3 vital things to consider when employees work abroad

2. Health

“Health problems for employees abroad are (as always) more likely to be caused by conditions like gastroenteritis, chest infections, accidents and complications of existing medical complaints than by serious disease or terrorist attacks. But today they are made more serious by the challenging and far-flung destinations in which employees increasingly find themselves.

“The journey to a doctor’s appointment in a high-risk country, for instance, will call for a security-trained driver in a secure vehicle. The success of an emergency medical evacuation in an area of political instability will depend on real-time security intelligence. And the lack of hospitals in an emerging country may turn a routine medical complaint into an emergency, unless a patient can be transported elsewhere (and that destination must be safe).

“When a member of a multinational workforce needs a visa to access cross-border medical care, they expect it to be provided. And when an interpreter is needed to translate important medical information, they expect one to be produced.”