| Now a days medical field has spread its wing by | | | | captured, to make big contributions to the |
| offering overseas treatments at much reasonable | | | | Nation’s GDP. The following will show a some |
| costs for everyone to take benefits of. There are a | | | | valid points by the way of expert’s questions vs. |
| lot of discussion going around the globe to see if | | | | opinions offered, current status available with future |
| there are benefits of medical tourism. Well, today we | | | | projections and a some suggestions for making top |
| are going to take a peek in some of these benefits | | | | use of medical tourism towards the development of |
| for us while considering any kind of medical tourism. | | | | the nation’s economic prosperity. |
| Medical tourism in simple term is a travel abroad to | | | | The offers available now a days for similar patients |
| undergo any medical treatment that you would | | | | are specialized services ranging from cardiology and |
| otherwise find either very costly in the your country | | | | cardiac surgery (angioplasty, bypass, valve |
| or not as well equipped with the recent technology | | | | replacement), to oncology and onco-surgery, organ |
| as the country you are traveling to receive that | | | | transplants (liver and kidney), bone marrow |
| treatment. So if for example, you are from U.S.. and | | | | transplants, joint replacements, eye surgery and |
| it costs you as an example GBP 20000 for an eye | | | | in-vitro fertilization. The price difference is significant, |
| surgery, the same may be done say for example in | | | | as that was for Marshall, for the patients. |
| India for the total sum of GBP 9000 which will not | | | | Medical tourism is now a days attracting people from |
| only include the surgery and hospital fees but also | | | | all over the world, from countries with comparatively |
| include accommodation, follow ups and a holiday feel | | | | poor healthcare infrastructures and, in case of the |
| all in one. This is why so many people today are | | | | US, places with exorbitantly expensive health care |
| attracted to this unique concept. | | | | services. |
| Thus there are many benefits for Medical Tourism. | | | | Medical tourists from US are generally those seeking |
| now for the patients who would like to undergo any | | | | procedures not covered by their insurers, those |
| kind of surgical treatment. Medical tourism gives | | | | seeking required procedures and who are provided |
| everyone the opportunity to get best quality of | | | | with incentives to find lower cost options, and those |
| medical treatments at lower costs. Although the | | | | who cannot get medical insurance where they |
| costs certainly is the main benefit of medical tourism, | | | | depend on the procedures and the physicians. |
| the other attraction is the fact that other countries | | | | Cosmetic surgery are locally found in South America, |
| might perform certain treatments that are not | | | | while complex heart and orthopedic surgery are |
| available or are restricted in the country of their | | | | found in India, Thailand and Singapore, and specialized |
| origin. And while vacation might not be the goal here, | | | | in-vitro fertilization may be found in South Africa, |
| people certainly want to recuperate from any | | | | Israel and Spain. |
| treatment while holidaying in their preferred places. | | | | In the global medical tourism services, from cosmetic |
| There are lots of countries that offer such packages | | | | surgery to complex oncology, bargain prices may be |
| like India, Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, etc. | | | | found at a medical centre somewhere in the globe. |
| After information Technology (IT) and Information | | | | Time and money provide the incentives for seeking |
| Technology Enabled Services (IEES), which are now | | | | healthcare outside the nation. In the case of general |
| good contributors to our Nation’s GDP, the next | | | | public health services with long delays, such as Britain, |
| great thing happening could be ‘Medical | | | | time is the motivation. |
| tourism’, which has numerous potential, if rightly | | | | |