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Partial List of Diseases Treated
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.
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MEDICAL TOURISM :: DESTINATION
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.
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.
PREVENTIVE
HEALTH PROGRAM
This complimentary package for the patient and his/ her companion is
worth 3000 US Dollars (Each Case). It includes: Complete Blood
Counts, Liver, Lung & Renal Function Tests, Coronary Risk Profile
(Treadmill Test & Transthoracic Echocardiography), Chest X-Ray,
Ultrasound - Whole Abdomen, Surgical, Ophthalmology, Internal
Medicine Consultation and Gynecology Consultation (for the Females).
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