TRAVEL MEDICINE
Travel Medicine is a branch of Preventive Medicine. It adopts special counselling to assess any contraindications to the traveller’s travel plans, and to identify, with regards to the risks of the foreign country, any entry requirements, including necessary vaccinations and prophylaxis.
Operating or service companies with international branches or construction sites in remote areas, but also sports teams participating in world competitions involving systematic travel of their personnel need medical support. Dr. Franco, who also specialises in Travel Medicine, manages all aspects, from pre- to post-travel, ensuring that travelling personnel operate under protected conditions, with a view to preventing risks to workers' health and well-being.
Her work concerning Travel Medicine includes:
Consulting services
- On-site surveys
- Evaluation of the health risk during travel abroad: health and safety.
- Setting-up of an on-site medical care system
- Remote management of emergencies and medical evacuations
Vaccinations and pharmacoprophylaxis
Dedicated training
- Prevention and protection measures to be adopted
- Medical hygiene regulations to be complied with
Telematic support
- For contracted companies, assistance via Web for travelling employees with direct consulting services both before and after travel.
MEDICAL TESTS and CHECK-UPS
Franco Medical Practice offers Competent Medical services, pursuant to It. Legislative Decree 81 and travel medicine services, with special focus on risk assessment (DVR), both for regulated and unregulated risks, and draws up specific risk protocols. The medical practice offers check-ups in the Ravenna practice or at the client’s sites, besides medical tests and clinical examinations via its network of collaborators. In addition to occupational medicine advice and medical check-ups in compliance with It. Legislative Decree 81/08 for suitability for the specific types of employment, Franco Medical Service practice also offers private examinations.
The following are available:
- spirometry,
- audiometry,
- eye screening,
- electrocardiogram,
- venous blood tests,
- urine tests,
- biological monitoring,
- vaccination,
- and tests to check for the presence of drugs and alcohol.
OFFSHORE and ONSHORE MEDICAL SUPPORT
Dr. Tatiana Franco is a physician for both onshore and offshore extraction and production activities. She is an expert in all areas of Occupational Medicine related to activities performed in extraction and/or drilling sites and on open sea offshore platforms. The medical practice provides care and support for medical emergencies, even with assisted medical evacuation of workers needing repatriation or admission to hospital for medical conditions.
Dr. Tatiana Franco and her staff
guarantee H24 medical care
for offshore employees;
Franco Medical Service is certified
also to provide assistance to offshore employees
when they are on land.
TRAINING
The consulting activities also include training on safety, offshore, travel medicine and promoting health and positive lifestyles.
First Aid Courses
The following are available:
- health and safety training courses;
- dedicated training courses based on the foreign destinations of workers and employees travelling abroad;
- First Aid training courses.
The courses can be taught on companies’ premises.
Dr. Franco will bring the dummies
and equipment required.
MyEjob
My Ejob is an innovative start-up born of the experience and intuition of a team of professionals with specific expertise in travel medicine, innovative digitisation, Web design and protection of user privacy.
The traveller and/or company can enter their travel profiles in dedicated and protected spaces of this Web platform, verifying in real time, given the health situation in the country they are travelling to, whether they meet the requirements to travel and what the obligations are, if any.
The platform offers the opportunity to create and update a traveller's status concerning:
- health-related aspects;
- documents required for the trip (passports, visas, insurance);
- safety of the destination (country-related risk);
- requirements related to the health and regulatory environment at the country of destination.