Dear Colleague and Traveller:

Here'e What We Provide:

Please read the following then click here for more on travel medicine and the family physician.

The Fraser Valley Travel Clinic (FVTC) mandate is to promote safe and healthy travel. Our aim is to work with you, the family physician, to ensure the best possible service to your travelling patients. We are a Public Health Agency of Canada approved Designated Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre. Our vaccines are  received directly from the manufacturer and are stored in specially monitored state-of-the-art vaccine refrigerators - this ensures 100% cold chain compliance.

Travel medicine is a rapidly growing medical specialty which changes with each minute. We spend approximately 3 hours a day (1000 hours a year) keeping up-to-date with international related health issues. We often receive over 200 emails per day from around the world. They are carefully scrutinized and organized and become an integral part of the printed reports we prepare for travellers.

BY REFERRAL

Family physicians like yourself have been referring their travelling patients to our clinic for over 10 years. We offer your travellers the most up-to-date information and advice, along with extensive health education and answers to all their questions. A summary letter will be returned to you outlining the medical care they received, and the recommendations for future follow-up.

COMPLETE PRE-TRAVEL SERVICES

A consultation can take up to 90 minutes.  Yes, up to 90 minutes. Travel medicine advice is not an MSP benefit. The cost per person varies. A consultation fee is only applied once in case more than one visit is required prior to departure. Group discounts are available.  Extended health insurance providers may reimburse some costs.

Each traveller will receive:

-a complete range of pre-travel health counselling information including destination specific infectious/communicable disease risk assessments

-extensive written education take-home material

-informed consent for all vaccines selected

-permanent vaccination record

-automated recall letters to complete vaccination series

-detailed travel medicine reports for each country visited

-NEW!- access to special client-only web pages specific to each traveller's itinerary

-includes up-to-the minute disease outbreak data and security alerts

-advice on health concerns endemic to countries visited

-detailed prevention strategies for:

-insect-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and Japanese encephalitis

-food and water-borne illness such as traveller's diarrhea and schistosomiasis

-high altitude sickness

-specific traveller related issues including pregnant travellers, travelling with children, solo travellers and female travellers

-TB testing if applicable

POST-TRAVEL MEDICAL SERVICES

We accept referrals for patients returning with a travel related illness. This is an MSP benefit. Due to the nature of some travel related illnesses, a same day consultation can be arranged. 24 hour coverage is available most days of the year.

SPECIALIZED & GROUP CONSULTATIONS

Specialized services are also available at an hourly rate:

-expatriate preparation

-war zone travel

-wilderness medicine preparation

-expedition preparation

-team leader preparation

-medical team leader preparation

Off-Site Group consultations are offered at discounted rates:

-church groups/mission groups

-business and private organizations

-schools

-Department of National Defense

TRAVEL MEDICINE SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT

-mosquito netting

-sterile needle kits with certificates of authorization

-travel health books

-long-acting, fragrance free insect repellents

VARICELLA (CHICKEN POX) VACCINE

As a community service, we offer varicella vaccine to non-travellers at a nominal charge of $82 per dose for those with valid Care Cards.

It's flu season. And don't forget pneumo too!