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Patients from Yemen favour Jordan for treatment
Jordan has become an attractive country for Yemeni patients seeking medical treatment. They are now the largest group of medical toursists in Jordan's top...
86% of the rural population and 82% of the urban population are not covered...
More than 80% Indians have no medical insurance though they rely on private healthcare for their medical needs.
More than 80% Indians do not have...
Chinese visitors to Taiwan must have health insurance
Chinese visitors have unpaid healthcare bills of NT$100 million, so Taiwan makes travel health insurance compulsory.
Due to having to pick up the costs for...
OECD Health Statistics 2015: Reductions in spending
Many European countries saw further reductions in health spending in 2013, according to OECD Health Statistics 2015. Health spending continued to shrink in Greece,...
Japanese plans to promote health tourism get mixed reaction
The Japanese government wants to promote medical and health tourism, but may be too late.
The Japanese government wants a visit to a clinic for...
Dubai links health insurance scheme to visa renewal
From August Dubai Health Authority will link health insurance to visa renewal and issuance to ensure company compliance with the mandatory insurance scheme.
No visa...
Pressure on Egypt’s ailing health care system
What you see in Egypt is typical of a health system that has been neglected by the government
Henk Bekedam, the World Health Organization's representative in...
Lithuania rues failure of cross border healthcare
Lithuania expected the EU cross border healthcare directive to deliver many paying patients; it has failed to do so.
It had hoped that by offering...
NHIS resolves to decentralize the operation of health insurance in the country
The National Health Insurance Scheme will decentralize health insurance to the state level.
To deepen the penetration of health insurance in the country, as well...
Recovery of South Korea medical tourism after MERS
Medical tourists are arriving in Korea again after the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome scare ended.
The UAE government halted medical tourism to Korea on June 10 due...
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