Finish these before the flight
| Topic | What to confirm | Who owns it |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | Rule that matches the passport | Immigration sources |
| Slot | Written campus and time | The facility |
| Papers and medicines | Packed in the cabin bag | You |
| Ground plan | Hotel and a movable transfer | You or a coordination quote |
Finish entry, records, medicines, and a written appointment before you treat the flight as fixed. Then leave a buffer night.
What should be finished before we go to the airport?
Work through the other guides rather than a single vague list. Visas and entry, records, medicines, and insurance questions each have a job. This page is the order: do not fly on a verbal hospital slot.
Print the appointment email, the hotel name, and the campus address in Chinese on one sheet a driver can hold. Put the same sheet in the companion’s bag. Charge a power bank. Mainland sockets differ from many home plugs; bring an adapter you have already tested.
The trip planner is a worksheet for destination, dates, provider-confirmed slots, accommodation, and a companion. It is not a symptom checker and it does not book the hospital. Use it if a form helps you see gaps. A buffer night in the arrival city is a travel habit, not a clinical order. If your clinician named a longer rest, use their number.
Tell a person at home the hotel and the international desk number. Leave them a copy of the non-clinical itinerary. Do not leave them the only copy of a disc password that you also need at the hospital.
What to write down
- Entry rule checked for every passport on the trip
- Written appointment with campus address in Chinese
- Records packed the way the facility asked
- Medicines in the cabin bag with the letter
- Insurer reply, if you needed one
- Hotel and transfer that can move by a day
- Someone at home has the hotel name
Related coordination
These links leave the travel-guide article for the medical desk or for a sibling guide. They do not replace the primary sources below.
Sources and last review
Last reviewed 28 October 2026. Immigration rules, customs notices, hospital instructions, and insurance letters change. Read the primary source for your passport and your facility. Counsel, the facility, and any supplier have not signed this page.
Ways to sequence the preparation
These are preparation steps, not a clinical timetable and not a fixed tour departure.
Close entry and the slot
Time fit: First
If either is open, the rest of the list can wait.
- Pre-departure checklist
- Close entry and the slot
Why choose it: If either is open, the rest of the list can wait.
Pack the cabin bag
Time fit: The day before
Passport, confirmation, records, medicines, Chinese address card.
- Pre-departure checklist
- Pack the cabin bag
Why choose it: Passport, confirmation, records, medicines, Chinese address card.
Leave a buffer
Time fit: Arrival
Sleep before the first desk. Do not schedule the appointment against the landing time.
- Pre-departure checklist
- Leave a buffer
Why choose it: Sleep before the first desk. Do not schedule the appointment against the landing time.
Ask the owner of the fact
Use the primary source and the facility before you treat this article as permission to travel or to receive care.
Related planning
Questions people ask
- No. It is travel preparation. Your clinician decides whether you should fly.
- No. It is optional. The appointment email and this list are enough to see what is missing.
- At least do not put the appointment on the landing day if the transfer is long. If a clinician wrote a number, use that.
- If it is entry permission or a written slot, wait. If it is a spare adapter, solve it in the arrival city.
Talk to the medical desk
The medical desk coordinates logistics after a facility has its own plan. It does not diagnose, quote a treatment, or decide entry.
