Medical Tourism In India: Is It Worth Trying?

Nearly half a million foreign patients seeking cheap albeit safe treatment have visited India in the last one year, boosting efforts to make the country a major medical tourism destination. Though the trend of foreigners coming to India for treatment has gained momentum only in the last five years, the country is giving a tough competition to other medical tourism hotspots like Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. A heart surgery which can cost as much as 30,000 pounds in the UK and up to USD 60,000 in the US, and a hip replacement that can cost over USD 60,000 in America, costs between USD 3,000 and USD 10,000 and USD 15,000 respectively in India. The recent economic slowdown has also forced corporate, insurance groups as well as out of pocket individuals in the developed world to hunt for better value for their money and India is offering the best deal to them.
As a result, the foreign patients arrival is growing at 40 per cent plus rate annually and the sector is expected to touch USD two billion by 2012, as per a McKinsey survey.When US citizen Kathleen Dodds (42) was diagnosed with a fibroid tumour last year, she found herself in a bind as she was not insured and the cost of surgery was very high -- USD 30,000. Kathleen found an affordable solution thousands of miles away in India. Dodds flew out to a Hospital in Delhi, where she had a successful hysterectomy just for USD 9,000, including round-trip airfare and hospital stay. "I was treated with more care and attention than I had ever experienced in the US that was also without much strain on my pocket," she said. Besides low treatment cost, availability of world-class hospitals with latest technology and highly-skilled doctors are contributing to more foreigners visiting the country for treatment.
Over 100 top private hospitals are catering to the medical needs of such patients, including complicated operations like hip replacements surgery, knee replacement, heart surgery (elective), plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and eye surgery and even dental care.It would be a naive who would underestimate the quality of treatment at the hospitals , undertaken by the best doctors in India.It is worth the effort that the patient makes flying half way around the globe to India with or without a companion, spend a few days at the hospital for the procedure he came for and then spending some days visiting the exotic locations that India has to offer. All this and more at a fraction of the cost that he would pay in his home country and that too without any waiting. It is boom to individuals who are not insured owing to the high cost of insurance in the western world.

By: GreatMedCorp

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