicate or zirconia, and it is cemented or screwed on.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/dialysis-holiday/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A person on maintenance haemodialysis books sessions at a unit somewhere else and goes there.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/full-mouth-restoration/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

Rebuilding both jaws: extractions where teeth cannot be kept, implants or bridges where they cannot be replaced otherwise, crowns on what remains, and often a raising of the bite.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/gallbladder-removal/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

The gallbladder is removed through four small incisions with a camera, or through a larger cut where the keyhole route fails.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/heart-valve-replacement/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A diseased valve — most often the aortic or the mitral — is cut out and a mechanical or tissue prosthesis is sewn in its place, on cardiopulmonary bypass through an opened chest, or through a smaller incision with an…

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/hernia-repair/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A defect in the abdominal wall is closed and usually reinforced with a synthetic mesh, through an open incision or through keyhole ports. The commonest general-surgical operation in most countries.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/hysterectomy/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

The uterus is removed — through the abdomen, through the vagina, or through keyhole incisions with a camera, which is the route the packages read for this record price.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/icl/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A soft lens is folded through a small corneal wound and placed behind the iris, in front of the eye's own lens, which stays. No tissue is removed and the operation can in principle be reversed.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/knee-replacement/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

The worn surfaces of the knee are cut away and replaced with metal and plastic: a femoral component on the thigh bone, a tibial tray on the shin, a polyethylene bearing between them, and often a patellar button behind…

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/lasik/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A thin flap is cut in the surface of the cornea, the tissue beneath is reshaped with an excimer laser to change where the eye focuses, and the flap is laid back without stitches.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/liver-transplant/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A diseased liver is removed and replaced, either with a whole organ from a deceased donor or with a lobe cut from a living one.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/phalloplasty/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A penis is built from a flap of the patient's own skin, fat and nerve — most often the forearm, otherwise the thigh, groin or back — transferred to the pubis and connected to blood vessels and nerves there.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/prostatectomy/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

For cancer, the whole prostate and the seminal vesicles are removed and the bladder rejoined to the urethra — increasingly through a robotic console, with four nights on the Bangkok package read for this record.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/root-canal/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

The dead or infected pulp is removed, the canals inside the root are cleaned, shaped and filled, and the tooth is sealed. The NHS describes it as treatment for infection at the centre of a tooth.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/stem-cell-unproven/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A cell preparation is injected, infused or implanted as a treatment for a condition it has not been approved to treat.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/top-surgery/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

Breast tissue is removed and the chest is reshaped to a male contour.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/vaginoplasty/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

The testes are removed, the penile and scrotal tissue is dismantled, and a vaginal canal is made in the space between the bladder and the rectum, lined with penile skin turned inside out, with a scrotal skin graft, with…

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/veneers/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A thin facing is bonded to the front of a tooth, usually after some enamel is removed.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/acibadem/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A hospital group, not a building: 29 hospitals and 15 medical centres by the Wikipedia count, 45 or more hospitals and clinics by the group's own, spread across Türkiye, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and…

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/albert-einstein-sao-paulo/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A private nonprofit hospital in Morumbi, on the south side of São Paulo, inaugurated on 28 July 1971 and run by the Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein, a charitable society founded in 1955 by…

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/american-hospital-dubai/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A 254-bed private acute general medical and surgical hospital in Dubai, established in 1996 by the Mohamed & Obaid Al Mulla Group, working in more than 40 specialties with seven satellite clinics across the emirate.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/anadolu-medical-center/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A 209-bed hospital at Gebze in Kocaeli, opened on 12 February 2005 by the Anadolu Foundation and affiliated since 2002 with Johns Hopkins Medicine International.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/asan-medical-center/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

South Korea's largest hospital: 2,446 beds on 280,000 square metres at 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil in Songpa-gu, Seoul, established in June 1989 by Chung Ju-yung through the charitable Asan Foundation.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/charite-international/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

The international-patient arm of Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the joint medical faculty of the Free University and the Humboldt University and, at about 3,000 beds across four campuses, the largest university…

