Medical tourism is also known as medical travel, heath tourism or global heath care. The term medical tourism is used by travel agencies and mass media to describe the ever growing practice of traveling across the world to obtain health care. Such kind of trips are taken by those people who have enough money to travel abroad to get their health better.
The Medical tourism packages provide a large number of facilities to the people. Services in these packages includes elective procedures and specialized surgeries like joint replacements, cardiac, dental and cosmetic surgeries. Many complicated health care systems such as psychiatry, alternative treatments, convalescent care and burial services are also included in these medical tourism packages.
Such packages are very beneficial for the customers who are looking for health care in the foreign countries. The customers and the agencies use a very formal way of communication, connection and contract.
Reproductive tourism and reproductive out souring are also parts of medical tourism which helps the person traveling overseas to undergo in-vitro fertilization, surrogate pregnancy and assisted reproductive technology treatments which includes freezing embryos for retro-production.
Medical tourism is a budding industry in more than 50 countries all around the world. Every country has its own techniques and methods which vary in quality and risks. In order to prevent their selves from medical controversies every country has appointed experts in the field of medical tourism.
The concept of medical tourism is not new; it was started thousands of years ago in a small territory in the Saronic Gulf which in known as Epidauria. Epidauria became the original travel destination for medical tourism in the world. Today medical tourism is helping to earn a large amount of foreign currency.
Medical tourism industry in beneficial for both heath care industry as well as tourism industry because it has great market potential and provides many wealthy customers. The medical tourism packages, apart from providing medical facilities also offer a number of non-medical facilities like accommodation, transfers, and bilingual assistance and many other travel options.
Many medical tourist travel great distances in order to receive heath care in other countries. It is the responsibility of the host country to provide them the best available medical facilities. Medical tourism packages are very well organized which keeps in mind all the requirements and needs of the travelers. Such packages take full care of the visitor from the time they enter the country till the time they leave.
Medical tourism is very beneficial for those people who are not able to receive proper heath care in their own countries. So in a way such kind of tourism is a blessing for many travelers.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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