Medical Tourism

news about medical tourism and patients travelling to foreign countries for medical treatment

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Bloomberg Article on India's emerging surgery tourism


Fascinating article (which is no longer available through the web as far as I can tell) in the July 2005 Bloomberg Markets magazine on India's next frontier in outsourcing: surgery.
Health care for foreign patients will deliver 100 billion rupees ($2.3 billion) a year to India's hospitals by 2012, according to a report by New York-based consulting firm McKinsey Co. and the New Delhi-based Confederation of Indian Industry, the nation's biggest business group. The market in 2003 was $333-million ...