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Please read Medical Tourism Market Grows (Part 1) for the beginning of this story. Keith Pollard, who runs the website Treatment Abroad, warned that Dubai's chances of medical tourism success could be limited, due to a problem that is common to other small countries that want to become medical tourism destinations. "Lots of Arab patients travel to Germany or the UK. Why? Because Germany has an 80...
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The medical tourism market is growing, with ever more countries looking for ways to provide foreign patient care. "Everyone wants their share of the pie," said Sanjiv Malik, a hospital director, at a recent conference on medical tourism that was attended by more than 300 professionals in Berlin. The "pie" is getting even bigger. Nearly three million patients are traveling abroad for medical...
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Medical tourism is perhaps not something that one would initially consider when faced with needing a particular treatment or wanting a certain procedure. Many of us have either a National Health Service or medical insurance. But some do not and therefore need to pay their medical treatment themselves. That is when considerations need to be made in terms of the quality and value for money of any...
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A van transporting medical tourists from Las Vegas was the first vehicle to go through the new medical tourism lane in a special inaugural run that was held at noon on April 29 2012. An employee with Mexicali's tourism board stationed at the border crossing took away the orange cones in front of the designated lane when the van pulled up, and then opened a yellow gate to let the van pass. As the...
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The Mexican border town of Mexicali is encouraging more tourists from the US and Canada to visit that city's dentists, surgeons and doctors. Starting April 30 2012, medical tourists from the U.S. with the right documentation are able to skip much of the waiting time on the Mexican side of the border by using a new designated medical tourism lane. Mexicali's tourism director, Omar Dipp, said the...
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The Take Away with John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee is a co-production of WNYC Radio and Public Radio International, in collaboration with The BBC World Service, New York Times Radio and WGBH Boston. On Thursday, April 12, 2012 the radio show covered ‘The Rise of Medical Tourism’. In 2012, hundreds of thousands of Americans will go abroad, not to see historic landmarks or experience a new...
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Canada is often seen as a key market for providing medical tourists, but there is very little academic or other research on this phenomenon. How many medical tourism projects take off and are sustainable? Is it 200 or 2 Canadians travelling abroad, and when? Why do some Canadians look for treatment overseas? One academic study last year showed demand for medical tourism being far less than the...
Mexico
There are good reasons for the continued growth of medical tourism in Mexico. The rising cost of healthcare in the U.S. is one of these. Another factor in favor of medical tourism to Mexico is government and private groups in Mexico creating initiatives to promote Mexico for medical travel from overseas. Experts say medical tourism in Mexico’s resort destinations is staying strong. Affordability...
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In the last few years medical tourism in Mexico has grown more organized. Companies that self-insure risk encourage patients to travel for treatment and this means they share any savings with them. The largest private hospital network in Mexico is Angeles Health International. This network is made up of over 22 hospitals, 1,700 beds and more than 11,000 specialists. Hospitals are located in...
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Medical tourism in Mexico continues to grow. Patients are travelling from the neighboring US as well as further afield to benefit from new medical treatments and excellent value for money. The Deloitte Center for Medical Solutions predicted a surge in Mexican medical tourism for the next few years. Americans have been purchasing medicines in Mexico for some time and there are 345 pharmacies...

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