India is Big Mart for Medical Tourism Business

With growing number of private hospitals offering the best of medical services in the world, India has been evolving as a big mart for medical tourism business, which is reportedly growing at the rate of 30 per cent each year.

India is known to offer quality and cheap health care services to foreign tourists. As per the study carried out by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Indian medical tourism industry will become a $2.3 billion business by 2012. In 2007, India treated nearly 450,000 foreign patients, thereby bagging the second position in the medical tourism realm.

India is in the process of becoming a Big Mart for Medical Tourism owing to the following advantages:

* Indian medical services cost 30% less as compared to Western countries and they are considered to be the cheapest in South-east Asia.

*India has large number of English speaking doctors, nurses, guides and medical staff. This makes it easier for foreigners to communicate with the Indian doctors.

* Indian hospitals do extremely well in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, transplants, joint replacements, dental care, cosmetic treatments, Orthopaedic surgery and more.

* The medical services in India comprise, full body pathology, comprehensive physical and gynecological examinations, audiometry, spirometry, Chest X-ray, 12 lead ECG, 2D echo Colour Doppler, gold standard DXA bone densitometry, body fat analysis, coronary risk markers, cancer risk markers, high strength MRI etc.

* All medical treatments are carried out using the latest, technologically advanced diagnostic equipments.

* Indian doctors have achieved excellence in performing successful cardiac surgeries, bone marrow transplants, liver transplants, orthopedic surgeries and other medical treatments.

* The expenditure incurred for Infertility treatments in India is almost 1/4th of that in developed nations. The accessibility to modern reproductive techniques, such as IVF, and an array of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) services have made India an infertility treatment hub.

Medical Consultation and Surgery

India is the looked upon as the ideal medical destination for surgery and treatment, because of the numerous government hospitals and private tertiary care medical institutions with International JCI (Join Commission International) Accreditation. Most of these hospitals rank among the best in the world. They are well-equipped with the most modern and sophisticated technologies. The panel of internationally trained Consultants and Surgeons in India, backed by specialist medical teams, ensure total patient care with high success rates. The best thing being the cost of Medical consultation and surgeries is very affordable. The most important surgeries which foreigners prefer to carry out in India are listed below:

Infertility Treatments
Heart/Cardio Surgeries
Cosmetic Treatments
Eye Care
Dental Care
Orthopedic Surgeries
Organ Transplants
India a big mart for alternate system of medicines like ayurveda

Ayurveda

Ayurveda is the oldest form of medicine, and lore has it that its guiding principles were scripted by Hindu Gods, and written texts available date back to 3500 years. This probably makes it the earliest medical science available that believes in the blending of physical, mental, social, moral and spiritual welfare. India has been proactively propagating its usefulness via various global networks. Consequently, many foreign companies have started realizing the effectiveness of this science. People from U.S.A., U.K., Russia, Germany, South Africa, Hungary and other parts of the world visit India to get treated by Indian Ayurveda experts.