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Healthcare and travel insurance in Madagascar
$17health spend per person
Healthcare in Madagascar
Healthcare is limited outside Antananarivo; serious cases are evacuated to Réunion, Mauritius or South Africa. Travel insurance with evacuation is essential.
Key facts
- Travel insurance: not required for entry, but strongly recommended.
- Pharmacies: Pharmacies in cities stock French-brand medicines; bring prescriptions, repellent and malaria prophylaxis.
- Doctors: 0.2 per 1,000 people (2022, World Bank).
- Emergency: Police 117 · Ambulance 124 · Fire 118.
Healthcare & insurance by place
Sources
- CDC Travelers' Health
- US State Department travel advisory
- Madagascar e-Visa
- UK FCDO travel advice: Madagascar
- World Bank open data
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