Can a Visiting Japanese person go to a hospital in England and be treated?
Your friend does not require emergency treatment so need not visit a hospital. Any chemist will advise her on over the counter remedies for her cold. She will need a doctor’s prescription for antibiotics and the chemist should also be able to advise her where she can find a doctor who will examine her and prescribe them, if necessary. She will have to pay a fee which she should re-claim on her travel insurance. Should your friend need emergency treatment then she can go to a hospital and will be given emergency treatment. I doubt that a simple cold will turn into an emergency if your friend is normally healthy and going into a hospital with a cold which could be passed on to other people will not be appreciated. A visit to the local chemist. Should be first on her list, there are plenty of drugs they can sell her to make her symptoms less troublesome and the body usually kills off a cold virus in under a week. There is no quick fix cure for a cold anyway.
