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

Medical Tourism

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

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Life Lift cin Costa Rica


Women going to to Costa Rica for a face lift can also have the experience of a Life Lift under the guidance of an experienced life coach.
Costa Rica is already a well known destination for cosmetic procedures. The Life Lift programme gives it that extra edge over other countries that are also in the same field in medical tourism.
Face Lift and Life Lift

Outsource Healthcare


Will the British National Health Service outsource surgical procedures to India?
This would create 40 million new jobs ,earn the country an annual $1 billion and make it the healthcare destination of the world

Hospitals in India

Health Tourism in Cypress


The Cypress government has recognized the potential Cypress has to become a center for health tourism.

Its central location, ideal climate and excellent medical services at cost effective rates has prompted the government to encourage investment in the economy especially health tourism.

Cypress has potential

Evolution of Medical Tourism


Guess What. medical Tourism is evolving before us.
We are right in the middle of the evolution of medical tourism. We saw the spiraling cost of healthcare forcing patients to look elsewhere for their treatment (many have regretted doing so-but that is not part of this story). Everyday we read about one more country promoting itself as a medical destination with tourism thrown in for good measure.
Now it is specializing medical tourism in the news. Brazil is laying claim to the title of Haven for Baldies with cheaper hair transplant procedures and ideal tourist attractions.
What might the next stage be?

Good News For the Bald

Monday, June 18, 2007

Liver Transplant in India


The success of doctors in a Delhi hospital in India, in conducting two complicated liver surgeries serves to emphasize the expertise of Indian surgeons.

In one instance the doctors of Sir Ganga Ram hospital in Delhi performed a reduced liver transplant on a little girl who was suffering from a rare liver disease. The donor was cadaveric, or brain dead. The hospital bore the entire cost of the surgery and her aftercare.

In a second case doctors at the same hospital performed a successful liver transplant without any blood transfusion. This time the patient was a four-year-old Pakistani boy suffering from congenital liver disease, the donor was his uncle a successful liver transplant without any blood transfusion he cost of the surgery was reduced in this case.

Cadaveric Donor
Bloodless Technique

Does 'Cheap' imply 'Not Good'?


Escalating health care costs are forcing more and more Americans to look elsewhere for their treatments. But the doctors in the US don’t approve of this trend. They are concerned because very often their patients have returned as the victims of botched procedures or adversely affected by travelling after a complicated procedure abroad.

The American Medical association admitted recently that "America's health care system has failed many of our citizens, in particular the 46 million uninsured” and sees the need to evaluate international health care quality standards.

According to US doctors, cheap treatment will not be the best. But then it need not be the worst either.

Good or Bad?

Destination India


Why go to India for a medical procedure?

It is cheaper, a patient does not get stuck on a waiting list, language is not a problemsince most people speak English, doctors and medical facilities are the best in the world,and most imp[ortantly it is a good holiday destination.


Why go to India