Unless you have contacted our assistance partner, you should pay for the costs for the examinations and treatment yourself. You will need to buy the medication from the pharmacy. If you have the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) from your European home country’s authorities and you go to a public hospital in Europe, show the card at the hospital and you will get the treatment for the local price. Only examinations and treatment prescribed by a physician and performed by a health care professional are compensated. Treatment must be necessary, based on medical evidence and in accordance with generally accepted medical knowledge, for the examination or treatment of the travel accident or illness in question.