What is Medical Tourism?

Medical tourism or health tourism is travels undertaken by people to another country for obtaining medical treatment. By and large, people travel from less developed countries to major medical centers in highly developed countries for medical treatment that was unavailable in their own communities. The recent trend is for people to travel from developed...

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India’s Healthcare Tourism Portal Inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi at GES

Prime Minister of India  inaugurated India’s Healthcare Tourism Portal at the ‘SAAARC Trade Mart’ in the Global Exhibition on Services, in ITPO, Pragati Maidan. Ms Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry (Independent Charge) and Mr J.P. Nadda, Minister for Health and Family Welfare were all present there at Healthcare...

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India-UAE health event to boost medical tourism

The initial steps in this direction will see the launch of an Indo-UAE Health Cooperation Programme that will begin with a two-day event in Dubai from today.Dubai — With the new generation of Emiratis and others in the region increasingly preferring the West for medical tourism, India is trying to regain its position as a major destination for medical travellers from here.The Indian government has come up with new strategies to build better cooperation in the health sector with the GCC countries. The initial steps in this direction will see the...

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