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About Medical Tourism in India

Medical tourism can be generally defined as provision of 'cost effective'personal health care in association with the tourism industry for

patients needing surgical healthcare and other forms of dedicatedtreatment.

This process is being facilitated by the corporate sector concerned inhealth care as well as the tourism industry - both personal and public.

Medical or Health treatment package tourism has become a recurrentform of vacationing, and covers a broad range of medical services. Itmingles free time, amusing and recreation together with wellness andhealthcare packages.

The thought of the health holiday is to offer you and chance to getaway from your daily habitual and come into a dissimilar calmingneighboring. Here you can take pleasure in being close to the beach andthe mountains.

At the same time you are able to accept a compass reading that willassist you advance your life in terms of your health and general wellbeing. It is like reconstruction and cleans up process on all levels -

physical, psychological and expressive

Many people from the urbanized world come to India for the upgradingpromised by yoga and Ayurvedic massage, but few consider it a targetfor hip substitute or brain surgical procedure. However, a nice blend oftop-class medical expertise at attractive prices is helping a risingnumber of Indian corporate hospitals attract foreign patients, includingfrom developed nations such as the UK and the US.

As more and more patients from Europe, the US and other well heelednations with high Medicare package costs look for effectual options;India is rutted against Thailand, Singapore and some other Asiancountries, which have good hospitals, salubrious climate and visitordestinations.


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While Thailand and Singapore with their advanced medical amenitiesand built-in medical tourism options have been drawing foreignpatients of the order of a couple of lakhs per annum, the quicklygrowing Indian corporate hospital sector has been able to get a little

thousands for cure.

But, things are going to change radically in favor of India, particularlyin view of the high eminence expertise of medical professionals,backed by the fast improving tools and nursing amenities, and aboveall, the cost-effectiveness of the pack up.

Medical Treatment cost Difference

Important cost difference subsist between U.K. and India when it

comes to medical treatment tourism packages.

Every year innumerable number of alien visitors from different parts ofthe world visits India for its historical escapade.

Moreover, many a time some of them fall ill as illness knows no place.India is not only cheaper in respect of medical treatment packages butthe waiting time is almost zero


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This is due to the explosion of the private sector, which comprises ofhospitals and clinics with the up-to-the-minute technology and bestpractitioners.

Procedure Charges in India & US (US $):Procedure Cost (US$)United States India


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Here is a brief comparison of the cost of few of the Dental care packageprocedures between USA and India

Dental procedure Cost in US ($) Cost in India ($)General Dentist Top End Dentist Top End Dentist

Smile designing 8000 1000 -Metal Free Bridge 5000 500Dental Implants 3500 800Porcelain Metal Bridge 3000 1800 300Porcelain Metal Crown 1000 600 80Tooth impactions 2000 500 100Root canal Treatment 1000 600 100Tooth whitening 800 350 110Tooth colored composite fillings 500 200 25Tooth cleaning 300 100 75

These costs are a standard and might not have been the real cost to beincurred.

Robert Walter Beeney was not competent to walk due to a stiff hipwhen he landed in India January 24. Twenty days afterward, he notonly improved after a atypical hip substitution surgery at ApolloHospital here but also visited the famous Taj Mahal in Agra after that.

So India is now becoming well known for its medical tourism.

The 64-year-old real estate expert from San Francisco underwentflourishing surface substitution surgery using the anatomic surfacereplacement (ASR) hip system January 27, purportedly becoming thefirst US national to come to India for the cure.


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A medical team of doctors, headed by orthopaedic surgery treatmentspecialist Vijay Bose, sustained the procedure for Beeney.

Jayaramchander Pingle, a member of the medical team, told a news

seminar that while in the usual hip replacement surgery, the total hipwas replaced, in the new system, the patient's unique head and neck offemur were conserved and only their surface is replaced with metal onmetal enunciation.

All these depict that India is now emerging as a medical treatment

hub also.

