UTA Student Info Site

NOTE : VACCINATION IS NOT REQUIREMENT OF UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON OR INS, HOWEVER UTA INTERNATIONAL OFFICE (IO) WILL WANT YOU TO HAVE TB TEST DONE OVER HERE AS PER THE IO RULES.

You will have to buy medical insurance here, but medication is very expensive here, so, get some medicines that you have used for minor ailments and any special ones that you need. Also health insurance may not cover the costs of:
• Routine Dental work
• Eye glasses
• Vision exams
• Emergency room visits for non-emergencies


So get a complete medical checkup done before getting here, including a chest X-ray. Check out following :
a) Dental
b) Fresh Body checkup, especially if you have a major ailment and get prescriptions & medicines for all common ailments
(the technical name of the medicine along with Indian/US brand name)
c) Get your eye-sight checked - get a new prescription.
Buy atleast one extra pair of glasses.
d) Get requisite immunization done (especially MMR)

List of medicines recommended by a Doctor.
• Crocin tablets - 3 strips (For fever, bodyaches, headache, One tablet three times a day)
• Erythrocin 500mg tablets - 2 strips (One tablet twice a day)
• Sporadix 500mg capsules - 2 strips (One capsule twice a day)
• Actified tablets - 3 strips
• Cosovil tablets - 2 strips (For common cold & cough.One tablet three times a day.)
• Avomin tablets - 1 strip (For air sickness. One tablet if necessary.)
• Lomotil tablets - 20
• Digene tablets - 30 (For diarrhoea & stomach discomfort, One tablet of each three times a day)
• Baralgam tablets - 2 strips (For abdominal colic pain, backache, etc One tablet every six hours as necessary)
• Dorstal (?) tablets - 10 (For nausea & vomiting, One tablet three times a day)
• Electral powder - 2 packets (One teaspoonful mixed with drinks to make up loss of electrolytes after vomiting or diarrhoea)
• Novalgin tablets - 2 strips (For headache & bodyaches. One tablet)
• Stomatil tablets - 1 strip (For vertigo (giddiness) One tablet three times a day as necessary till relieved)
• Isogel (Glaxo) - 1 box (For constipation. One teaspoonful in a little of water at bedtime)
• Brufen 600mg tablets - 2 strips (For arthritic joint pains, One tablet three times a day after food)
• Avil tablets - 1 strip (For allergy, One tablet as necessary)
• Sepmax tablets - 1 strip (For sore-throat, One tablet twice a day after food, till relieved. NOT TO BE TAKEN WHEN ONE IS ALLERGIC TO SULFA DRUGS)
• Relaxyl ointment - 1 tube (To be applied as a pain balm)
• Band Aids assorted - 12
• Soframycin skin ointment - 1 tube