Medical Tourism

Medical Tourism is a term referring to an act of travelling abroad to receive medical treatment. The reasons for taking such a step may vary, but mostly it comes down to three:

      Substantial savings

      Short  waiting periods for treatment in destination countries

      Quality of healthcare in the destination country

Medical Tourism is emerging into a phenomenon, and patients all over the world discover the new possibilities every day. Americans, Europeans, citizens of the CIS countries and many more travel to other countries to receive medical treatments provided at low cost and highest level of competence.

India, Singapore, Thailand, Germany, Switzerland, France, South Africa and Israel – those are only few of the countries promoting medical tourism. New destinations arising rapidly, like Taiwan, OAE, Turkey and China. Many more examples can be given, but it is already clear that we are experiencing a new era – era of globalization. And medical services successfully adjust themselves to the new world.

Cardiology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Oncology - all those and more are medical branches practiced with great success in countries promoting medical tourism.

In Asia, for instance, many of the doctors trained in US or Europe, and have the highest level of expertise. Private Hospitals have high level of service, comfortable rooms with Internet and TV, private nurses. The hospitals are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, with the latest models of CT, PET-CT, MRI and X-Ray systems.  Stuff speaks English, interpreters for other languages are provided also if needed.

In Europe, where among the most popular destinations we can mention Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Britain and Belgium, patients receive treatment by the best doctors in the Western world, who also have the most current equipment at their disposal. The combination of high expertise and modern equipment allows European doctors and their Asian counterparts to achieve most impressive results of treatment and high success rates.

Dental Medical tourism is on the rise as well, allowing Americans and Western Europeans to save up to 70% on their dental treatments. Americans travel for their dental treatments to Mexico, Costa-Rica, Thailand and India. Europeans travel to Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary) and to the East as Well. Dental Tourists travel either specifically for dental treatments, or combine them into a vacation.

To complete the picture, we have to mention the most popular branch of medical tourism – Plastic Surgery. Every year tens thousands of people travel abroad seeking to return more confident of their appearance. India and Thailand offer great specialists and good deals. Germany is famous for its plastic surgeons. France, the beauty capital of the world, is recognized as the best plastic surgery destination in the world.

As we can see, the act of Medical Tourism, that was peculiar 3 or 4 years ago, now becomes more and more popular. Those who become medical tourists, save money, receive first class treatment and see the world. Get a quote now!