Medical Tourism targets additional 1 million tourists
Thursday, December 22, 2005
The Indian Ministry of Tourism has announced it will target an additional one million tourists by 2010 through medical tourism, and has already taken steps to promote India as a major health destination.
The Minster of State for Tourism Renuka Chowdhury said that collaboration with the medical industry, price bending of Indian hospitals has been completed to ensure uniform and reasonable prices for particular treatments.
Accreditation of hospitals to maintain the required international standards for treatment has also been completed.
Medical visas for six to one year stays for treatment in India have also been pushed, as the Ministry of Tourism for the first time took representatives of the Hospital Industry to attend the World Travel Mart in London.
Campaigns promoting India as an attractive medical tourism destination will soon be launched in overseas markets.
“India has strategic advantage in the healthcare area which include world class doctors and excellent health care infrastructure, coming up in private sector, availability of traditional Ayurvedic and other Indian health care wisdom along with the expertise of western medicine and competitive cost of the treatment which is almost one fifth of the western countries,” Ms Chowdhury said.
She said India receives medical tourists from over 55 countries for Cardiac surgeries, multi organ transplants like Renal, Liver, Heart, Bone Marrow Transplants.
Tour operators have been advised to include Ayurveda health destinations in their marketing ventures in view of the increasingly popular Ayurveda in Western countries.
The Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development and Parliamentary Affairs said that all precautions should be taken to promote healthcare destinations in the country to ensure high standards of services are met.
The Indian Ministry of Tourism has announced it will target an additional one million tourists by 2010 through medical tourism, and has already taken steps to promote India as a major health destination.
The Minster of State for Tourism Renuka Chowdhury said that collaboration with the medical industry, price bending of Indian hospitals has been completed to ensure uniform and reasonable prices for particular treatments.
Accreditation of hospitals to maintain the required international standards for treatment has also been completed.
Medical visas for six to one year stays for treatment in India have also been pushed, as the Ministry of Tourism for the first time took representatives of the Hospital Industry to attend the World Travel Mart in London.
Campaigns promoting India as an attractive medical tourism destination will soon be launched in overseas markets.
“India has strategic advantage in the healthcare area which include world class doctors and excellent health care infrastructure, coming up in private sector, availability of traditional Ayurvedic and other Indian health care wisdom along with the expertise of western medicine and competitive cost of the treatment which is almost one fifth of the western countries,” Ms Chowdhury said.
She said India receives medical tourists from over 55 countries for Cardiac surgeries, multi organ transplants like Renal, Liver, Heart, Bone Marrow Transplants.
Tour operators have been advised to include Ayurveda health destinations in their marketing ventures in view of the increasingly popular Ayurveda in Western countries.
The Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development and Parliamentary Affairs said that all precautions should be taken to promote healthcare destinations in the country to ensure high standards of services are met.
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