Laser-eye surgery packages launched
Swedish medical-travel agency, Salveo Travel, specialising in medical, cosmetic and dental treatment plus health and wellness tourism for the last two years, has launched...
Saudi hospital wins JCI status
Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City, a 400-bed rehabilitation hospital and medical centre, has achieved JCI status.
Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City, a 400-bed rehabilitation hospital...
Sudan plans to invest in medical tourism
Sudan is the largest country in Africa but as yet has no involvement in medical tourism. While cost-comparative medical treatment is the high-profile end...
Jeju unveils plan for Healthcare Town
The autonomous province of Jeju, which is approximately an hour's flight from Seoul, is out to get a share of South Korea medical tourism...
JCI’s new quality and safety improvement framework
Joint Commission International (JCI), a healthcare accreditation body that has given its stamp of approval to more than 200 hospitals in 27 countries, recently...
Scotland opened health tourism consultation
Scots travelling abroad for medical treatment must have "clarity and certainty" over what will be paid for by the NHS, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon...
We look at Treatment Abroad’s new rating and review system.
It's been a couple of months since we launched medical tourism ratings and reviews. It's met with a variable response from the medical tourism...
Government to draft medical tourism action plan
In an aggressive push to put Tunisia on the medical tourism map, President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali has directed his government to draft...
The Health Tourism Show set to open
The Health Tourism Show, a brand new medical travel event, will open at London's Olympia Two exhibition hall from October 25 to 26. Up...
Local developer to grow “health islands”
Ithmaar Development Company (IDC), the development arm of the Bahrain-based Ithmaar banking group, plans to establish “health island” projects – similar to the one...