Local foods, food-safety habits, hospital daily life, travel during treatment, the health system, language and emergency numbers from reliable sources.
Keep a translation of your diagnosis, treatment plan and medication list in this language or in English. Many hospitals offer interpreters — ask in advance.
Health system overview
A state universal healthcare programme covers citizens. Medical facilities are available in Tbilisi but can be expensive; outside the capital they are limited. Visitors pay for treatment themselves or through insurance.
Leukemia care: centres
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Main centres
Caucasus Medical Center, Tbilisi
New Hospitals, Tbilisi
Tbilisi State Medical University and Ingorokva High Medical Technologies University Clinic
Iashvili Children’s Central Hospital, Tbilisi (children’s onco-hematology)
Transplant: According to the EU Agency for Asylum (2026), the first three clinics are the national centres authorised to perform stem cell transplants; the state programme covers autologous, allogeneic and haploidentical transplants up to set limits.
Good to know: Residents of Tbilisi and Adjara are covered through local programmes. Children under 18 with blood cancers can also be treated abroad, at partner clinics in Israel, Spain and Turkey, under a state referral programme.
Wherever you live, the core rules with low immunity are the same: clean hands, keeping raw and cooked food apart, cooking thoroughly, chilling quickly and choosing pasteurised dairy. At local markets and street stalls, watch how food is stored. Ask your team whether tap water is fine for you; if unsure, use bottled or boiled water.
Hospital daily life
In many hospitals in this region a family member stays with the patient to help with daily care, and families often bring food from home. With low immunity, agree with the ward which food can be brought and how it should be prepared and stored. Fewer visitors, and none who are unwell, lowers the risk of infection.
Travel during treatment
Talk to your care team before planning a trip — timing, blood counts and vaccines.
Carry a doctor’s letter with your diagnosis, treatment plan and medication list (including in English).
Pack medicines in original packaging, in hand luggage, with extra; some medicines have import rules.
Get travel insurance that covers your existing condition and read the terms.
Find the nearest haematology centre and the emergency number at your destination in advance.
Live vaccines can be unsafe during treatment — ask your team before any vaccination.
Ask your team about clot risk on long flights and move around when you can.
