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What Is Medical Tourism?

So what is medical tourism and why does this catchy term seem to be popping up in the media so often these days? First off it may be helpful to define what medical tourism is not. It is not a vacation package sold to doctors, nor is it a pastime for folks who like to tour hospitals. It is also not strictly tourism per se, although many aspects of tourism are engaged to some degree or another.

Its also known as health travel, medical travel, or global health care

Hospitals in India
Hospital is the medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care. A hospital is a building selling medicine and doing surgery and take X-rays and give glasses and some other things.

Top 5 hospitals in india


KG Hospitals

Aravind Eye Hospitals


Kalari Kovilakom Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai & Bangalore AyurvedaGram

What is yoga
Yoga is an ancient Indian body of knowledge that dates back more than 500" class="related_products_container"0 years ago. The word "Yoga" came from the Sanskrit word "yuj" which means "to unite or integrate." Yoga then is about the union of a person's own consciousness and the universal consciousness.

ECONOMIC OF TOURISM
OVER 150000 MEDICAL TOURITS TRAVEL TO INDIA TO IN 2002 BRINGING IN EARNING OF $300 MILLION 2006-07 -30000$ ML ANNUAL GROTH 2000- 15% PER YEAR 2007 -30% PER YEAR MEDICAL TOURISM REVENUE POTENTIALLY HAS RISED FROM 5000 CRORE -10000 CRORES PER YEAR CONTRIBUTION TO GDP OF HEALTH CARE INDUSTRIES IS ABOUT $17 BILLION WHICH IS ABOUT 4-5% OF GDP & EXPECTED 13% ANNUALLY IN NEXT 5 YEARS

Micro Economics - Comparative Cost Analysis Metal Free Dental Bridge India US $ 500 $ 5500 Bone Marrow Transplant India US $ 30,000 $ 250,000- $40,000 Cosmetic Surgery India Thailand $ 2000 $ 35,00 Spinal Fusion $ 5500 $ 7000 US $ 10,000 $ 62,000

UK $ 150,000 Singapore $ 9000

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