Medical checkup of 28 steps cheaper in India than US : NRIs
Medical checkup of 28 steps cheaper in India than US : NRIs: "Medical checkup of 28 steps cheaper in India than US : NRIs
Washington: The concept of medical tourists is fast catching up with the large Indian-American community in the United States as medical examination is very nominal in India than in the US, where the health care system leaves much to be desired.
Other reasons medical tourists find is the improved hygiene at all times while doctors examine the patients. The medical staff also dispose of the used syringes in a machine that instantly incinerated the needles.
In fact, medical tourism is a side effect of globalisation, which has encouraged more international business ties and opened up more frequent flights to far-off destinations. According to a website a long-term resident of California, Hemant Buch, 42, founder of the California Cricket Academy, flew to India last month to recruit coaches for the upcoming youth cricket tournament in Cupertino, California. He made an appointment for an annual check-up at Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad.
The 28-step examination lasted from 0800 hrs to 1500 hrs, providing the medical team with enough time to assess his health in detail. During the phases of the physical, a friendly staffer served him breakfast and beverages. The bill was about 110 dollars.
Buch is among the world's 150,000 so-called ''medical tourists'' who mixed business or pleasure with health care when they travelled to India this year, the website said.
Buch, who grew up in Ahmedabad, immigrated to the United States to pursue a master's degree in engineering at San Jose State University in 1987. Now, he travels to India about three times a year, often because of cricket. For the past two years, Mr Buch has been getting his annual check-up in India.
But now confidence-boosting changes, like improved hygiene, are part of a new government strategy to attract one million additional medical tourists to India by 2010, according to the news reports. India is also promoting its low-cost medical treatments to travel agencies. At the World Travel Market held in London in November, India's tourism ministry for the first time brought along hospital representatives and dedicated 32 of its 212 stalls to the health care industry.
Even though annual check-ups, hip replacements, liver transplants and other procedures in India typically cost just one-tenth to one-fifth of the price paid in Western countries, medical tourism could be lucrative for India. An additional 1 million international patients could bring the country as much as two billion dollars, the government estimates.
Some experts believe medical tourism, which is already growing by 15 per cent annually, will be India's second-largest to boost the economy, after information technology.
Washington: The concept of medical tourists is fast catching up with the large Indian-American community in the United States as medical examination is very nominal in India than in the US, where the health care system leaves much to be desired.
Other reasons medical tourists find is the improved hygiene at all times while doctors examine the patients. The medical staff also dispose of the used syringes in a machine that instantly incinerated the needles.
In fact, medical tourism is a side effect of globalisation, which has encouraged more international business ties and opened up more frequent flights to far-off destinations. According to a website a long-term resident of California, Hemant Buch, 42, founder of the California Cricket Academy, flew to India last month to recruit coaches for the upcoming youth cricket tournament in Cupertino, California. He made an appointment for an annual check-up at Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad.
The 28-step examination lasted from 0800 hrs to 1500 hrs, providing the medical team with enough time to assess his health in detail. During the phases of the physical, a friendly staffer served him breakfast and beverages. The bill was about 110 dollars.
Buch is among the world's 150,000 so-called ''medical tourists'' who mixed business or pleasure with health care when they travelled to India this year, the website said.
Buch, who grew up in Ahmedabad, immigrated to the United States to pursue a master's degree in engineering at San Jose State University in 1987. Now, he travels to India about three times a year, often because of cricket. For the past two years, Mr Buch has been getting his annual check-up in India.
But now confidence-boosting changes, like improved hygiene, are part of a new government strategy to attract one million additional medical tourists to India by 2010, according to the news reports. India is also promoting its low-cost medical treatments to travel agencies. At the World Travel Market held in London in November, India's tourism ministry for the first time brought along hospital representatives and dedicated 32 of its 212 stalls to the health care industry.
Even though annual check-ups, hip replacements, liver transplants and other procedures in India typically cost just one-tenth to one-fifth of the price paid in Western countries, medical tourism could be lucrative for India. An additional 1 million international patients could bring the country as much as two billion dollars, the government estimates.
Some experts believe medical tourism, which is already growing by 15 per cent annually, will be India's second-largest to boost the economy, after information technology.
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