Medical Tourism In India
India is known in particular for heart surgery, hip resurfacing
and other advanced areas of medicine. The government and private
hospital groups are committed to the goal of making India
a leader in the industry. The main attraction of the industry
is low-cost treatment. Most estimates of the cost of processing
claims from India begin at about one tenth of the price of
comparable treatment in America or in Britain. India is fast
becoming a destination of choice for American citizens seeking
complicated, high-end medical procedures. Estimates of the
value of medical tourism in India go as high as $ 2 billion
per year by 2012. The Indian government is taking steps to
address infrastructure issues that hinder the growth of the
country in medical tourism.
The south of the Indian city of Chennai in India was declared
capital of the health, as the nets in 45% of health tourists
abroad, and 30-40% of the national health tourists. Dental
care also took into India, coupled with the stay of tourists
in cities like Udaipur with great check-up and complicated
procedures. Doctors say that in india, the West Bank could
be greener. But in a growing number of foreign patients to
india, hospitals are becoming indian their first choice. Over
1.5 lakh medical tourists visited India in 2002 alone, bringing
gains of $ 300 million. Since then, the number of Tourist's
has been increased to 25% annually. A CII-McKinsey report
says that the income through projects of medical tourism will
go up to $ 2 billion by 2012.
Most patients have visited India are countries of the SAARC,
but an increasing number of NRIs settled in the United States
and the United Kingdom have also been use of health care services
in India.
The Planning Commission holds a superior quality of medical
services coupled with the low cost of surgeries responsible
for one of the most attractive destinations for travel medical
value. In his most recent high-level report, the committee
made a comparison of costs of various medical procedures.
Distributed by the Planning Commission Vice-Chairman Montek
Singh Ahluwalia, on Wednesday, the report found that, if a
coronary bypass surgery would cost a patient $ 6000 in India,
the same operation would cost $ 7894 a person in Thailand,
Singapore, $ 10417 , $ 23938 in the United States and $ 19700
in Britain.
Surgery replacement heart valve would cost $ 10000 patients
in Thailand, Singapore, $ 12500, $ 200000 in the United States
and $ 90000 in Britain. In India, it costs only $ 8,000. Although
the bone marrow transplant would cost $ 30000 in India, doctors
in the United States would pay anywhere between $ 250000-400000
while those from Britain would pay $ 150000. A plastic surgery
would cost $ 3500 in Thailand, 20000 dollars in the United
States and $ 10000 in Britain. But in India, it costs only
$ 2,000.
Tourism in a ledc
Tourism in a LEDC may have various problems associated with
it. Tourism is often considered by governments in LEDCs as
a vital source of income that can be used for development.
aiims edu
All-India Institute of Medical Sciences was established as
an institution of national importance by an Act of Parliament
with the aim of developing education in the cycle models and
post-graduate medical education in all its branches so as
to demonstrate a high level of medical education in India
to bring together in one place educational institutions of
the utmost importance to the training of personnel in all
major sectors of health activity, and to achieve self-sufficiency
in countries in post-graduate medical education.
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