Accredited Hospitals in India

The National Accreditation Board for Hospital and Health care Providers (NABH) is a constituent board of Quality Council of India for designing quality parameters in the health care sector.
There has been a very poor response to its accreditation programme. Only seven hospitals out of the estimated 15,000 medical facilities NABH was targeting, have received accreditation in the last one and a half years.

None of the estimated 2,000 government hospitals has even applied for the accreditation programme.

The Board had prescribed a set of 10 quality parameters to be met by the medical facility. These include access, assessment and continuity of care; patient rights and education; hospital infection control; and responsibility of management.

The majority of private hospitals accredited by NABH receive a significant share of these foreign patients.
The NABH

Taiwan Enters the Fray

The government in Taiwan is taking the initiative to cash in on the Medical Tourism boom. By 2015100,000 Asian visitors are expected to seek medical treatment in Taiwan worth 50 billion Taiwan dollars (1.5 billion US dollars). The focus will be on organ transplants, brain and facial surgery, vascular surgery, fertility treatment and knee replacements.

It would seem that medical tourism in different countries is getting more and more specialized with each country identifying its areas of expertise.


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Dental Tourism Growing

Medical tourism includes dental treatment and a medical tourism search engine reveals that 636,155 dental tourism related searches were carried out in June this year.Long waiting lists and expensive fees can be avoided by going abroad for dental treatment and a vacation or a business trip can be included in the trip.
A saving of upto 63% on a treatment is definitely a great motivator causing patients to go abroad for dental procedures.

Great saving

Have Pain Will Travel

Medical Tourism critics in the US may be critical about this phenomenon which is caused by escalating medical costs and unaffordable medical insurance at home. But those who have opted to go abroad are not complaining. If you are in pain you want to get rid of it. If you cannot afford it at home then look for it elsewhere.

An estimated 500,000 Americans journeyed overseas for medical care in 2005.The numbers are increasing every year.

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