Health check-ups in Turkey
Turkey offers all five health check-ups on Medbook's list: a full-body health check-up, heart and brain screening, cancer screening, endoscopy and colonoscopy, and a women's health check-up. Your check-up takes place in one of Turkey's eight cities, and each offer shows which.
South Korea offers the same five programmes. What differs is the services around your stay: besides accommodation and an online consultation, which both countries arrange, Turkey arranges transfers, an interpreter, a personal coordinator, visa support and aftercare. Turkey also offers every other treatment area on Medbook, and you can choose a check-up and a treatment in the same request.
You see a price only when a clinic makes you an offer.
Procedures available in Turkey
- Full-body health check-up
- Heart & brain screening
- Cancer screening
- Endoscopy & colonoscopy
- Women's health check-up
Cities
Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Adana, Bodrum, Bursa, Eskişehir, Kayseri
What is arranged for you
- Airport and clinic transfers
- Accommodation
- Interpreter
- Personal coordinator
- Visa support
- Online consultation before you travel
- Aftercare
How a Medbook trip works
- Tell the assistant what you need treated, where you travel from and when.
- See the destinations that offer your treatment and choose where to ask.
- Receive offers with a price and dates.
- Confirm an offer and get a day-by-day travel roadmap.
What you can have done in Turkey
Each of the five check-ups is a programme of its own, and you can choose one or combine several, for example a full-body check-up with endoscopy and colonoscopy. Medbook's guide to health check-ups, under Treatments, explains what each programme covers.
Two related consultations sit in other areas: a cardiology consultation with tests belongs to heart and vascular treatment, and a urology consultation with tests to urology. Turkey offers both, while South Korea offers neither. If you would like a check-up but are not sure which programme, choose "Not sure yet" under health check-up. The clinic looks at your answers before it makes you an offer.
How the trip usually goes
Before you travel, put together the results of any recent blood tests and examinations, letters about conditions you are being treated for, and a list of your medications and allergies. Note anything you would like the doctors to pay attention to. In the online consultation, ask how to prepare for each part of the programme, how many days it takes, and whether a doctor will go through the results with you before you fly home. An interpreter is arranged for your stay in Turkey; also ask which language the written report will be in.
Once you confirm an offer, add your flight to your roadmap and then the transfer. You can book each yourself or hand it to Medbook. In Turkey, accommodation and the transfers between the airport, your accommodation and the clinic are arranged, and a personal coordinator looks after the practical side from the moment you land. If you need a visa for Turkey, visa support, such as an invitation letter, is among the services. How long you stay depends on the programme, and your clinic confirms the dates in its offer. When you compare offers, check whether follow-up after the check-up is included.
Questions
Can I add a cardiology consultation to my check-up?
Yes. The cardiology consultation with tests belongs to heart and vascular treatment, an area Turkey offers but South Korea does not. You can choose it together with heart and brain screening or another check-up when you describe your case, and the clinic confirms in its offer what it can do and when.
Can I go through my results in my own language?
Ask about it in the online consultation before you travel. An interpreter is among the services arranged in Turkey, and the language you choose when the assistant asks which one you are most comfortable communicating in becomes part of your request for offers.
Can I have endoscopy and colonoscopy without a full check-up?
Yes. Endoscopy and colonoscopy is a programme of its own on Medbook's list, offered in Turkey and South Korea. You can choose it alone or together with another check-up when you describe your case.