Hospitals for Treatment in India

For last few years India has been depicting its proficiency in medicaltreatment packages. The major USP of medical tourism India is itscutthroat price of the treatment packages.

The visitors can get world class treatment services at their expediency


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at cost which is 30% to 70% less as weighed against the cost oftreatment in USA or Thailand.

The medical packages range from health check up packages to posh

heart surgery packages.

Moreover, the uses of radioactive isotopes and scanning throughGamma camera have added matchless features to Medical TourismIndia. Some of the leading hospitals and their forte areas are discussedbelow.

Andromeda Andrology Centre -

centre for impotence, infertility, sex change, sex disarray

Apollo Family Health Plan -managed care provider run through Apollo Hospitals.

Apollo Hospitals -Center of superiority in Healthcare.

B M Birla Heart Research Centre -Heart care and surgery packages are prodived with a difference.

Belle Vue Clinic -Calcutta's leading medical treatment package institute.

Bhatia General Hospital (MRI Centre) -information on MRI with an emphasis on teaching files.Brahmaputra Hospitals Limited

Calcutta Medical Research Institute -leading hospital


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Charakas Ayurveda Nursing Home -an Ayurvedic specialty hospital & health spa in Thodupuzha, Idukki

Choithram Hospital-It is a complete institution for care of whole society.

Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA) -It mainly works to alleviate the suffering of the underprivileged andneedy cancer patients by providing total management of the ailment.

Down Town Hospital -a well outfitted hospital in Guwahati, Assam

Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital -offers ophthalmic care package, probe into and education.

Jilla Hospital -

offers contemporary amenities, also have guidance amenities.

Emmanuel Hospital Association -working together to form a network of christian hospitals and healthcheck up packages throughout North India.

Escorts Heart Research Institute -

provides cardiac care packages to patients

Hindu Mission HospitalIt is a charitable trust hospital in Chennai.


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Indo-American Cardiovascular CentreIt provides world class cardiovascular heed.Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi

Institute of Cardio-vascular ailment

Institute of Dental & Orthodontic Radiography -computerized facial correction & orthognathic surgery packageK.G. Hospital, Coimbatore

King Edward Memorial Hospital -information about the hospital in Mumbai

Lifeline Group of Hospitals -provide health services & medical facilities in Calcutta

M.V.Diabetes Specialities Centre (P) Ltd. -provide all-inclusive and entire diabetic care.

MIOT HospitalIt is a leading centre in orthopaedics surgery package and traumatologyin India.

Mansarovar Eye Hospital, Lucknow -Well outfitted eye research centre

Neeraj Clinic -a hospital devoted to treatment of epileptic patients

PVS Memorial Hospital


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Shantiniketan Nature Cure Hospital -offers naturopathy treatment, drugless therapy etc.Shusrusha Nursing Home Private limited

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital -It is a modern, multi-specialty, private hospital.

Specialty Ranbaxy limited -provide cost-effective, diagnostically insightful, medical services.

Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology -leading heart care package hospital in Bangalore

Surya Medical Trust Burns Centre,Pune -hospital for burns patients and research in burns areas

Suyash Hospital -

well outfitted hospital in Indore with contemporary medical treatmentpackages.

The Advanced Medicare Research Institute -This hospital is situated in Calcutta.

The Eye Research Foundation -

enthusiastic in providing eye care services

Vardaan Hospital and Medical Research Centre -a multi-disciplinary treatment package hospital in New Delhi

Vellore Hospital


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Vimhans -health care services for people suffering from brain and backboneailment.

Wockhardt Hospital And Heart InstituteIt provides heart care package to patients of all age groups.

Woodlands Hospital and Medical Research Institute -leading hospital and research institute positioned at Calcutta..

Medical Treatment & Surgery in India


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Every year innumerable number of visitors from every corner of themap stream in India to respond to the call of inner sole, every calendaryear.

An authentic source depicts soaring growth of the tourism industry inIndia.

