Medical Tourism

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

Thursday, June 28, 2007

The Race Has Begun


Competition is the name of the game in Medical Tourism. It is an important foreign exchange earner and the governments in most countries are waking up to this fact.

The Philippines government has filed a bill to create a Medical Tourism Bureau. In Kerala, India, the government is setting up a holistic treatment center for medical tourists. In Saudi Arabia the government is building the infrastructure to meet the growth in the number of medical tourists, in Thailand a government sponsored exhibition is being organized to showcase the hospitals and the treatments provided. The list goes on.

The gold rush is on.

And The winner Is