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Optimism that patients will return to Costa Rica
Due to COVID-19, the Costa Rican government has closed its borders to international visitors until April 13. However, one dental clinic owner remains optimistic...
View of COVID-19 impact from dental tourism agency
The global impact of COVID-19 has meant putting all activities on hold. Paul McTaggart founder of Singapore-based Dental Departures, a leading dental tourism agency and...
Health City Cayman Islands 14-day closure
Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI) has closed, initially for two weeks, as it quarantined all medical and hospital staff, and their families that came...
England private hospitals turned over to NHS
All private hospital capacity in England will be turned over en bloc to the NHS to help fight the Coronavirus pandemic as part of...
Visa bans block Bangladesh patients travelling to India
The Indian government has suspended travel and medical tourist visas from Bangladesh into India. Medical travel agencies that used to send Bangladeshis to India...
COVID-19: Spain nationalises private healthcare
The Spanish government has nationalised all private hospitals and healthcare providers in the effort against the coronavirus. All health facilities in the Spain, including...
COVID-19: travel restrictions affecting medical tourism
A country by country summary of the latest travel news that affects international and domestic medical tourism, as IMTJ goes to press.
As of 18...
How will COVID-19 shape medical tourism development?
With nearly 15 years’ experience in the medical travel sector, LaingBuisson’s Maria D Georga makes some predictions on how the market might change from...
Will patients come to your medical travel destination, post COVID-19?
COVID-19 is directly or indirectly affecting every medical tourism destination. Healthcare analyst, Ian Youngman, argues that expecting the flow of medical travellers to return...
Israel high court allows surrogacy for same-sex couples
Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that its surrogacy laws are discriminatory, and that same-sex couples and single men should be able to have children...
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