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| Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:05 am Medical Tourism in Developed Nations |
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The sprouting number of medical care centers in Kerala gives a clear picture of healthcare tourism sector in Kerala. Developed nations have all the sophisticated gadgets using for excellent medical care treatments. But developing nations get hoards of medical travelers from industrialized nations. The fact will appear as a dilemma, but in real life it happens. Developed nations create various problems for medical patients; different nations offer different problems. In the US rising healthcare cost is the problem; in Canada and the UK long wait time disappoint the patients.
Globalisation and reduction of aviation costs and services created new destinations for medical treatments. These are the third world nations located in Asia and Africa. The low cost of living in these regions on the globe is well exploited for medical tourism centers. Medical travel was a luxury item for citizens from developed nations till recent times, but the real potential behind medical tourism is now blunt open to middle class populace of these nations. They are actually deriving a relaxed medical vacation by attending Medical tourism India, Indonesia, Malaysia or South Africa program. Every stream in medical tourism is being developed as an independent field; examples are dental tourism, Wellness tourism etc. |
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