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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Five things you can do in a medical travel hiatus
If you’re involved in the medical travel business, then the coming months are going to be very difficult. With the closing down of borders...
Cutting treatment abroad programme costs in Turks & Caicos
At a Public Accounts Committee meeting in February, Dr Terese Maitland, interim CEO of the National Health Insurance Board (NHIP) has said that the...
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