The swirl in this specific field is not merely the aftermath of theattraction of historical escapade of the country.

Medical treatment packages and their cost effectiveness is the keyfactor that makes India the health check up magnet in the map of globalmedical science.

Once in India you can be rest assured about your proper diagnosis andmedication. Furthermore, if situation demands, surgery packages arealso within your reach. Medical Treatment in India is amid the best inthe world, facilitated by the most skilled doctors and up to the minutesuper sphere hospitals of India.

The super specialty hospitals are the best in the world, offeringtreatments ranging from cardiology to cosmetic surgery packages.

The Indraprastha Apollo Group of Hospitals is one of the mostexcellent in India, offering treatments ranging from ENT to neurosurgery packages to ophthalmology treatment packages to cancertreatment As the Official Healthcare Facilitator for Apollo Hospital.

The other super specialty hospitals in India, from the Escorts HeartInstitute that offers brilliant cardiac surgery packages, to the LV PrasadEye Institute, famous for its proficiency in ophthalmology, alsoaugment India's status as the foremost medical treatment tour

destination in the world.

The medical treatments packages obtainable in India follow all medicaland legal guidelines, making your India medical tour comfortable andeasy, and causing you the least difficulty.


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Add to that the outstanding pre and postoperative care that the medicaltour to India packages offer and you know why India is a clear winnerwhen it comes to choosing a medical tour destination.

Apart from the surgical and allopathic medical treatments to be had inIndia, there are also abundant Ayurveda Resorts and Luxury Spa inIndia that offer medical tour packages for Alternative medicine inIndia. So if you are looking for substitute therapies, contact MedicalTour to India to choose a Wellness Holidays in India package that suitsyou.

Medical Treatment packages obtainable in India

Cardiology Cosmetic Surgery package Dental care package Orthopedics Neuro and Spine Surgical package

Spinal Fusion, Decompression and Arthroplasty Ophthalmology

Transplant Surgery packages for Urology

Oncology Minimally Invasive Surgery package Infertility Treatment Surgery Telemedicine

The medical treatment tourism India has depicted a massive growth ininfrastructure in the private and voluntary sector.

The private sector, which was very unpretentious in the early stages,has now become an affluent industry prepared with the most modernstate-of-the-art technology at its disposal.

It is expected that 75-80 percent of healthcare services and investmentsin India are now provided by the private sector.

In addition to that India has one of the largest pharmaceutical industriesin the world.


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It is self-sufficient and self- reliant in drug production and exportsdrugs to more than 180 countries.

Using the latest technical apparatus and the services of highly expert

medical personnel, these hospitals are in a position to provide aspectrum of general as well as specialist's services.

These services are offered at awfully cutthroat prices; cheering patientsnot only from developing countries but even from a number ofdeveloped ones to come to India for medical treatment packages.

Amidst varied general and specialty medical treatment packages thenoteworthy packages are as beneath-

1. Bone Marrow Transplant2. Cardiac Care and surgery package3.

Cosmetic Surgery package4. Dialysis and Kidney Transplant package5.Gynaecology & Obstetrics6. Healthcare facilities7. Joint Replacement Surgery package8. Neuro-surgery & Trauma Surgery treatment package9. Osteoporosis medical treatment package10. Refractive Surgery package11. Urology

12. Vascular Surgery package13. Dental care medical package

As far as the cost of medical treatment packages are concerned, Indiaoffer the most competitive treatment package price to the world with itsup- to- the- minute medical devices. The prices of different


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pathological tests range from Rs.50 to 3000. And that depends upon thenature of the test.

Now, the specialty hospitals are using Nuclear medicines for treatment.

Here radioactive isotopes are injected or administered orally and that isagain scanned by sophisticated Gamma camera. So for high qualitytreatment at lowest possible cost one must select India as his medicaltreatment destination.