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/clinica-biblica/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A private hospital in central San José, on Avenida 14, founded in 1929 by Henry and Susan Strachan of the Latin American Mission and now the largest private hospital in Costa Rica.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/clinica-las-americas/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A high-complexity private clinic in western Medellín, part of Grupo Las Américas and owned by the Peruvian healthcare group Auna.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/fundacion-santa-fe/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A private nonprofit foundation in northern Bogotá, created on 2 November 1972 with no owners and no shareholders, whose university hospital on Calle 119 was the first organisation in Colombia accredited by Joint…

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/hadassah/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A Jerusalem hospital on two campuses — Mount Scopus, opened 1939, and Ein Kerem, established 1961 — with more than 1,300 beds between them, 31 operating theatres and nine intensive care units.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/heidelberg-university-hospital/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A 1,991-bed public university hospital at Im Neuenheimer Feld in Heidelberg, treating over a million patients a year.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/hospital-angeles-tijuana/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

An eleven-storey private hospital of 29,108 square metres in the Zona Río of Tijuana, opened in 2005 and run by Grupo Ángeles, Mexico's largest private hospital company.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/hospital-cima-san-jose/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A 103-bed tertiary acute-care hospital in Escazú, west of San José, opened in 2000 and owned by International Hospital Corporation, a Texas company that builds hospitals in Latin America.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/king-hussein-cancer-center/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A 352-bed independent non-governmental, non-profit cancer centre on Queen Rania Street in Amman, established in 2001 and chaired by Princess Ghida Talal.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/liv-hospital/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A Turkish private hospital brand with more than twenty locations, whose flagship is the Ulus campus in Beşiktaş, Istanbul.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/medicana/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A Turkish hospital group of eighteen hospitals — sixteen across seven Turkish cities, one at Winchester in England and one at Sarajevo — trading since 1992.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/memorial-sisli/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

The first hospital of the Memorial Healthcare Group, opened in 2000 on Piyalepaşa Bulvarı in Şişli, Istanbul, and the first hospital in Türkiye to take Joint Commission International accreditation — the 21st in the…

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/mount-elizabeth/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A 345-bed private hospital off Orchard Road in Singapore, opened on 8 December 1979 and owned since 1995 by Parkway Holdings, now part of the Malaysian group IHH Healthcare.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/raffles-hospital/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A 380-bed private hospital at the corner of North Bridge Road and Ophir Road in Singapore, opened on 31 March 2001 on the site of the converted Blanco Court.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/samsung-medical-center/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A 1,766-bed hospital in Gangnam, Seoul, opened on 9 November 1994 and run by the Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/severance/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

The oldest hospital in South Korea and part of the Yonsei University Health System: 2,437 beds in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, seeing about 2.5 million outpatients and 840,000 inpatients a year.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/sheba/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

Israel's largest hospital: about 1,580 beds on an 800-dunam campus at Tel HaShomer in east Ramat Gan, government-affiliated and attached to Tel Aviv University.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/hospital/wooridul/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A single-specialty spine hospital in Cheongdam, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, founded in 1982 by the neurosurgeon Sang-Ho Lee and built entirely around the spine: neurosurgery, orthopaedics and rehabilitation medicine, and nothing…

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/risk/alone-after-discharge/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

Discharge from a hospital abroad into a hotel room rather than a household.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/risk/anaesthetic-risk-unscreened/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

Pre-operative assessment compressed into the days between landing and the operation, carried out by a team holding whatever records the patient brought.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/risk/language-consent/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

A consent signed after a conversation conducted through a third person.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/risk/the-escort-burden/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

What the person travelling beside the patient carries: a second fare and a second bed, unpaid leave, and the nursing after discharge that no package quotes.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/rule/abortion-travel-law/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

Where a termination may lawfully be performed, on what grounds and to what gestational limit, and whether the law reaches someone who does not live there.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/rule/advertising-rules/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

The instruments that govern how a hospital, clinic or broker may promote treatment, and what it may claim.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/rule/assisted-dying-law/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

Whether assistance in dying is lawful, and whether the person assisted must live there.

https://nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/rule/cross-border-prescriptions/2026-09-17T00:00:00Z

Commission Implementing Directive 2012/52/EU, made under Directive 2011/24/EU, sets what a prescription must carry to be dispensable in another EU Member State.