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20,000 outbound medical travellers from Zimbabwe per year
The Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has claimed Zimbabwe spent US$4bn in outbound medical tourism in the last decade.
The minister wants...
Iran city attracts medical travellers from neighbour states
6,000 foreign patients per annum visit hospitals in Mashhad, Iran’s second most populous city, according to a deputy from the Mashhad University of Medical...
Germany looks to attract more GCC patients
In an article in Travel & Tourism News promoting Germany to GCC international patients, Sigrid de Mazieres, Director for the Gulf Countries at the...
Ukraine’s President encourages medical tourism
According to dnd.com, Ukraine President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has indicated he would consider visa-free schemes for certain countries to encourage inbound medical tourism.
The...
Indian Government’s support for medical travel
In an article in Eurasia Review, Jessie Huang argues that as India becomes a top medical tourism destination, the government must prioritise quality and...
Surrogate baby denied US citizenship
According to Bionews, a US married couple has been told by the State Department that their surrogate daughter, born in the UK, is ineligible...
Chinese outbound travel continues to rise
Despite the effects of geopolitics on the tourism industry, Chinese outbound travel continues to rise according to Jing Travel which has published an in-depth...
Drop in Afghans getting treatment abroad
Afghanistan’s Minister of Public Health, Feruzudin Feruz has said that the number of Afghan patients traveling abroad for medical treatment has declined, reports MENAFN.
The...
Mistrust in Vietnam healthcare still driving patients to Thailand
In an in-depth article published in ITIJ, Robyn Bainbridge investigates Vietnam’s medical reputation to find out what access to healthcare really looks like in...
What do you know about the Chinese medical traveller?
Do you understand the Chinese international patient? Do you appreciate their particular consumer habits and expectations of international healthcare?
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