Travel to India for Health

[bora_priya]

Today India offers World Class Medical Facilities, comparable with any of the western countries. India has state of the art Hospitals and the best qualified doctors. With the best infrastructure, the best possible Medical facilities, accompanied with the most competitive prices, you can get the treatment done in India at the lowest charges.

Patients from around the globe are beginning to realize the enormous potential of modern and traditional Indian medicine. Indian hospitals, medical establishments and the government of India have also realized the potential of this niche segment and have begun to tailor their services for foreign visitors. International marketing divisions have been set up by most of the top India Hospitals like Apollo, Max, Fortis, Wockhardt, etc. Some top medical tourism providers like http://www.TaMedical.com, are helping the hospitals in this task. At a regional level, this nascent healthcare industry came to limelight with the arrival of 'Naby Noor' from Pakistan, who came for her Heart Surgery treatment to a hospital in Bangalore. Quite a few Indian state governments have with time, realized the potential of this 'Healthcare industry' and have been actively promoting it.

Visitors, especially from the United States of America, United Kingdom and the middle-east find Indian hospitals a very affordable and viable option to coping with insurance and National medical systems in their respective countries. Travellers prefer to combine their medical treatments with a visit to the 'exotic east' with their families, visiting places like the Taj Mahal in Agra, the palaces in Rajasthan, the serene beaches in Goa and the mountains of Kashmir and the backwaters of Kerela among others. The total price of an overseas treatment with airfare, hotel accommodation and even a few days of vacation is often far less than just the procedure cost back in the US or UK.

The year 2003 and 2004 saw a trickle of tourists from the healthcare systems of western countries seeking medical treatment in India. By the year 2005 and 2006 this became a deluge, much of it propelled by a blast of free publicity from programmes like 60 Minutes.

Judging by the buzz in the hospital circuit, it won't be very long before every cosmopolitan private hospital offers yoga, ayurvedic massages, aromatherapy, mudbaths, pranic healing, reiki and meditation classes. With time more and more visitors will flock to this part of the globe for their treatment and relaxation needs.


Also visit: with http://www.indiaheals.com for more information

[alampuri]

Nice to see this website. Thanks

[Omni]

Sounds like BULL, foreigners have nothing to give except take.

[Omni]

who's side is the democracy on. India's or Foreigner's. Of courses over time the dreeded foreigners become a part of India, overpopulating India with there capitalist souls and burdeoning India with thier useless presence while converting India to mainstream Western culture. We had our own history beliefs and progress, fucking brits and the white blooded cowards. PM me any Hindus to clear this up, I feel India is so stupid.

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BBC News, 18 November 2005

Tourists' harming India's health

Foreigners go to India for transplant operations
Health tourists are helping destabilise India's health system, doctors claim.
They say too much is being spent on care for foreign patients and care for rich Indians - while public health care for poorer people is neglected.

Dr Samiran Nundy, from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, and Amit Sengupta from India's People's Health Movement made the claims.

Writing in the British Medical Journal, they called on the Indian government to reconsider its priorities.

It is time for the government to pay more attention to improving the health of Indians rather than to enticing foreigners from affluent countries with offers of low cost operations and convalescent visits to the Taj Mahal

Dr Samiran Nundy and Dr Amit Sengupta

The doctors say that increasing numbers of patients are coming to India from the Middle East, Africa, Pakistan and Bangladesh for high level care such as complex paediatric operations or liver transplants, which are not carried out in their own countries.

In addition, patients are also coming from the UK, Europe and the US for "quick, efficient and cheap" heart bypasses or orthopaedic operations, the doctors say in the BMJ.

'Five star hospitals'

Dr Nundy, a gastro-intestinal surgeon, and Mr Sengupta say that, while a shoulder operation in the UK would cost £10,000 at a private hospital, or entail a wait on the NHS, in India, the same procedure can be done for £1,700 - and within 10 days of the first email contact.

They say India is one of the top 20 countries in the world in terms of its spending on private healthcare.

The doctors say drug and IT companies and private individuals have got into the market.

"They now dominate the upper end of the market, with five star hospitals manned by foreign trained doctors who provide services at prices that only foreigners and the richest Indians can afford."

But at the same time, the country has one of the lowest levels of public spending on healthcare in the world - less than 1% of gross domestic product.

Dr Nundy and Dr Sengupta said the conditions seen by the poorest were seeking care were very different.

"Each harassed doctor may have to see more than 100 patients in a single outpatient session.

"Some of these doctors advise patients, legally or illegally, to `meet them privately' if they want more personalised care," they said.

Dr Nundy and Dr Sengupta said that there were even reports of hospital patients having to pay bribes to get clean bed linen.

They also warned that some Indians have to go to great lengths to pay for private care, having to borrow money or sell assets to finance treatment.

They add: "In India, each year tuberculosis kills half a million people and diarrhoeal disease more than 600,000.

"It is time for the government to pay more attention to improving the health of Indians rather than to enticing foreigners from affluent countries with offers of low cost operations and convalescent visits to the Taj Mahal."