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New GBAC and GHA accreditation programme
The Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC), and the Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Programme for Medical Travel Services are collaborating to create a joint GBAC...
100% flight capacity to Kuwait by Aug 2021
Kuwait is implementing a five-phased plan to reopen the economy completely by mid-September 2020. The final phase will start on August 1, 2021 at...
Costa Rica reopens 1 September
Costa Rica hopes to resume tourism by welcoming back visitors from Canada, Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK, the EU and Americans...
COVID-19 uptick threatens medical travel to Malaysia
The gradual reopening of Malaysia for inbound medical travel from Indonesia is now under threat. The government has extended the country’s movement curbs, due...
European medical travel halted
European medical and health tourism destinations Hungary and Ukraine have closed their borders again due to a new spike in infections. In a normal...
Is Germany’s medical travel boom over?
Some believe Germany remains a key destination for Gulf medical tourists, but some voices, including IMTJ contributors, have challenged that this view is out...
Where can a Chinese medical tourist go?
Few leading medical tourism destinations are yet available to Chinese customers. New opportunities exist for over 20 countries who can now welcome Chinese medical...
Bumrungrad Achieves GHA’s Covid-19 Certification
Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, is the first hospital in the world to be awarded Global Healthcare Accreditation's Certification of Conformance with COVID-19...
Walgreens puts doctors in drugstores
Walgreens and VillageMD have struck a deal to open doctor offices in 500-700 drugstores across the USA over the next five years. More than...
GNP Hospital achieves Temos Covid-19 Safe certification
Ghassan Najib Pharaon Hospital (GNP Hospital), a tertiary care hospital in Jedda, Saudi Arabia is the first hospital worldwide to successfully complete the Temos...
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