Mexican health care/travel dangers

[massrn116]

There is a website..www.mexicovacationawareness.com that I think any traveling nurses should read before they take an assignment in Mexico. My husband and I went for our 25th wedding anniversary, our drinks were spiked at the resort. He developed neurological changes and I was "just" feeling overly intoxicated from one drink. Long story short I had to call for an ambulance, sorry to say health care in Mexico is so different than the US, $5,000 was put as a deposit on our credit card before they would even treat him. We got home safe and the price of a one day hospital stay was $5,592.00, very small price to pay for being able to sit here today and type this. On the website however are the many horrific stories of people that were much less fortunate. I am putting this on this forum because one person was a traveling nurse, there is a story about a young man that drowned and a nurse from Canada was trying to help him, yet hotel security held him back. There are many people that access this website please pass on the information and keep others safe.

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

That could happen in a lot of places of course, not just Mexico. I guess it is always "buyer beware" when you are away from home. So glad your experience is resolved.

[oramar]

There is a website..www.mexicovacationawareness.com that I think any traveling nurses should read before they take an assignment in Mexico. My husband and I went for our 25th wedding anniversary, our drinks were spiked at the resort. He developed neurological changes and I was "just" feeling overly intoxicated from one drink. Long story short I had to call for an ambulance, sorry to say health care in Mexico is so different than the US, $5,000 was put as a deposit on our credit card before they would even treat him. We got home safe and the price of a one day hospital stay was $5,592.00, very small price to pay for being able to sit here today and type this. On the website however are the many horrific stories of people that were much less fortunate. I am putting this on this forum because one person was a traveling nurse, there is a story about a young man that drowned and a nurse from Canada was trying to help him, yet hotel security held him back. There are many people that access this website please pass on the information and keep others safe.

Our Pittsburgh newspapers have run stories like this now and then. I wouldn't set foot in the place.

[eriksoln, BSN, RN]

Would you believe I know a travel nurse who works one assignment each year here in the U.S. then goes and lives in Mexico? I always wondered what the attraction down there was.

[Atheos]

Much of Mexico is nice. You just have to be careful where you go.

Aculpulco, Cancun, Mazatlan? Please... Tourist traps attract cons like fleas.

Also, the healthcare isn't that expensive. Healthcare for gringos (their term for Americans, especially white Americans) costs that much.