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Turkey is a leading player in the medical tourism and healthcare facilitation industry. It is increasingly emerging as the destination of choice for holiday dialysis. Turkey offers you high quality health care and dialysis treatment while your holiday.
Holiday dialysis is the process of travelling to other countries for kidney patient. Several factors are driving the growth of holiday dialysis: high health care quality in holiday countries, convenience, accessibility of international travel, improved technology and standards of hemodialysis in many countries around the world.
This guidance relates to patients living in England only (or registered with an English GP), who are on some form of dialysis treatment. If you live outside of England (or are registered with a GP outside of England) then you will need to ask your renal team to find out how to organise your dialysis away from base.
Receiving any health care abroad can be risky. You need to learn about the risks and how to minimize them. “Dialysis Abroad" or “Holiday Dialysis" refers to travelling to another country for holiday dialysis.