sillydoll
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:
A friend who is walking the meseta got a really bad tummy bug. She writes about her illness and of another pilgrim with the same bug:
"... later that morning he was so sick they had to call a doctor because he could not even stand up. I could just get up and bobble about and was thus forced to leave the refugio at 9h30. The centro de salud ( health centre) wanted to charge me 73 Euros, that is around R730 to see a GP. Not being a member of the EU, that is what you pay. Treatment for pilgrims is certainly NOT free. The pharmacy could not help much either."
"... later that morning he was so sick they had to call a doctor because he could not even stand up. I could just get up and bobble about and was thus forced to leave the refugio at 9h30. The centro de salud ( health centre) wanted to charge me 73 Euros, that is around R730 to see a GP. Not being a member of the EU, that is what you pay. Treatment for pilgrims is certainly NOT free. The pharmacy could not help much either."