Medical Strategies of New Zealand Immigrants

# New Zealand Immigrants # Introduction New Zealand's medical technology level is similar to that of other major western developed countries. There are public hospitals and private hospitals here, but public hospitals are dominant. If you are seeing a common disease, New Zealanders will generally go to see a general practitioner (GP) first, and then go to see a specialist or be hospitalized on the recommendation of GP. Here is nothing to tell you about the medical treatment strategies of New Zealand immigrants. Welcome to read!

How to call an ambulance?

In New Zealand, if there is a life-threatening emergency, you should immediately call the emergency number11to call an ambulance. If an acute disease or injury occurs in a remote area, you can also get helicopter ambulance service.

Hospital Emergency Center

After emergency and trauma, if the condition is urgent, you can go directly to the emergency trauma center of a nearby hospital. After arriving at the hospital emergency center, the nurse or doctor on duty will check and divert the patients, and the critically ill patients will be treated first. Patients at public expense can be free in hospital emergency.

See a general practitioner before seeing a doctor in New Zealand.

If you get sick in New Zealand, if it is not urgent, you usually need to see a family doctor or call a general practitioner first.

General practitioners generally have professional certificates in internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and so on. , and can cope with common diseases. All communities in New Zealand have family doctor clinics to treat common diseases, physical examination, vaccination, laboratory examination and health consultation. Many community clinics are run by more than one doctor.

Most general clinics in New Zealand belong to private medical institutions, and doctors can set their own fees, so the fees of each general clinic are different. Children under the age of six who are eligible for free medical care are usually free. When the general practitioner makes a bill for your laboratory examination, or refers you to the outpatient department or inpatient department of a public hospital for laboratory examination, imaging examination and continuing treatment, you can get free medical care.

Further reading: New Zealand investment immigrants

The threshold of investment immigration funds is higher, but the IELTS requirements are lower. New Zealand investment immigrants are divided into two categories, one is that the application threshold for non-English requirements is NZD 6.5438+million, and the other is that the application threshold for English requirements (IELTS 3) is NZD 6.5438+0.5 million.

Capital requirements:

1.I investment immigrants: After investing in New Zealand for 3 years100,000 Singapore dollars, you can use the investment funds to buy government bonds, funds and shops, but you can't invest in residential real estate or only deposit in the bank, and you can get the conditional right of abode when you arrive.

2. Investment immigration category II: family assets exceed S $2.5 million, of which S $6.5438 +0.5 million need to invest in New Zealand for 4 years and get a green card in one step.

3. Retired immigrants: Invest S $750,000 (bonds, stocks, funds or companies) in the areas designated by the New Zealand government, and prove that there are S $500,000 living expenses and S $60,000 annual income (the money does not need to be brought to New Zealand).