Press Release / A World Premiere in Travel Health
Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
November 14, 2011
TravelHealthAssist.com launches a new feature which constitutes a world premiere in travel health.
It is now possible for travelers and the public to quickly and easily find online the locations of travel health clinics and pharmacies offering travel health services in most countries worldwide through a new application for iPhone 3G / iPhone 4 / 4S iPhone / iPod Touch (3G) / iPod (4th generation) and iPad, on Apple store, and on the www.TravelHealthAssist.com and www.ConseilsSanteVoyage.com websites.
This innovative application also allows health professionals, travelers and the public to conduct on their own a free health travel consultation, to find out the relevant requirements for yellow fever risk areas for malaria and disease risks according to their travel dates, locations and particularities, for all countries in the world, and to see the latest travel health news and alerts.
It also includes a GPS locator to easily find clinics and pharmacies situated nearby a person’s actual location.
More than 860 clinics, pharmacies and hospital centers offering pre-travel health services or health care both during and after a trip situated in more than 76 countries worldwide are currently listed in our directory. Wherever you are in the World, you can find a travel health resource to assist you when needed.
www.TravelHealthAssist.com and www.ConseilsSanteVoyage.com websites have been launched in 2009 by Christine Dumontet, Registered Nurse, member of the International Society Travel of Medicine, of the Ordre des Infirmières du Québec and of several other organizations, in collaboration with Louis-Charles Gagnon, a specialist in software engineering and CEO of LS2 Investments, a software development business.
Since the launch of www.TravelHealthAssist.com and www.ConseilsSanteVoyage.com , more than 350 members (mostly MDs, nurses and pharmacists) have access to relevant health travel information updated on a daily basis to assist them providing their patients with adequate advice and all necessary vaccines and to ensure that all travelers leave well protected, and well informed of the risks at destination and of any required post-travel follow-up.
In 2011 only, these websites have already received over 46,000 visits and that number is growing every day.
More than 1200 health travel professionals around the world receive from www.TravelHealthAssist.com and www.ConseilsSanteVoyage.com the latest health travel news and alerts from worldwide recognized sources, including: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO)and its regional offices, Pan American Health Organization, Health Canada, Institut Pasteur, National Institute of Health Surveillance (France) and several others.
For more information about Dumontet Global Health Consultation, visit http://www.travelhealthcourses.com