Birmingham, AL (February 3, 2004): Imagine having a heart attack in Peru, being in a car crash in China, contracting malaria in Kenya….or even having respiratory problems while visiting Great Aunt Sue in Kalamazoo. Even the most seasoned travelers worry about getting ill or injured away from home. A unique service called MedjetAssist was designed to take this worry out of travel.

An annual membership program, MedjetAssist protects members who fall sick or get injured when traveling for business or pleasure in the U.S. or virtually anywhere in the world. As long as members are over 150 miles from home when they’re hospitalized, MedjetAssist’s doctors based in Birmingham, AL and at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, work by telephone, e-mail and computer link with the medical team treating their members - wherever they may be. Once members are stabilized and able to be moved, MedjetAssist flies them home aboard a medically equipped and staffed aircraft and takes them to the hospital of their choice. Just like that. From Buffalo, from Botswana, from Bombay, from Buenos Aires.

Several programs on the market, as well as some credit card benefits, offer the promise to evacuate members to the nearest hospital (often for a fee) in case of a medical emergency; but then, once they’re able, travelers must make their own way home. Only MedjetAssist will transport travelers all the way to their hometown hospital or to a specialty hospital…and to their personal physician and to their family…at no additional charge. A one year membership costs $205, a family membership (for up to 7 members) is $325; short term memberships for 7, 14 and 21 days are also available, starting at $75. Each membership covers all costs from hospital to hospital.

“With the price of a medical transport ranging between $5,000 and $75,000 or more without a MedjetAssist membership,” says Roy Berger, President of MedjetAssist, “I can’t imagine why any savvy traveler wouldn’t take advantage of this service.”

To know more about MedjetAssist call 1-800-963-3538.

To know more about this release, contact Eric Goldberg at
212-288-1144, egoldberg@geoffreyweill.com

This press release is a service of WEILL, Geoffrey Weill Associates,
27 West 24th Street, New York NY 10010
www.geoffreyweill.com