Colombia Medical aid

Medical facilities outside the major cities are extremely poor and few. Good medical care is available only in Bogotá, Cartagena, Cali, Medellin and some other major cities. In the province of the full range of medical services provide small clinic, suffering from significant shortfall of qualified personnel and medicines. In complex cases, patients being sent for treatment in the capital and other major cities. Medical insurance of international standard, providing for the evacuation by air if necessary, it is strongly recommended.

For all foreigners arriving from areas with yellow fever require inoculation against the disease. Especially those measures recommended for those tourists who intend to visit the middle Magdalena River Valley, eastern and western foothills of the Cordillera and Sierra Nevada, bordering with Ecuador and Venezuela regions, as well as the Orinoco and Amazon. All travelers visiting these areas should have on hand a certificate of vaccination against yellow fever, otherwise - Colombian immigration authorities may deny permission for the trip. Exempt from vaccination, only children under the age of 1 year and transit passengers not leaving the airport.

For all the tourists traveling outside the major cities of the country, it is recommended immunization against cholera, hepatitis A, B and D, rabies, tetanus, typhoid, American tripanosomiasisa (Chagas' disease), mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, tetanus and measles.

The risk of malaria (P. falciparum - 42% and P. vivax - 58%) exists throughout the year in all areas located at altitudes of less than 800 meters below sea level. The highest risk of contracting the disease in Amazonia, Chocó, Cordoba, Guayniya, Guaviare, Putumayo and Vichada. Resistant to chloroquine is distributed in the form of P.falciparum Urabá Bajo, Cauca, Pacifico and Amazonia (recommended drugs sulfadoxine-pirimetaminovoy group). Advisable to carry insect repellents and settle in the hotels, whose rooms are always equipped with mosquito nets ( "Toldo" or "moskitero").