Canada Ireland healthcare

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Can anyone tell me if canada and Ireland have a reciprocal healthcare agreement? I'm here visiting and got sick, I have an Irish passport. Will that provide reciprocal healthcare. I know the uk and canada don't.

I've just googled this & found this link which suggests not, but it says each province has different rules so it might depend where you are.

www.canadainternational.gc.ca/ireland-irlande/experience_canada_experience/guide/health_care-soins_de_sante.

Hope you are feeling a bit better.

No. I've never heard of such a thing in Canada.

But I hope you can get this sorted and feel better.

Thank you guys! I hope they do. Can anyone suggest where I might find out more?

Is it a hospital visit sickness or doctors? Depending where you are you'll need a walk in clinic. When we moved there on a work permit, we even needed the first 3mths covered by travel insurance before we were eligible to use the system in canada even though we were paying for it. I doubt very much as a tourist you will be able to access on reciprocal care. They don't even have that agreement with the US from what I've heard from friends there.

Which province are you in? Here in Alberta the rules for eligibility are as follows:

Legally entitled to be or to remain in Canada and makes his/her permanent home in Alberta;
Committed to being physically present in Alberta for at least 183 days in a 12 month period;
Not claiming residency or obtaining benefits under a claim of residency in another province, territory or country;
Any other person deemed by the regulations to be a resident not including a tourist, transient or visitor to Alberta.

Hey I'm in British Columbia or Vancouver whichever is easiest, and I meant hospital care. It was a nurse who mentioned it to me but I didn't get a chance to ask anything more.

The above applies to hospital care. If you don't have insurance you'll have to pay for it yourself.

Looks like the same applies in BC www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/infoben/eligible.html#who

No, you are not going to be covered here (BC). Do you not have any travel insurance??

To add...Canada has no reciprocal healthcare agreements with any countries, so I'm not sure what that nurse is confused about. There are reciprocal agreements between provinces, but that's all...and even then, I think Quebec is different as usual