Travel Insurance and Health Certificates

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Travel Insurance and Health
Certificates

2. Travel Insurance can be helpful
in many ways.
It protects traveler from the
unexpected.

3. Its an Insurance Policy that is
intended to cover medical
expenses, flight delays or loss of
baggage, either the traveler's own
country or internationally.

4. Travel Insurance can be arranged at
the time of booking of a trip or it can
be arranged later.
It’s a cover plan for your risks you
might have to face in your trip.

5. It covers death, personal accident,
repatriation, medical expense, loss of
package and passport loss.

6. People travel for either business purpose
or for fun, but they don’t want anything
to ruin their holiday or an important
business meeting.
But there could be a possibility of
occurrence of some unexpected events.

7. Travel Insurance covers personal
accident, medical emergency, death, loss
of belongings, flight cancellation/delay
and other unfortunate events.

8. Domestic Travel Insurance
Domestic travel insurance usually
provides for delays, cancellations, loss of
or damage to luggage and personal
effects, and personal liability.
It may also provide cover for rental
vehicle insurance excess paid for
unexpected scrapes in rental cars and
emergency accommodation.

9. International Travel Insurance
International travel insurance policies
cover overseas medical and dental
expenses, lose or stolen luggage, liability
cover, accidental death or disability, and
expenses if you incur a financial loss due
to delays, cancellations or rescheduled
arrangements.
Offer additional services, such as 24-
hour medical emergency translation.

10. Health Documents
Health documents Some countries
require visitors to take some
precautionary vaccinations prior to a
visit. These are normally for Yellow Fever
& Cholera infected zones. Pax must have
these vaccinations endorsed in a booklet,
format for which is prescribed by the
WHO.
Yellow Fever
Cholera

11. YELLOW FEVER
Yellow Fever - Validity of
Vaccination Primary
Vaccination - Certificate valid
for 10 years beginning 10 days
after primary vaccination. Re-
vaccination within validity -
Certificate will be valid for
another 10 years beginning on
the date of re-vaccination.
However the old certificate
must be shown during the first
10 days after re-vaccination.

12. CHOLERA
Cholera - Validity of
Vaccination Primary
Vaccination - Certificate
valid for 6 months
beginning 6 days after
primary vaccination. Re-
vaccination within validity -
Certificate will be valid for
another 6 months
beginning on the date of re-
vaccination.
However the old certificate
must be shown during the
first 6 days after re-
vaccination.

13. Health Regulation
a) For entry into India:
Any person, Foreigner or Indian, (excluding infants
below six months) arriving by air or sea without a
vaccination certificate of yellow fever will be kept in
quarantine isolation for a period up to 6 days if:
 He arrives in India within 6 days of departuretransit
from a yellow fever endemic area.
 Has come on a ship which has started from or transited at
any port in a yellow fever endemic country within 30 days
of its arrival in India provided such ship has not been
disinfected in accordance with the procedure laid down by
WHO.

14. a) For leaving India
There is no health check requirement by
Indian Government on passengers leaving
India.
Persons leaving for a yellow fever
infected area advised in their own interest
to get themselves vaccinated ant to be
possession of valid yellow fever vaccination
before they leave country.

15. Persons exempted from production of
vaccination certificate:
The under mentioned are exempted from production
yellow fever vaccination certificate:
• Infants below the age of six months.
• Any persons suffering from some chronic illness and has
poor resistance and is thereby exempted from being
vaccination.
• Crew and passengers of an aircraft transiting through an
airport located in yellow fever infected area provided Health
Officer is satisfied that such persons remained within the
airport premises during the period of stay.