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Foreign patients pay up to double for treatment Thailand
Health officials have instructed administrators at Thailand's state hospitals to implement a new rate structure that significantly raises prices for non-citizens. This will affect,...
Patient danger in Colombia
Colombia is the latest Latin American country where American medical tourists are complaining of treatment that is harmful.
Lyndsay Colosimo from Delray Beach went to...
378,967 medical tourists to South Korea in 2018
According to the South Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, data for 2018 shows 378,967 medical tourists, a 17.8% increase from 321,574 in 2017. In...
Cross-border healthcare promise for Northern Irish
People living in Northern Ireland will still have access to the equivalent of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) after Brexit, says Ireland’s Prime...
Overseas investment in Jamaica needed first
Jamaica has mostly unsuccessfully tried to offer health and medical tourism in recent years with only a small flow of medical tourists visiting the...
Saudi Arabia relaxes limit for foreign investors
Saudi Arabia needs more foreign investment, including in healthcare, to move its economy away from oil dependency. The country has recently relaxed the 49%...
Plan to combat over-tourism to Greece’s holiday islands
The European Bank for Recovery and Development (EBRD) and the Greek Ministry of Tourism will roll out a programme to promote sustainable tourism, focusing...
Drivers of the global wellness sector
The Global Wellness Institute has issued a white paper series, “Understanding Wellness”, which will provide insights on how wellness is evolving now and into...
US medical tourist dies after treatment
Seven patients from Utah became ill after weight loss surgery in Tijuana in Mexico, and another US patient has died. The Utah state health...
Raising the quality of US healthcare
Executives at three major US hospital systems, University of Utah Health, Sentara Healthcare and Houston Methodist Healthcare, say choice of accrediting organisation can make...
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