African countries seeking to reduce outbound medical tourism
Several African countries want to reduce the flow of outbound medical tourism, mostly to India, and eventually become local medical tourism destinations. While several...
Tanzania: a new medical travel destination?
Over five years, major investments in healthcare in Tanzania have enhanced the availability of specialised services transforming the country into a minor destination for...
Jordan international patient flow
35,000 patients of restricted nationalities visited Jordan in the first eight months of this year, and the total number of foreign patients who visited...
Is the UK fertility sector facing a tipping point?
Writing in BioNews, Sally Cheshire, Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), believes that in 2019 the UK fertility sector faces a...
US Affordable Care Act boost to Mexico
In an article in Skift, Josef Woodman, CEO of Patients Beyond Borders, estimates 1.4m Americans engaged in medical tourism in 2017, and that the...
More countries awarded WTTC stamp
Croatia, Ecuador, Guam and Ghana are the latest destinations to be awarded the world’s first global safety and hygiene stamp, launched recently by the...
Tehran hotel/hospital complex seeking international patients
The Gandhi Hotel-Hospital claims to be ‘the hotel-hospital’ in the Middle East, with an international patient centre offering a wide range of non-medical services...
Medical travel within the USA isn’t growing
With outbound medical tourism on hold, domestic medical tourism in the USA should be thriving, but it is not.
Americans are allowed to travel overseas...
European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is not for medical tourists
Almost 200 million Europeans already have the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), according to the latest figures from the European Commission. This represents more...
How to open safely for visitors
The British Virgin Islands is a positive case study in how to open safely for tourism and health tourism. Protocols specific to business sectors...
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