For a considerable length of time, medical tourism has been a fast-growing sector in India. In fact, in 2017, the sector in India was identified as one of the world’s fastest-growing. By 2020, a government official projected it to be worth US$9 billion by this year. Earlier that year, investment company ICRA predicted the industry […]
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Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) included a chapter on traditional medicine in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD) for the first time – in what many perceived to be a boon to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The ICD is an influential document. In the WHO’s own words, “ICD is increasingly used in
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Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has announced plans to expand medical tourism in the state, planning to introduce legislation to promote the sector and ensure standards of care to tourists in the state. “Tourists do come to Goa for medical treatment here, but they don’t get proper treatment and get cheated,” the Chief Minister said.
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Tamil Nadu has been hailed as the “health destination of the country” by Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu. While the success of Tamil Nadu’s health system is in its own right an achievement to be applauded, does the announcement by the Vice President serve to highlight a concern that disparities in the Indian healthcare system
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The Centre has introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha to ban commercial surrogacy – part of an ongoing effort to crack down on the practise, with the goal of stopping women being exploited. The bill, if passed, would severely restrict opportunities for surrogacy. Couples, of women aged between 23 and fifty and men aged
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India’s medical tourism sector has been rising over the last few years, steadily becoming one of the country’s most prominent new industries. Forecasts by the Union Ministry of Tourism project a 200 percent growth for the sector by 2020. This would make the industry worth US$9 billion. This level of growth has been sustained the
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India’s medical tourism industry is on the rise. An optimistic forecast by the Union Ministry of Tourism projects a 200 percent growth for the sector by 2020. This would make the industry worth US$ 9 billion in the next two years. It is triple its value in 2015, the year almost 234,000 medical tourists visited
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As many as 201,099 medical visas were granted to citizens of 54 countries in 2016, according to Home Ministry statistics. The numbers are high. However, they have not altered much in the last few years. This is despite a relaxation of medical visa policies in 2014, a move which simplified the process to obtain a
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Could India’s rapidly expanding medical tourism industry be providing a new route for infectious diseases and drug resistance to spread across the globe? Senior health officials in the US think so. “We have a problem in India, .” said Dr Anthony S Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during a
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The medical tourism industry in India is set to reach $9 billion USD by 2020, a government official claims. “During the early days of medical tourism, the attention was always given to developed countries” said Rita Teaotia, Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, addressing the third edition of Advantage Healthcare India 2017 summit. Attention has now shifted
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