This is a guide for international students in Japan to seek medical treatment in Japan.
✅ Required documents: National Health Insurance, Residence Card (remember to bring your health insurance card if you buy insurance)
Official website of the Japan Tourism Agency Tourists can use it
If you forget to bring it, you need to pay the full medical bill, and the hospital will refund the excess amount when you complete the documents.
The structure of hospitals in Japan is divided into clinics and general public hospitals.
Japan has implemented a hierarchical medical service system aimed at effectively relieving the pressure on large hospitals through patient triage strategies. Therefore, when most students are faced with health problems, the first choice is not a general hospital or a university-affiliated hospital, but a more convenient clinic (クリニック).
So don't worry about getting sick and not getting timely treatment.
Note: If you do not have a recommendation letter from the doctor at the clinic, you will be charged an additional "special fee" if you go directly to a major hospital for medical treatment. Different hospitals, the levy is not the same, generally 5000 for the first diagnosis, 2500 for the follow-up!
If you want to go to a major hospital for examination, you can contact the school doctor first, and if your illness is serious, the school doctor can issue a referral letter and go directly to a general hospital or university hospital.
✅ Procedures for visiting a clinic
1. Determine the clinic of the medical subject: search for the clinic corresponding to the corresponding department on Google maps, find the address and phone number, etc.
2. Make an appointment: The clinic basically adopts an appointment system, if the situation is serious, you can go directly, not so strict, and there will be special personnel to receive you after you arrive.
3. Fill in the medical information: Go to the payment office and specify the appointment number, and the nurse will give you a registration form to fill in your personal situation and symptoms. If it's your first time, be sure to explain.
4. Prescription: Fill in the case and wait for the doctor to write for you, and the diagnosis will be presented and the prescription will be issued after the diagnosis. (You may be advised if you need a follow-up visit.)
5. Payment: After the consultation, the consultation fee of the clinic should be settled, most clinics generally only charge cash, remember to ask when making an appointment, be sure to bring enough!
6. Go to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine: Go to the pharmacy to show the prescription to buy the medicine, the cost of the medicine needs to be paid separately at the pharmacy, and the hospital in Japan is separate from the pharmacy!
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