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Lucrative scene of Indian healthcare Tourism

Author: Jyoti Kaur
by Jyoti Kaur
Posted: Jun 08, 2015

Medical tourism, also popularly known as healthcare tourism is becoming a popular concept among the international community. Among the set of chosen destinations for medical tourism, India is perhaps among the top listed choices for several reasons. Especially during the recent years, India healthcare tourism has witnessed a big boom with a phenomenal number of foreigners pouring into the country to take advantage of the professional as well as economical healthcare solutions available in the country. With the inflow of a number of potential private investors, the Indian health care industry has thoroughly equipped itself to effectively meet the needs of the international community thereby contributing to the flourishing of medical tourism in India.

One of the chief reasons for India to gain prominence among the medical tourism destinations is the competitive costs of medical procedures in India. When compared to the advanced countries, the cost of sophisticated medical procedures like heart transplant, cardiac procedures, renal surgeries, knee replacement, bone marrow surgery, neurological procedures and a number of other sophisticated surgeries and procedures cost much less in India. On the other hand, statistics show that the success rates of most of these surgeries are significantly higher in India than most other advanced countries. Hospitals in India are well equipped medical hubs. These days, chain of hospitals are becoming popular in the metropolitan cities. Some popular brand names in the Indian medical arena are running some state-of-the-art hospitals and healthcare centres that feature facilities of international standards and are capable of rendering world class treatments across a wide range of illnesses and medical conditions. These hospitals located in the major cities of India serve the needs of the Indians as well as the foreigners who visit the country on several medical grounds. The vast infrastructure and A-Z facilities, medical equipment and specialized wards of some high profile hospitals in the country are on par with any international hospital in much developed countries.

India is replete with medical colleges. A large number of doctors are graduating from these colleges year on year. While a sizeable percentage of them go abroad to take up jobs in some developed countries, many of them remain in the homeland to serve in the local hospitals and the hospitals in the metropolitan cities. Therefore, India has no dearth of medical professionals. Also, there are a large number of institutions in the country that are producing phenomenal number of paramedical staff, diagnostic professionals, nurses, midwives and other kind of medical staff who enter the numerous hospitals in the nation. Indian medical professionals are well trained to render a courteous and dedicated service.

Indian cities are well connected through all kinds of travel mediums. Once the foreigners are here in the country to avail of medical care, they can visit the different hospitals and their preferred destinations with ease. Also, the country assures a lot of avenues to get a quality post operative care and rejuvenation programs. Therefore with its myriad set of capabilities, the country can effectively meet the medical tourism expectations and requirements of the international community.

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India Healthcare Tourism is a online medical tourism in India portal helps peoples to search hospitals as per treatments along with sightseeing.

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