- Hospitals in New Delhi

Indraprastha Medical Corporation

Indraprastha Medical Corporation in Delhi is among the many feathersin India's cap. It is India's first corporate hospital and the third largestcorporate hospital outside the USA. It is recognized as a centre ofexcellence by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Governmentof India and by the Royal College of Radiologists, UK for training forthe first and final fellowship examinations.

A.I.I.M.S. -

AIIMS' contribution in the fields of medical education, research andspecialized treatment is widely acknowledged. The main object of theinstitute is to demonstrate high standard of medical education, trainingof personnel and conduct experiments and research in variousdisciplines of medical sciences.

The Escorts Hospital -

The Escorts Hospital and Research Centre Limited (EHRCL) atFaridabad is a 150-bed facility providing a whole gamut of specializedmedical services. The hospital is reputed for tertiary care services suchas cardiology, neurology, neurosurgery, plastic surgery and urology


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Why Choose India for medical Treatment

India has been the most attractive destination for the visitors around theglob.

But the recent trend in the tourism sector shows a propelling growth inthe travel & tourism industry.

Now the question arises, why should people rush India for treatment?

The simple equation is that the medical treatment package price inIndia is 35% to 40% lesser than the treatment cost in USA or Thailand.

A patient can travel India once in the same cost with the excellencehealth care treatment in India. So this is the best alternative availableparticularly for foreigners to travel India with complete medicaltreatment. Offering surgery in India with the 30% discount India hasgot the benefit of English speaking populace.

So there would not be any problem in making out and addressing thequandary due to the language difference.

Not just because of the discount but the superiority concern also.

India has got the specialist in around the world and in India as well andalso has got the world eminent doctors & hospitals where all theservices are provided to the patients. So when you can get the besthealth care in India then why not opt for India as the destination formedical treatment tourism. A number of specialty hospitals in India are-

The tale does not cease here. In India the use of radioactive isotopes insmall quantities and scanning of the same through the sophisticatedGamma camera has uplifted the standing of India in the medical carecommunity of the world.


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STEPS TO START YOUR OWN MEDICAL TOURISM

COMPANY

I. Write a business plan. Determine how many customers you canfeasibly handle while giving top-quality service to each of them,and what prices you'll need to charge in order to cover your costsand make a profit. Your planning should also let you knowwhether you need to obtain funding to cover the cost of offices or

insurance until your business is profitable. Get feedback on yourbusiness plan from seasoned entrepreneurs or travel agents, or thevolunteer counselors at the Service Corps of Retired Executives.

II. Obtain certification as a travel agent or agency from your state ifnecessary. Each state has a different licensing requirement socheck with your state's website or department of licensing. In

areas where there are no licensing requirements, you may stillneed to have formal training in order to be considered a reputabletravel agent, and professional liability insurance is a must.

III. Determine which areas and hospitals will offer the highest qualitymedical care at a significant cost savings from those in your area.You should spend significant time researching the qualifications

of various hospitals, and may even want to travel to themyourself in order to verify the credentials of the medical facilityand staff. Select hospitals that you would be comfortable at foryour own triple bypass, and develop relationships with theirfinancial and admissions offices.


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IV. Investigate accommodations, private nursing services and gentleactivities such as nature walks or beaches to lie on in the area ofthe medical clinics you'll be working with. Make sure thefacilities are clean, comfortable and handicap-accessible, and

within a very short distance of the hospital or clinic.

V. Market your business. You may wish to target small employersthat are self-insured, or the uninsured or underinsured who mustpay substantial costs out-of-pocket. Additionally, primary caredoctors that feel they can trust you to ensure a good continuity ofcare for your patients might be an excellent source of referrals.


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GOVERNMENT POLICES PROMOTING MEDICAL

TOURISM:

Medical Tourism Policy Free Trade (for Doctors)Americans today are of the view that "If physicians really cared

about our health, they'd drop their iron wall against immigrant

doctors." 'National policy on medical tourism is the need of the hour'

As per a CII-McKinsey report, medical tourism to India isexpected to bring about a revenue of over $2 billion by 2012. Acomprehensive medical tourism policy and global informationbooths are essential to propagate this demand.

