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The illnesses, treatments and surgeries covered

Alzheimer's disease – resulting in permanent symptoms

Aorta graft surgery – for disease or injury

Aplastic anaemia – with permanent bone marrow failure

Bacterial meningitis – resulting in permanent symptoms

Benign brain tumour – resulting in permanent symptoms

Blindness – permanent and irreversible

Cancer – excluding less advanced cases

Cardiomyopathy – of specified severity

Coma – resulting in permanent symptoms

Coronary artery bypass grafts – with surgery to divide the breastbone

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – resulting in permanent symptoms

Deafness – permanent and irreversible

Heart attack – of specified severity

Heart valve replacement or repair

HIV infection – caught in the UK from a blood transfusion, a physical assault or at work

Kidney failure – requiring dialysis

Liver failure – of advanced stage

Loss of independent existence – permanent and irreversible

Loss of hands or feet – permanent physical severance

Loss of speech – permanent and irreversible

Major organ transplant

Motor neurone disease – resulting in permanent symptoms

Multiple sclerosis – with persisting symptoms

Paralysis of limbs – total and irreversible

Parkinson's disease – resulting in permanent symptoms

Pre-senile dementia – resulting in permanent symptoms

Progressive supranuclear palsy – resulting in permanent symptoms

Stroke – resulting in permanent symptoms

Terminal illness

Third-degree burns – covering 20% of the body's surface area

Traumatic head injury – resulting in permanent symptoms

These headings are only a guide to what is covered. You can find full details of these in our brochure your guide to the illnesses covered by skandia protect. Please tell your financial adviser if you would like a copy.

 

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