MEDICAL TOURISM
 

Medical Tourism: What is it?

Medical Tourism is a term that describes overseas travel for medical, cosmetic or dental health care. Medical outsourcing, health tourism, medical travel or health travel are all terms used to describe this phenomenon. Depending upon the need, the medical trips are to surgery centres overseas for medical or plastic surgery, or to overseas hospitals and clinics for advanced medical diagnostics, recuperation care or dental care.


Artemis Health Institute, Gurgaon, India

The medical tourist usually chooses to have the surgery or procedure done overseas to:
(a) Get specialized treatment not available locally.
(b) Avoid long wait for medical services in their home country.
(c) Get better quality medical care or diagnostic services.
(d) Combine medical check up with business trip.
(e) Save the cost of procedure and medication.

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