In 2023, more than 30 thousand people were insured against tick bite in the IC Absolut Insurance. The program was in the greatest demand in the Irkutsk and Novosibirsk regions. The insurer has received about 2.5 thousand requests from customers under the tick bite insurance program. Most often, insurance cases occurred in Siberia, the Far East and Karelia.
Absolut Insurance offers its clients a tick bite insurance program, which provides for the organization and payment of necessary medical procedures, including laboratory tests and emergency preventive immunization. The policy includes treatment and rehabilitation for tick-borne encephalitis, as well as rehabilitation and rehabilitation care after inpatient treatment. Additional risks can be included in the policy: bite of any other animals, with the exception of insects, as well as disability of group I, II as a result of tick bite, any other animals, with the exception of insects, that occurred during the term of the insurance contract.
You can buy an insurance policy against tick bite online on the website of IC Absolut Insurance. To do this, fill out the form and pay for the policy. It will be sent to the client by email. The insurance amount is from 300 thousand rubles.
"Upon the occurrence of an insured event, the Absolut Insurance client needs to contact the insurer's round-the-clock dispatch service by phone 8 (800) 700 47 70 and act according to the operator's instructions. You can call this phone from anywhere in Russia. The client will be promptly sent to a medical facility, where a specialist will remove the tick, treat the bite site and, if necessary, prescribe a laboratory examination. In addition, the doctor will give recommendations on preventive treatment and tell you in which laboratory you can examine the extracted tick for the likelihood of infection with encephalitis," said the deputy head of the Department of underwriting and reinsurance of IC Absolut Insurance Mikhail Chernykh.
It should be remembered that medical care for a person should be provided no later than 72 hours after the tick bite. The more time passes from the moment of the bite, the higher the risk of blood infection with pathogens present in the tick's saliva, the most dangerous of them are tick–borne encephalitis and lyme borreliosis.
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