Slow progress in medical tourism plans in the Bahamas
IMTJ has published several reports on plans for medical tourism to the Bahamas, but these plans have yet to bear fruit. A local surgeon...
Clinics and hospitals given right to operate hotels in South Korea
The government in South Korea has changed the law to allow clinics and hospitals to own and operate hotels, to help promote medical tourism....
Sri Lanka plans to promote medical tourism
Sri Lanka plans to promote medical tourism to support a 20 billion dollars export target in year 2020. Sujatha Weerakoone of the Export Development...
Suicide Tourism In Switzerland Targets Patients Who Are Not Terminally Ill
A recent magazine feature suggests that the business of “assisted suicide” is now attracting people who are not terminally ill. In Switzerland, the numbers...
AXA launches cross- border insurance plans in Africa and Australasia
While medical tourism linked insurance has not yet happened, and shows few signs of being important to health insurance in the future, an increasing...
Costa Rica targets Alzheimer patients
High care costs in the United States for patients with Alzheimer’s disease are prompting families to look to other countries, including Costa Rica, as...
New studies of medical tourism in Kolkata and Karnataka
A new Indian study of medical tourism in Kolkata warns that allegations of hospital dumping of medical waste means a proper environmental impact assessment...
Malaysia targets medical tourism from Oman
The Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council is working hard to promote Malaysia as a medical tourism destination for people from Oman. Kavitha Mathuvay from MHTC...
Russia spends $ 58 million to rescue Crimean health tourism
The Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine has almost destroyed local health and wellness tourism. As some Western countries do not accept that the...
Transplant tourism from the Middle East to China raises ethical issues
In a recent speech to the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation in Istanbul, Canadian international human rights lawyer David Matas shed light on...
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