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World class treatment by team of highly experienced and reputed doctors. Medical facilities are at par or even better than the western countries.

High Value/Cost Effective Medical Care in India

In view of the rising cost and/or lack of readily available medical care in USA, UK and other western countries, increasing number of people are seeking medical treatment in India which offers comparable, or in some cases, even better medical treatment at a reasonable cost. Unlike, in USA or UK, you don't have to wait for days or sometimes even months to get medical treatment, when you arrive at our facility in India.

MEDICAL TOURISM IN INDIA

THE most recent trend in privatization of health services is medical tourism, which is gaining prominence in India. Globalization has promoted a consumerist culture, thereby promoting goods and services that can feed the aspirations arising from this culture. This has had its effect in the health sector too, with the emergence of a private sector that thrives by servicing a segment of the population that has the need and want to "buy" high end quality medical care at competitive rates that was previously perceived to be available in the Western countries only.

However, this has changed and is gaining momentum. Even people from western countries such as USA and UK, where timely and affordable medical care is becoming a luxury for increasing masses of the population, are seriously considering or seeking treatment abroad in countries such as India for medical treatment. This is the genesis of the "medical tourism" industry.

Mr. M.L. Wadhawan is a founding Co-Director of HelloMD.com. He brings a wealth of administrative, legal and management experience of more than forty years in various capacities in the Government of India and corporate sectors. In his career he has contributed in various capacities including Member, Central Board of Excise and Customs; Director General, Revenue Intelligence and Narcotics Commissioner of India. Mr. Wadhawan, on behalf of the Government of India, created and headed the Directorate of Emergency Risks Insurance Schemes. When the Government of India took over the management of general insurance, Mr. Wadhawan took over the management and presided over three general insurance companies until regular custodians were appointed. During his insurance tenure, Mr. Wadhawan wrote THE HANDBOOK laying down the enforcement procedures of Emergency Risks Insurance and the principles of of settling claims there under for damages/losses suffered due to enemy action. The Government of India has preserved this Guide in the National Archives of India as a permanent reference book for future guidance..

Mr. Wadhawan has also represented the Government of India and headed various delegations at international conferences, including chairing the Drugs Committee of ICPO - INTERPOL at the General Assembly Session held in Luxembourg in 1984.
Mr. Wadhawan contributions during his distinguished career include assessing the issues of drug enforcement, foreign exchange, customs and excise; and exchange control regulations and guiding the Governments of President Hila Llama of Ghana and Prime Minister Annirudh Jugannath of Mauritius, to honor their requests to the Prime Minister of India. Mr. Wadhawan work included providing a guiding framework in view of the issues involved within which the respective laws of the countries mentioned, were re-written and enacted.

Mr Wadhawan retired from the Government of India in the capacity of founder Director General, Central Economic Intelligence Bureau in the Union Ministry of Finance, at par with the Chairman, Central Board of Excise and Customs; and Chairman of Board of Direct Taxes.

After his retirement from government service, at the request of the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, Mr Wadhawan served as a member on the TASK FORCE ON India's INTERNAL SECURITY. The recommendations made by Mr Wadhawan were accepted by the Group of Ministers, and approved for implementation by the Prime Minister of India.

Dr Niraj Kakkar (MBBS, DCH, MD) is a Founding Co-Director at HelloMD.com, and a chief architect of medical offerings made by the organization. Dr Kakkar is a highly qualified and distinguished medical doctor with more than fifteen years of experience in the field.

MEDICAL TOURISM AS AN INDUSTRY

Medical tourism can be broadly defined as provision of 'cost effective' private medical care in collaboration with the tourism industry for patients needing surgical and other forms of specialized treatment. This process is being facilitated by the corporate sector involved in medical care as well as the tourism industry - both private and public. In countries such as India, it is being actively promoted by the government's official policy. India's National Health policy 2002, for example, says: "To capitalize on the comparative cost advantage enjoyed by domestic health facilities in the secondary and tertiary sector, the policy will encourage the supply of services to patients of foreign origin on payment. The rendering of such services on payment in foreign exchange will be treated as 'deemed exports' and will be made eligible for all fiscal incentives extended to export earnings". The formulation draws from recommendations that the corporate sector has been making in India and specifically from the "Policy Framework for Reforms in Health Care", drafted by the prime minister's Advisory Council on Trade and Industry, headed by Mukesh Ambani and Kumaramangalam Birla.