By 2020, Tourism in India could contribute Rs 8,50,000 crores tothe GDPThe Indian Government is extending all possible help toencourage the growth of medical tourism industry.

Kerala Promoting Medical Tourism to Gain InternationalRecognitionKerala is all set to become an international medical tourismdestination

Free Trade (in Doctors)Americans today are of the view that "If physicians really caredabout our health, they'd drop their iron wall against immigrant

doctors."The people of San Francisco believe that while thesalaries of US physicians would be curtailed, it is definitely abetter idea for overseas doctors to become licensed practitionersin the US, while still within the confines of their own homecountry. The idea behind this would be to have cheaper medicalcare at all times, thereby making healthcare available to all,irrespective of cost.

Already, doctors from the developing countries attend tocountless number of patients from the developed countries, aphenomenon that fosters those countries' access to good healthcare. About a dozen countries, including India are global havensfor medical tourism and it has been mentioned that rather thanpeople having to travel overseas to have their medical needs met,


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it would be much more convenient if the doctors from the ThirdWorld could practise abroad. However, it has also been said that"the likelihood of such a U.S. program is dim."Thursday, March 08, 2007

Source: SF Weekly 'National policy on medical tourism is the need of the hour'

The Export Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) discussed the needfor an extensive national policy on medical tourism. Since nostate had ever come up with such a policy, Dr. Vinayshil Gautam,Professor of Management Studies stated: "Tamil Nadu,specifically Chennai, is an eye care hub, New Delhi is known for

heart care and Kerala has marketed itself as an ayurveda

destination. Yet none of these States has brought out a

comprehensive medical tourism policy."According to him, othercountries - Thailand, China, Singapore and South Africa havelong had national medical tourism policies for ages.

According to M.P. Naresh Kumar, Chairman of the HarveyGroup of Hospitals, the medical tourism industry needs to belooked upon as an infrastructure industry and not as an industrythat provides services. As per a CII-McKinsey report, medicaltourism to India is expected to bring about revenue of over $2billion by 2012. But in order for this demand to be propagated,

information booths need to be set up globally.Monday, March 12, 2007

Source: The Hindu Business Line

By 2020, Tourism in India could contribute Rs 8,50,000crores to the GDP

With increasing awareness of the gigantic leap in the medicaltourism sector, the Indian government is extending a helpinghand to the growth of the industry. In the Union Budget for 2003-2004, the government has bestowed infrastructure status to

tourism, therefore paving the way for reasonably priced, longterm funds to help finance the tourism infrastructure.

The aggregate for tourism for the Tenth Five Year Plan is Rs.2900 Crore. State governments such as Kerala lay plenty ofemphasis on elevating tourism. The state had an outlay of Rs.74.25 Crore for the financial year 2003 to 2004.


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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Source: IndiaCore Kerala Promoting Medical Tourism to Gain International

Recognition

It had been reported by Mr. E.K. Bharat Bhushan, PrincipalSecretary of Kerala Tourism that Kerala is to be promoted as aninternational medical tourism destination. This promotion ensuresthe huge opportunities in investments for the Non-ResidentKeralites (NRKs), making it a venture that holds great promise.The main purpose behind this is to introduce Kerala as aninternational tourism location by 2010.

The government is willing to aid NRK investors in every waypossible. However, only those hospitals which abide by the terms

of the National Accreditation Board (NAB) would succeed inreceiving government recognition.

Kerala has surprised the populace with the astounding growththat it has seen in tourist traffic, i.e., a growth of 31% in 2005.According to Opportunities in Medical Tourism in India (2007)

(a RNCOS report), Kerala has been the most preferred traveldestination, particularly for those seeking Ayurvedicrejuvenation. The hospitals in Kerala are also setting up specialdivisions and support systems for their global patients.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007Source: Newswire Today

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