Indian railway company sees potential in domestic medical tourism

The government owned Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has got into medical tourism in a big way. The IRCTC are targeting people...

Vietnam attracts Cambodian medical tourists

There is an increase in the number of outbound Cambodian medical tourists and a shift from Singapore to Vietnam. Official figures from the Ministry of...

Georgia seeks to attract surrogacy tourism

Private clinics in Georgia are trying to break into medical tourism market by offering surrogacy based fertility treatment. Private clinics in the European country of...

Most medical tourism to Mexico is dental or cosmetic

Most medical tourism to Mexico is dental or cosmetic. Almost all medical tourists are from the USA as a surge in treatment costs in...

Karnataka tourism policy includes wellness

The new Karnataka state tourism policy for 2015 to 2020 provides concessions and subsidies for eligible entities willing to develop tourism projects in the...

Patients from Yemen favour Jordan for treatment

Jordan has become an attractive country for Yemeni patients seeking medical treatment. They are now the largest group of medical toursists in Jordan's top...

Pressure on Egypt’s ailing health care system

What you see in Egypt is typical of a health system that has been neglected by the government Henk Bekedam, the World Health Organization's representative in...

Lithuania rues failure of cross border healthcare

Lithuania expected the EU cross border healthcare directive to deliver many paying patients; it has failed to do so. It had hoped that by offering...

NHIS resolves to decentralize the operation of health insurance in the country

The National Health Insurance Scheme will decentralize health insurance to the state level. To deepen the penetration of health insurance in the country, as well...

Recovery of South Korea medical tourism after MERS

Medical tourists are arriving in Korea again after the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome scare ended. The UAE government halted medical tourism to Korea on June 10 due...