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Looking for some info on where to go for tropical disease immunizations in Bali (Ubud??) - and the cost. We are assuming it is cheaper there than in Canada. Also, has anyone had trouble getting JE vaccines? I know there is a world shortage. Thank you!

We use Dr Ristie Darmawan for jabs in Bali. She’s good.
She works at BIMC (Bali International Medical Centre) but does private work at her clinic which has recently moved to Jl Dewi Sri in Kuta – near Kuta gallery & opp “The White House”.

Costs – can’t remember but
1. Cheapest at Bumrungrad in BKK
2. Bali – 2nd cheapest
3. UK – most expensive

Thanks Vincent! Will look up your Doctor when we get there. I tried to contact the clinics about prices, but nobody was responding... so due to time restraints and dislike for developing avoidable tropical diseases, we have started shots here - I suspect we are in the UK price range. Shame. thanks!

I know I will freak out a few of the local expats, but it would be better to get your shots at home, when you are buying couterfiet chinese toothpast at the market there, it makes you wonder whats really in that needle....Not that they would be doing that on purpose..... Frog

When and if I buy mine immunizations a always get them at home (the Netherlands). Not because I mistrust the hospitals elswhere but because I have been told you need to take some a them some time before travelling to Asia to take effect.

froggy wrote:I know I will freak out a few of the local expats, but it would be better to get your shots at home, when you are buying couterfiet chinese toothpast at the market there, it makes you wonder whats really in that needle....Not that they would be doing that on purpose..... Frog

I really don't think you have much to worry about if you choose a reputable doctor. SOS for example cost us less than NZ (with our Kitas) and has a very high standard.

Maybe read this and think again?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/t ... 656627.stm

VincentOG wrote:We use Dr Ristie Darmawan for jabs in Bali. She’s good.
She works at BIMC (Bali International Medical Centre) but does private work at her clinic which has recently moved to Jl Dewi Sri in Kuta – near Kuta gallery & opp “The White House”.

Ina and I have used Dr Ristie and received excellent, highly professional service. It's the little things you notice too. I emailed BIMC a few months ago to let them know the map on their website was difficult to read. In no time at all they had replaced it and sent me an email thanking me for bringing it to their attention.

Markit wrote:Maybe read this and think again?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/t ... 656627.stm

Not sure how that applies to an internationally accredited place like BIMC or SOS.

Having had the same treatment at SOS and a private clinc in Auckland, SOS was head and shoulders ahead in treatment and price. The doctor at SOS was not 100% sure on a diagnosis and made cellphone calls to Jakarta and bangkok to confirm, before prescribing.

BBC Two - strike one. In Nigeria - strike two. Posted by Markit - strike three.

SG,

My experience at SOS was remarkably different from yours.

In July 2002, at 6:00 am, I was walking in the already crowded Jimbaran market with the Chef at Bumbu Bali. My right foot slipped on a step that I had not seen, because of the crowd around me. There was like the pop of a gun fire, and a really excruciating pain in my right ankle. At first, I thought someone had shot me. But in Bali!? It turned out that I probably had torn my Achilles tendon. My wife said we should observe it for the next couple of hours: if it turned black, I had to be evacuated for repair urgently (She used to be a professional tennis pro and coach, and had seen many such injuries). It did not turn black, but I was in pain. So, in the afternoon, I ended up at SOS.

The staff was very nice of course, but the doctor totally useless. He obviously did not know what to do about the injury, which is not that uncommon (the ankle should have been immediately immobilized). He just bandaged it, and he also told me he would call Jakarta to confer with one of his colleagues about what to do next. Unfortunately, the colleague was not available at the time. We waited for about one hour, but still no Jakarta doctor.

Since there were no point for me to hang around, the doctor told me to go home, and he would continue to call Jakarta, and report to me about what should be done…Five years later, I am still waiting for his phone call telling me my next move is to be…

Three months later, upon my return to the US, I was told by a real doctor that my Achilles tendon had almost been severed, and I was lucky it was only "almost." However, there was nothing to be done, after such a long time with no treatment.

Tin Tin..similar experience in NZ...I did my Achilles in in Auckland years back and went to A&E only to be told by an intern I'd sprained my ankle. He was about to strap it when an African doctor working on exchange stopped him and put me in plaster

I guess it depends on the doctor.

SOS in Aktau Kazakhstan was useless as the doctor was incompetent however in other parts they have been excellent. Maybe it is a lottery

In reading up and watching various things that have been passing through the news over the last 6 months it seems that the drug counterfeit problem isn't just restricted to the developing world but the gangs in China are doing it on an industrial level - this coincides with the experience of someone I know at Merck (the German one) she says that the big companies are quite worried that they will be sued for medicines that even they have difficulty identifying as theirs - from the package, of course. The contents are always different. It has nothing to do with the good standing of the doctor or hospital if even the producers have difficulty with the identifying good from bogus.

Speaking of bogus.

Allen, every time I read some poisonous little note from you I get a lovely warm feeling of accomplishment in the sure knowledge that I played a small role in your getting fired and that it really rots your socks. LOL :lol:

Rots my socks? How quaint.

Markit if your delusions make you feel good inside you are welcome to them.

Do you have anything to add that's relevant to Bali or just a lot of scaremongering about real estate, doing business and buying pharmaceuticals?

SG,

Yes, of course it depends on the doctor, and your similar experience proves it. These two flanky doctors, your intern and my SOS doctor, must have attended the same correspondence course of the same medical school.