Health Tourism News

If you are living in US and trying to get a medical report for a scanning, you may possibly be asked to wait for 4 days or more.  Waiting lists had forced patients in the US to postpone medical treatment.  Of late, even the initial step of getting a medical report is getting delayed and [...]

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Earlier, wealthy citizens of developing countries used to visit developed countries like U.S and Europe to gain access to advanced medical care.  Of late, the ‘Medical Tourism’ wave seems to have reversed this trend.  It is now the Western patient’s turn to travel offshore for First-World healthcare at Third-world prices.
It all began about a decade [...]

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India is one of the most sought after destinations for medical tourism.  In the year 2004, some 150,000 medical tourists from UK, US, Middle East and other foreign countries visited India seeking medical care in Indian hospitals.  Since then, medical tourism in India has been growing at the rate of 20% per annum.  Medical tourism [...]

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The Medical Tourism industry earned global revenues of USD 20 billion in 2005 and the Asian market comprising countries like India, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia stood at approximately USD 2.5 billion in 2006. While the global market is predicted to double in size to USD 40 billion a year by 2010, it is estimated that [...]

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