What fees do Portuguese immigrants have to pay to see a doctor in Portugal, and which ones are free?

Portugal has a sound medical system and a high level of medical care. Public hospitals and health centers provide free medical services to Portuguese citizens and foreign citizens who have obtained legal residency or legal work permits (according to the principle of reciprocity). After joining the Portuguese social insurance, you only need to pay the registration fee to go to public hospitals, and the drug fee is as low as 2-3 fold and 8-9 fold according to the nature and origin of the drug.

Note: When applying for immigration in Portugal, the applicant will be assisted to purchase immigration insurance (domestic and overseas insurance and local insurance in Portugal). Once the customer has purchased immigration insurance and successfully submitted immigration materials, it means that the applicant has entered the welfare system in Portugal and can enjoy the same free medical care as the locals.

Portuguese hospital

Portuguese hospitals are divided into public and private hospitals. Public hospitals are large in scale, well-equipped, with strong technical force, many patients and long time-consuming. It takes less time to treat in private hospitals. All communities in Portugal have community hospitals, but only provide simple medical services for the registered population in the community.

Among the top 10 Portuguese best hospitals, three are located in Lisbon, the capital, which is also the area where China people have concentrated their investment and life:

Lisbon North Central Hospital (North Lisbon or Santa Maria Central Hospital)

Located near Lisbon University Town, it is also the hospital where the School of Medicine of Lisbon University is located. Judging from the establishment of medical equipment and staff, this hospital is the best in China.

Lisbon western central hospital

The hospital is Portugal, which is famous for its rapid medical response. It is a merger of three traditional hospitals in Lisbon. O Francisco Xavier, Hospital de Egas, moniz), after the merger, the hospital purchased a lot of advanced equipment.

Lisbon cancer research center. Port. Treaty of Lisbon

This hospital mainly studies cancer patients and has certain authority in cancer treatment. The father of the famous Portuguese star nuno gomes suffered from lung cancer and was treated in this hospital for six years.

Portugal drugstore

Drugstores can be seen everywhere. Generally, there is a green cross sign outside the store. Drugs must be bought in pharmacies and prescription drugs must be prescribed by doctors. In some big cities, some pharmacies are open 24 hours a day. The price of medicine is moderate.

In Portugal, where the medical system is perfect, all private doctors, community doctors, specialized hospitals and general hospitals have set up corresponding procedures to share everyone's medical responsibility in every corner of the medical system, and everyone's health status is covered within the framework of the medical system. This move is conducive to national medical overall planning.

General treatment procedures in public hospitals

Go to Juntade freguesia (local government) near home to get a residence certificate. Required materials: passport, tax number materials, real estate license, house purchase contract.

The staff will ask some customers' parents' names and other basic information, input them into the computer system, and then issue a residence certificate. Because the residence permit needs to be signed by two staff members, it usually takes 5-8 working days to get it, so I finally handled it in advance.

Register at Centro de Saude (regional health center) near your home, explain your purpose to the staff when you arrive at the health center, and issue materials: passport and residence certificate.

The medical insurance center will register personal information and open a stamped material with the medical insurance number (important, please keep it safe! ), you can take this material to the public hospital. If you don't have a medical insurance number, you have to enjoy the benefits of seeing a doctor in a local public hospital.

The process of seeing a doctor is: the customer first makes an appointment at Centro de Saude, and then sees a doctor at Centro de Saude. If the health center can't solve it, it will help you make an appointment with a large public hospital and then go to a large public hospital.

If there is no appointment in a large public hospital, it will be treated as an emergency. Customers need to go to the triage desk first, and the nurse at the triage desk will distribute a paper bracelet with a barcode according to your symptom description.

Paper bracelets are divided into green, yellow and orange, and the severity is increasing. Then enter the patient waiting area to queue up. The radio will call the name, and after the call, you can follow the instructions to have a check-up or see a doctor. Generally, fewer people see a doctor in the morning.

After seeing the doctor, I went to the pharmacy to buy medicine with the medicine list prescribed by the hospital. Similarly, with the so-called medical insurance list, I can also enjoy preferential prices.

But don't think it's over. If you go to the emergency department, you may receive a bill from the hospital about a week later, which is about other medical expenses such as doctors and nurses who go to the emergency department, and the amount is not low.

Here, if you are not very clear about these expenses, you must go to the hospital to consult the department that issued this receipt, because some expenses can be reimbursed through the so-called social insurance system of SNS, but only those who pay this insurance tax can enjoy it.

Note: The above matters only apply to public hospitals, not to private hospitals.

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