International SOS (for UT Dallas Foreign Travel)
International travelers, you have a friend watching over you!
International SOS provides UT System travelers and expatriates with worldwide quality medical care and emergency assistance services 24 hours per day. Although this service does not take the place of your health insurance, in the case of an emergency it does provide medical assistance, security and travel assistance, managed and administered by International SOS. International SOS is the world's largest medical and security assistance company, with more than 3,000 professionals in 24-hour Alarm Centers, international clinics and remote-site medical facilities across five continents. International SOS is the leader in their field, ready to help you with all of your medical and security needs.
Some of the program benefits include:
- Emergency evacuation
- Medically-supervised repatriation
- Repatriation of mortal remains
- Return home of minor children
- Medical and dental referrals
- Outpatient medical expense guarantee and payment
- Legal referrals
- Lost document advice
- Security evacuation assistance
- Access to security crisis center
This service presently is provided free of charge to UT Dallas international travelers. IF YOU BOOK INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL THROUGH UTD'S OFFICIAL TRAVEL AGENT, THEY WILL ENROLL YOU IN THIS SERVICE AUTOMATICALLY!
For complete information regarding this service, which is free to the UTD employed traveler, please log on to:
http://www.internationalsos.com/private/utexas/
You may also contact your UT Dallas Travel Mgmt office (travel@utdallas.edu) for further information and to obtain a SOS travel card.
The University of Texas at Dallas Procurement Management is committed to obtaining in a timely, lawful and cost-efficient manner the goods and services needed to benefit the University's mission: to provide educational and research programs of the highest quality.
