Iran city attracts medical travellers from neighbour states

6,000 foreign patients per annum visit hospitals in Mashhad, Iran’s second most populous city, according to a deputy from the Mashhad University of Medical...

Germany looks to attract more GCC patients

In an article in Travel & Tourism News promoting Germany to GCC international patients, Sigrid de Mazieres, Director for the Gulf Countries at the...

Ukraine’s President encourages medical tourism

According to dnd.com, Ukraine President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has indicated he would consider visa-free schemes for certain countries to encourage inbound medical tourism. The...

Indian Government’s support for medical travel

In an article in Eurasia Review, Jessie Huang argues that as India becomes a top medical tourism destination, the government must prioritise quality and...

Surrogate baby denied US citizenship

According to Bionews, a US married couple has been told by the State Department that their surrogate daughter, born in the UK, is ineligible...

Chinese outbound travel continues to rise

Despite the effects of geopolitics on the tourism industry, Chinese outbound travel continues to rise according to Jing Travel which has published an in-depth...

Drop in Afghans getting treatment abroad

Afghanistan’s Minister of Public Health, Feruzudin Feruz has said that the number of Afghan patients traveling abroad for medical treatment has declined, reports MENAFN. The...

Mistrust in Vietnam healthcare still driving patients to Thailand

In an in-depth article published in ITIJ, Robyn Bainbridge investigates Vietnam’s medical reputation to find out what access to healthcare really looks like in...

What do you know about the Chinese medical traveller?

Do you understand the Chinese international patient? Do you appreciate their particular consumer habits and expectations of international healthcare? Listen to Lynzi Wang, Founder and...

NW Malaysia State Attracts 9,000 Medical Travellers

9,078 people from various countries visited Perak under medical tourism between January and June 2019, said state tourism committee chairman Tan Kar Hing in...