Canada Ireland healthcare

[holidaysarenice]

Can anyone tell me if canada and Ireland have a reciprocal healthcare agreement? I'm here visiting and got sick, I have an Irish passport. Will that provide reciprocal healthcare. I know the uk and canada don't.

[DramaAlpaca]

I've just googled this & found this link which suggests not, but it says each province has different rules so it might depend where you are.

www.canadainternational.gc.ca/ireland-irlande/experience_canada_experience/guide/health_care-soins_de_sante.

Hope you are feeling a bit better.

[SociallyAcceptableCookie]

No. I've never heard of such a thing in Canada.

[SociallyAcceptableCookie]

But I hope you can get this sorted and feel better.

[holidaysarenice]

Thank you guys! I hope they do. Can anyone suggest where I might find out more?

[HerRoyalNotness]

Is it a hospital visit sickness or doctors? Depending where you are you'll need a walk in clinic. When we moved there on a work permit, we even needed the first 3mths covered by travel insurance before we were eligible to use the system in canada even though we were paying for it. I doubt very much as a tourist you will be able to access on reciprocal care. They don't even have that agreement with the US from what I've heard from friends there.

[MooseBeTimeForSpring]

Which province are you in? Here in Alberta the rules for eligibility are as follows:

Legally entitled to be or to remain in Canada and makes his/her permanent home in Alberta;
Committed to being physically present in Alberta for at least 183 days in a 12 month period;
Not claiming residency or obtaining benefits under a claim of residency in another province, territory or country;
Any other person deemed by the regulations to be a resident not including a tourist, transient or visitor to Alberta.

[holidaysarenice]

Hey I'm in British Columbia or Vancouver whichever is easiest, and I meant hospital care. It was a nurse who mentioned it to me but I didn't get a chance to ask anything more.

[MooseBeTimeForSpring]

The above applies to hospital care. If you don't have insurance you'll have to pay for it yourself.

Looks like the same applies in BC www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/infoben/eligible.html#who

[lazydog]

No, you are not going to be covered here (BC). Do you not have any travel insurance??

[lazydog]

To add...Canada has no reciprocal healthcare agreements with any countries, so I'm not sure what that nurse is confused about. There are reciprocal agreements between provinces, but that's all...and even then, I think Quebec is different as usual