Scheduling Exams in Havana (Hosp M Fajardo, Municip Plaza)

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Update: Thought I'd share our medical exam appointment/process that was done prior to my husband's scheduled interview for 10/7/13.

Printed out the instructions letter that was email to us both containing the official date of the interview. Arrived on Monday morning 9/16/13 at 8:30 a.m. to the hospital (Fajardo). Waited until Reception opened at 9:00 a.m. My husband asked if he could schedule his medical exam since he recently received an interview date of a little less than 3 weeks out. Although dificult that person pulled up their Wed exam date for individuals that are migrating. She said we were very fortunately that there was an opening for 9/18/13 that same week. So they took his information down confirmed that he needed to bring his medical exam check $$ the day of the exam, etc. I was shocked. I have heard so many stories about couples not being able to schedule ahead of their interview and/or worse having to "pay" a little extra to expedite this process. None of that occured. I think we happened to find a spot and someone that was just plain cool. This person also instructed my husband not to have any thing for breakfast so not to skew the full blood work done on all patients. This was news to me since I thought they checked for other type of maladies. So really NOTICE for you all out there doing med exams in Cuba. They actually want you to fast before coming in. Failure to do so will delay your results as they will have you do a re take of your blood exam. Go figure.

The morning of the exam Wed 10/18/13 we arrived at the 8:30 a.m. by 9 a.m. they had issued numbers to all patients. You basically go through 8 or 9 specialties, urology, ophthalmology, xrays, blood work, etc. All was said and done by 12:30 p.m. that day. He was told to come back along with everyone else there that morning on October 3rd.

Hope this helps.