Travel Prepared, Travel Safe with GP Advice
Planning overseas travel? Whether for leisure, business, Hajj/Umrah, or adventure, protecting your health starts before you leave. At Kenneth Tan Medical Clinic, our Family Physicians provide personalised travel health consultations tailored to your specific itinerary, activities, and individual health needs.
Your Comprehensive Travel Health Consultation Covers:
Our GPs will discuss and provide:
- Personalised Risk Assessment: Evaluating health risks based on your precise destination(s), duration of stay, type of travel (e.g., backpacking, resort, business), planned activities, and your personal medical history.
- Destination-Specific Health Information: Updates on prevalent diseases, required or recommended precautions, and current health advisories.
- Vaccination Needs Assessment & Administration:
- Reviewing your existing vaccination record.
- Recommending and administering necessary vaccines available at our clinic, such as Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Typhoid, Influenza (Flu), and Tetanus boosters.
- Discussing requirements for other vaccines (e.g., Japanese Encephalitis, Rabies) based on risk, and advising on where to obtain them if not stocked here.
- Yellow Fever Advice: Discussing Yellow Fever risk and vaccination requirements for relevant destinations. Please note: We provide advice and prescriptions, but as we are not an MOH-designated Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre, we will refer you to an authorised centre if the vaccine is required. We can help complete the necessary documentation.
- Malaria Prevention: Assessing malaria risk for your itinerary and prescribing appropriate preventive medication (antimalarials) if needed.
- Preventive Strategies: Practical advice on food and water safety, insect bite prevention (for Dengue, Zika, Malaria), managing traveller’s diarrhea, altitude sickness prevention and management, and coping with jet lag.
- Prescriptions for Travel Needs: Providing prescriptions for antimalarials, traveller’s diarrhea treatment, altitude sickness medication, etc., as appropriate.
- Advice on Travel Medical Kit: Guidance on assembling a basic medical kit tailored to your trip and health status.
Who Should Seek Travel Health Advice?
- Anyone travelling outside Singapore, especially to:
- Developing countries or tropical regions.
- Areas with known disease outbreaks.
- Business travellers, humanitarian workers, and expatriates.
- Students travelling for exchange programs or study trips.
- Travellers with pre-existing medical conditions, seniors, pregnant women, or families with young children.
- Adventure travellers (trekkers, divers, etc.).
When Should You Consult Us?
Ideally, schedule your appointment at least 4 to 6 weeks before your departure. This allows sufficient time for vaccinations to become fully effective (some require multiple doses) and for necessary preparations.
Travelling Soon? Even if your trip is less than 4 weeks away, a consultation is still highly recommended. We can provide valuable advice and administer necessary vaccines or medications based on the available time.
Book Your Travel Health Consultation
Travel with greater confidence knowing you’ve taken the right health precautions. Discuss your trip with our experienced GPs.
Book an Appointment or call us for enquiries or to schedule your consultation.