Unlucky on holiday: the Cost 853.000 crowns

It should have been a great honeymoon with his partner, but for Helen Povall from Australia got the trip an abrupt stop when she fell and broke her hip in Machu Picchu in Peru.

Hoftebruddet, sygetransporten and the subsequent surgery and hospitalization varies, but ended up costing the entire 853.000 crowns (182.000 australian dollars).

The write News.com.au.

Helen Povall got the whole amount covered by its rejseforsikringsselskab, but the bill on 853.000 crowns is not even the biggest insurance claims are notified in Australia in 2018.

another traveler had a heart attack on his trip to the UNITED states, and it cost him 1.2 million dollars.

With easter just around the corner, many danes are also on the way on holiday, and although the blue health insurance card as a part years old, so it's not all automatically put it in your wallet or suitcase.

Forget the blue health insurance card, or have you simply not got it, it can be extremely expensive within the borders of the EU. A hospitalsregning in, for example, Spain can quickly run up the 200.00 dollars.

But an extra insurance in addition to the blue card may also be a good idea.

- When we danes travelling in the EU and bring the blue card, we will have the same opportunities for public assistance as the EU-citizen has in the country, in which we find ourselves. In many places it is enough help, but not as we know it from Denmark! It will often be a deductible associated with the bill - that is to say, have to pay part of the expense. All correspondence with doctors, hospitals, nurses will be in the local language, and the biggest surprise for most is, unfortunately, that the repatriation is completely on his own initiative and 100 percent for its own account. A both complex and often expensive cost, says Dan Kjølhede Laursen, Director at Gouda travel Insurance for the Extra Magazine.

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if you are Travelling in the EU, Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein or Switzerland, you must remember the blue health insurance card.

The blue card covers you in the same way as the citizens of the country you are traveling in.

The blue card does not cover evs. repatriation, self-payment or treatment in private hospital. In particular, the repatriation can be extremely expensive.

if you Travel in the UNITED states, your bill can easily become astronomical, when just a trip in the ambulance is located at about 33.000 dollars.

And it's not just broken limbs and other major injuries that cost the box. According To The News.com.au had a traveler in the UNITED states has been a hospitalsregning on the whole 415.000 crowns, after balanceorganet had been affected as a result of an inflammation in the inner ear.

- unfortunately, I think that it is often a proven opt-out rather than an oversight. An opt-out because the travellers are not aware of or understand the consequence it may have, if you do not have insurance that covers one during the journey. There are unfortunately many who still believe that ‘man of course is helped by one or the other’, it makes one at home in Denmark, says Dan Kjølhede Laursen and gives an example:

- If you are staying far away from Denmark and outside the EU, will the traveler be left without help at all. There are no places you can call for advice about illness or injury without having to pay 'up front', nor can you get treatment by a doctor in a hospital or even be helped by paramedics without having to pay an 'entry fee' before being helped. The economic and health consequences will for many people be completely unpredictable and at worst can create a lifelong financial disaster.