Medical City project launched

Contract awarded for the construction of a centre for medical education and medical services that will offer its services to patients from Bahrain and...

Third new hospital in Oman

Aster DM Healthcare, one of the largest private healthcare service providers operating in multiple GCC states, has opened its third hospital in Oman. The...

10% increase in inbound tourism to Kazakhstan

According to Kazakh TV, 8.5m tourists visited Kazakhstan in 2018, 10% higher compared to 2017. It claims the majority of visitors arrived from Central...

More Chinese medical travellers to Japan

According to The Japan Times, more Chinese patients are visiting Japan on medical visas. It says that in 2011, when the government first introduced...

West Africa’s largest healthcare project launched

According to an article in CleanLeap, West Africa's largest healthcare project has been launched in Accra, Ghana. The Eco Medical Village is apparently set...

GHG shows strong Q1 2019 growth

Georgia’s private healthcare service Georgia Healthcare Group (GHG) has published its first quarter figures, showing a strong growth. Opportunities are seen in further developing...

Increases seen in botched surgery

According to Ireland’s Independent, a leading plastic surgeons has warned about the rise in botched non-surgical cosmetic procedures in Ireland. There is, apparently, an...

Turkey’s Health Ministry launches translation service for international patients

According to BrinkWire, the International Patient Assistance Unit (IPAU) of Turkey’s Health Ministry is now providing 24/7 oral translation in English, German, French, Russian,...

PHIN launches consumer healthcare price comparison tool in UK

The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) has called on the UK independent healthcare sector to work together to improve price transparency as it launched...

High costs in Singapore encourage outbound medical travel

Singapore's rising healthcare costs may be pushing medical tourists to less costly competitors. Losing foreign patients mean private hospitals in Singapore like Raffles Medical,...