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NetCare AFRICA-Travel Medical Kit (from MediCross Clinic - Pinetown, SA)

This is a very comprehensive portable medical kit, put together specifically for travel through Africa.

We have been extremely impressed with the help, information and medication given to us by the travel doctor Heidi managed to see while in South Africa (Dr.Richard Foster) who recommended a huge variety of items for us to include should we want to compile our own first-aid kit. This included medication, strapping, bandages, dressings and creams for burns, cuts, sprains, eye infections, fungal infections, allergies, headaches, nausea, diarrhoea, antiseptics, a good general ant-biotic, re-hydration, etc.

We chose to buy the above Africa-Travel kit which we would be able to take into a hospital and have an operation from, if necessary.

He recommended various injections that we would need and anti-malarial medications available for us to choose from (Doxycycline based tablets to suit our long term use, as they best met our needs and budget), as well as Coartem (a malarial antidote). To get the above medication you need a doctor's prescription. He also recommended that we take a number of Malaria test kits.