Frequently Asking Question

Medical tourism or health tourism is the combination of travel and the pursuit of health. Patients, particularly those from developed nations travel to other countries with cheaper healthcare facilities so that they can be cured of diseases and explore the nation thereafter. It is also known as health or wellness tourism.

The first reason for surgery in Iran is that you do not need to make an appointment in advance. The second reason is that your surgery or treatment is performed in the best department of any hospital with VIP services. The third reason is that your surgery is easily performed by the best surgeons in Iran. In some plastic surgeries, Iranian surgeons are the best in the world.
The fourth reason is that the cost of surgery in Iran is 50% cheaper than even the cheapest countries that provide health tourism services, such as Turkey, India, and Eastern Europe.

To be honest, if the surgery or surgeries you perform cost more than 1000 dollars in Iran, yes. Because usually, the same surgery will cost more than 2000 dollars in other countries. Apart from the cost, many cosmetic surgeries such as rhinoplasty in Iran at the highest possible quality in the world, and tourists consider Iran as their final destination regardless of the costs.

By traveling to Iran for cosmetic surgery, you can save from $500 for simple cosmetic surgery such as lip lift to $8,000 for combined and more complex surgeries such as simultaneous nose job + forehead lift or abdominoplasty + BBL surgery. By traveling to Iran for dental treatment, you can save between $1,000 for a single tooth implant and $5,000 for dental veneers. In general, if you live in countries other than Turkey, India, and Eastern Europe, you can save up to 80% of the amount you have to spend on surgery in your own country. Apart from the fact that the best surgeons do your work in Iran in the best hospitals and clinics.

The main reason for this price difference is the low value of the current currency in Iran. So that the monthly income of an engineer in Iran is between 300 and 400 dollars. This difference exists in health tourism services such as hotels, transfers, and surgery fees.

All the executive staff who will accompany you during the travel speak English well.

If you are not familiar with English, our translators in German, Russian, Turkish, French, Arabic, and Spanish will accompany you during your trip.

Mitramed‘s role starts before your final decision to travel to Iran for treatment. Where you will be given general medical advice by expert surgeons to make the best decision. After that, we will introduce you to the best-related surgeons in Iran with the costs of each. We will be by your side during the process of obtaining a visa and planning your trip, and we will be by your side from the time you enter Iran until the time you leave Iran. Hotel reservation, all medical tests, airport and intercity transfer, translator, accompanying nurse, and follow-up after the operation are our services.

It is very rare that such a thing happens. However, if you do wish to cancel the trip after commencement, a refund would be restricted to a limited amount and that too would depend on the amount that we would be able to recover from the hoteliers we patronize. We do not bear any responsibility to refund payments for unused hotel accommodation, transportation, and the like.

Also note that since the payments to the hospital are direct, no cancellation is levied on the same by MITRAMED.

MITRAMED provides emergency services for patients who need immediate attention. For such patients, we offer services such as ambulance pick up in case you need to go to the hospital directly from the airport. MITRAMED will also make arrangements for registration at the hospital so that the required treatment begins at the earliest. In private hospitals such as Apollo, you do not have to go through unnecessary waiting times.

A Medical Tourism Patient Survey, conducted in 2013, revealed that Asia and Latin America are two leading regions for medical travel. Most 70% of the patients who sought medical treatment abroad rated the care received as excellent. Nearly 27% of the patients had engaged in medical travel previously and 48% showed interest in future prospects for the same. Also, almost 85% of patients from the US stated that they received better and more personalized care abroad than in their own country and added that they would prefer to travel abroad again for medical purposes. Although no procedure is 100% safe or risk-free anywhere in the world, these countries have some of the best doctors and hospitals maintaining health and procedural standards equal to or higher than those in developed countries.

The constructive rivalry that has been going on between the clinics and hospitals that welcome foreign health tourists in Iran has led them to provide and utilize the best and most advanced medical equipment like countries such as America and Germany.

These medical equipment and facilities give you reassurance in pre-surgery tests, during the surgery itself, and its post-surgery healthcare.

