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Compulsory health insurance for expats in Kuwait
Kuwait has a draft law on mandatory health insurance scheme for expatriates and could require visitors to have health insurance. Expatriates account for 70%...
More government help needed to build India’s medical travel sector
A 'FICCI-EY Knowledge Paper on Medical Tourism in India' has been published by FICCI in association with Ernst & Young (EY). Its recommendations are...
Walmart encourages travel within the US for treatment
Walmart is strengthening its relationships with health systems across USA, launching insurance products tied to value-based contracts with doctors and hospitals caring for their...
Stricter healthcare rules for foreign workers in Japan
Japan is looking to crack down on abuse of the health insurance system as it plans for foreign worker influx.
Japan’s justice minister has said...
20% of EU health spending is wasteful
A recent joint report of the European Commission and OECD ‘Health at a Glance: Europe 2018’, shows that health spending in EU accounted for...
Income disparity restricts access to Ireland’s private healthcare
Thousands of people in Ireland are in a health twilight zone because they are above the income threshold for a medical card but cannot...
Healthy inbound travel to Europe in 2018
European destinations reported healthy growth in 2018 with rising tourist numbers from China, Russia and the USA, according to the European Travel Commission's latest...
Dubai announces TCM partnership to attract patients
Dubai Healthcare City Authority (DHCA), the governing body of Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), has launched a partnership with the Traditional Chinese Medicine and Technology...
Investment in Clemenceau Medical Centre’s Dubai project
Dubai Investments has bought a 20% stake in Clemenceau Medical Centre's project planned in phase 2 for the Dubai Healthcare City.
Dubai Investments has grown...
589 foreign patients went to Turkey for kidney or liver transplant surgery
According to the Daily Sabah, some 589 foreign nationals benefited from liver and kidney transplants from live donors in Turkey in 2018.
The article quotes Turkey...
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