Many pediatric diseases are characterized by severe complications and require highly qualified, high-tech medical care. Faced with the problem, parents spare no time, money, or effort for their child. Therefore, to treat pediatric diseases, it comes as no surprise when German hospitals are found to be at the top of the search list for many concerned parents.
Content
- Benefits of treating children in Germany
- Main medical focuses
- Which clinics offer such medical services?
- Arrangement of Treatment in Germany
Benefits of treating children in Germany
Treatment can often be a more difficult process for a child than for an adult. Many additional factors need to take into account. The good news is that German child care hospitals do not look like regular clinics. They are designed in such a way that the child feels safe and comfortable as if at home or in kindergarten.
Only a certain amount of the time is spent on diagnostic, therapeutic, or rehabilitation procedures, while the rest of the time, the child is either playing or relaxing. The child is kept in high spirits, and the treatment procedures are well received.
The main benefits of treating children in Germany are:
- Comfortable conditions in the hospital for a child and their parents
- Highly qualified German pediatricians and other specialists who enjoy well-deserved respect all over the world
- Highly effective diagnostics that can determine the exact cause, prevalence, and severity of the pathological process in order to plan an optimal therapeutic tactics
- The latest treatment methods, including surgical ones that ensure high efficiency and safety
- The availability of highly specialized medical centers makes it possible to treat rare diseases that most pediatricians have not even heard of
In Germany, doctors give special attention not only to the effectiveness of treatment but also to its tolerability. A child should not suffer from lifelong psychological trauma because of unbearable pain or the side effects of medications. Therefore, German pediatricians use the right doses and good quality anesthesia, the most reliable treatments, whereas all side effects are eliminated by prescribing additional drugs.
Main medical focuses
All branches of pediatric medicine in German are well developed compared to third world countries and even some other first world countries. The large clinics have highly specialized departments or sections that deal with certain groups of pediatric diseases.
Here are some of the main focuses that are most in demand in Germany:
- Neonatal surgery – correction of congenital malformations
- Cardiac surgery - treatment of congenital heart defects, including those that are considered inoperable in other countries
- Pediatric oncology and oncohematology - treatment of cancer in children
- Pediatric orthopedics - correction of skeletal defects, including the treatment of scoliosis
- Pediatric urology - surgical correction of congenital disabilities of the genitourinary system
- Care and treatment of premature infants
- Pediatric neurology, including the treatment of epilepsy, infantile cerebral palsy, and other serious conditions
Which clinics offer such medical services?
Children are often admitted to the multidisciplinary university hospitals:
University Hospital Tuebingen. The hospital is included in the TOP-5 German hospitals according to the FOCUS magazine. In addition to the Department of General Pediatrics, there are specialized departments of pediatric surgery, urology, neurology and developmental disorders, cardiology, hematology and oncology. In particular, interventions on the brain and spinal cord are performed here in children of all ages. The clinic also specializes in the treatment of diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents.
University Hospital Greifswald. The Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine is awarded by the Ausgezeichnet FÜR KINDER certificate. The head physician, Professor Lode, is a member of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology European Neuroblastoma Study Group (SIOPEN), the German Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine (DGKJ), the German Society for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology (GPOH) and other professional associations. In addition, the hospital has departments of pediatric orthopedics, surgery and neurosurgery, ophthalmology, etc.
University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich specializes in the surgical treatment of children and adolescents. More than 1,900 operations for cancer and benign tumors, congenital malformations, pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract, nervous system and other pathologies are performed annually in the Department of Surgery. The clinic also has departments of pediatric epileptology, gynecology, urology, orthopedics, etc.
Another good choice would be multidisciplinary private hospitals for children and adolescents, for example, the Pediatric Diagnostic Hospital M1 Munich, where you can get help in all fields of pediatric and adolescent medicine.
Arrangement of Treatment in Germany
Sometimes it can be impossible for the patients to arrange a trip to Germany for treatment on their own. It is not as easy to be admitted to German clinics as it may seem. One needs to settle all issues with the administration, collect and translate all necessary documents into German, obtain a visa, and plan a trip.
Booking Health can take care of all these concerns. We will help:
- Select the clinic
- Settle all issues with its administration
- Reduce waiting time for a doctor’s appointment
- Agree on a joint stay in the ward with the parents
- Apply for a visa
- Get insurance that will cover unforeseen medical expenses
- Transport to the clinic from the airport and back
- Save up to 70% of funds
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Authors:
The article was edited by medical experts, board certified doctors Dr. Nadezhda Ivanisova, Dr. Farrukh Ahmed. For the treatment of the conditions referred to in the article, you must consult a doctor; the information in the article is not intended for self-medication!
Sources:
WHO - World Health Organization
Open Access Journals, Pediatrics Journals
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