Your companion can choose from a variety of accommodation options while you recover. There are several hotels and guesthouses where we can arrange a stay for your companion where you may join him or her after treatment. A lot of hotels are located only a stone’s throw away from the hospitals.

Yes. For most surgeries that do not require hospitalization or if you are discharged from the hospital after one or more days, we provide conditions in the hotel so that the nurse is by your side.

Entering Iran requires a visa for many nationalities. For an adequate answer to this question, please read our blog article about Iran visa.

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The market for medical travel is promising. Annually, around 10 million people from Australia, Canada, and the US travel abroad in search of affordable and quality treatment. Apart from other logistical issues with medical travel, arranging a medical visa is often a source of confusion for a medical traveler.

A medical visa is an authentication issued to an individual and set in the individual’s travel permit or passport by an approved administrative operator checking that an individual is authorized to enter the nation for a particular span of time and for the purpose of medical treatment.

More documents than a tourist visa are needed to get Iran medical visa. By the way, we must say that, unlike Iran’s tourist visa, it is possible to apply for a medical visa only through tourism agencies.

Documents such as a letter of introduction from an IPD-licensed hospital, in which you are introduced to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a letter from a treating doctor or surgeon, and medical documents that show that you are going to Iran for surgery. We at Mitramed company, having an official license, apply for a medical visa in the shortest possible time.

For medical services that do not require surgery, such as cosmetic dentistry in Iran, you can legally come to Iran with a tourist visa. In order to perform surgery in Iran in a completely legal manner, it is better to issue a medical visa to you.

After surgery, it may take a few days until the first visit to the surgeon. During this time, the surgeon will give you instructions from medicine to how to sleep and sit and take care of the operation area. In the next meeting with the surgeon, the doctor will check your general condition and the surgical area and if everything went well, he will allow you to fly and return home. After that, it goes through communication channels and follow-up is performed until the surgeon fully recovers.

The duration of your stay in Iran depends on your surgery and the result of the surgery and the doctor’s opinion. For each surgery, you can see the travel plan separately in the packages section or on the page of that surgery. The length of stay can be between one and two days depending on the opinion of the doctor.

It is essential for patients to carefully plan their travel back home, after undergoing treatment. Negligence in such matters can cause shortness of breath, chest pains, fainting, hypertension, heart failure, blood clotting, or deterioration of health. Generally, patients are considered fit to fly only after a complete checkup and diagnosis of the patient’s health, to uncover any after-effects of the treatment.

A few factors that influence travel after treatment are:

• Optimum air pressure level for the patient
• The movement range of his/her limbs
• Patient’s ability to sit for longer durations

All these cases will be explained to you by the surgeon and you will be allowed to return home after the surgeon’s permission.

You may have an accident or injury while traveling, obviously, in such a situation, the insurance book you have at home will not work for you. Therefore, it is better to insure your trip before entering the destination, otherwise, you may have to buy travel insurance at a higher price than its usual price at customs.

There is a lot of medical tourism insurance available to choose from. It is essential for the patient to understand what is right for him/her and choose wisely. The average travel insurance does not cover any part of a trip that is made specifically for medical treatment including any travel-related issues such as lost bags, trip cancellations, etc. To cover the trip for medical tourism, the patient must look into the different medical travel insurance policies that are provided.

International Medical Travel Insurance is meant for people who wish to seek healthcare security outside of their home country when they leave for the sole purpose of pre-planned medical treatment. The insuree is guaranteed coverage regardless of his/her health history or age.

No, unfortunately, because of USA sanctions against Iran International Insurance companies don’t cooperate with Iranian companies. These include Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, ALICO (American Life Insurance Company), and International SOS.

If you receive medical services with a complete package from Mitramed, your insurance will be provided by us for free during the trip. Mitramed cooperates with one of the best travel insurance companies in Iran called Asmari Insurance.

In order to know more about the conditions and items covered by health tourism insurance by the insurance company cooperating with Mitramed, please read the below photos.