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Who would go to North Korea for treatment?
According to ARY News, North Korea is looking to offer healthcare treatments for foreign visitors, likely those from China, in 2020. Private tourism is...
22 medical tourism firms in Iran now authorised
Saeid Hashemzadeh, the head of the ministry’s medical tourism department in Iran is quoted in the Tehran Times saying 22 medical tourism companies have...
Kazakh Government tourism plan encourages health travel sector
Recent amendments to the law on tourism in Kazakhstan seeks to encourage more inbound tourists, stimulate tourist purchasing power, and prioritises ten tourist locations...
Swiss health and medical hotel joins WTA
Switzerland’s Waldhotel Health & Medical Excellence has become one of 90-plus Wellness Tourism Association (WTA) members and partners from 18 countries.
Launched in the USA...
High reliance on Russian patients remains
At the IMTJ Medical Travel Summit 2019, Total Croatia News (TCN) journalist Paul Bradbury interviewed Inna Bergman CEO and founder of RTMC Medical, a...
Is the patient flow reversing for the UAE?
Dr Atul Aundhekar, CEO of UAE healthcare group Avivo is quoted in an article in ITIJ saying that outbound medical travel from the UAE...
US Mayo Clinic to operate one of UAE’s largest hospitals
Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) has partnered with US non-profit organisation Mayo Clinic to operate one of the largest hospitals in the UAE.
The...
Health insurance plan offers Canadians treatment abroad
VUMI Canada, in partnership with Humania Assurance, is offering a new product for the Canadian market. Prestige VIP is an international private medical insurance...
xDubai targets 500,000 medical tourists by 2021
The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has announced a target for 2021 of 500,000 medical tourists, half from within the UAE, and half from elsewhere....
The fall of Ireland’s MSC Eurocare
MSC Eurocare was a medical tourism agent helping Irish patients to skip long waiting lists by going to Europe using the EU Cross-Border Directive...
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