Category Archives: Medical Tourism/Health Tourism

A British patient from London narrates her experience of knee surgery with Dr.AKVenkatachalam in Chennai. She researched many options for knee surgery in the UK, South Africa, Cyprus and France and finally decided to have her surgery by Dr.AKVenkatachalam in India. She cites the Doctor’s qualifications, expertise and professionalism as the deciding factors. Following her key hole surgery she enjoyed a holiday at a seaside resort. www.kneeindia.com
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Medical Tourism a solution for increasing Healthcare costs

High costs in healthcare has raised alarm in all parts of the world, may it be Africa or Asia. America or Europe people every where in the world have asked for more affordable packages in healthcare. Increasing costs has resulted in more complications and increasing mortality rates are a direct consequence. There is an ever increasing number of uninsured and under insured people. This issue of increasing healthcare costs can be very well controlled at an acceptable level, by arranging medical tourism trips to low cost healthcare providers in short term.

Medical Tourism is getting accepted by all over the world may it be developed to developing traffic trend or developing to developed traffic trend. Medical tourism is more acceptable, more reliable and more dependable now. Medical tourism is no more for mere healthcare checkup or cosmetic procedures as it was the common practice in the past, but now patients ranging form complicated procedures of heart surgery, to chronic and serious illnesses related to neurosurgery and cancer surgery is all practiced in the world at top destinations of medical tourism.

Medical Tourism Malaysia provides solutions to medical tourism patients, ranging form orthopedic surgery, plastic or cosmetic surgery, heart and lung surgery to medical health checkup and wellness, rejuvenation packages. Malaysia is blessed with lush green hill tops and crystal blue water for its tourists. Its an English speaking country for its tourists and the hospital staff is well trained locally and internationally from reputed institutions of medical knowledge and learning. The most important aspect of this trip is its cost. Medical tourism Malaysia offers packages at costs which are hard to compare in this region and internationally. Single Hip Replacement surgery costs about 4 to 6 thousand USD. Open heart surgery or cardiac bypass is from 9 to 12K USD.

Wellness Visit is providing tailored packages to its tourists from all around the world, including services of accommodation and hotel booking, travel and tour trips, concierge services, hospital care and post procedure after care at hotel or any rejuvenation center. Just visit http://www.wellnessvisit.com and fill the registration form to start your wellness journey now.

Medical Tourism Malaysia for low cost procedures by top class doctors

As it is becoming popular and popular with increasing number of patients are traveling around the globe for medical and health tourism solutions. May it be a travel trip for fun and pleasure with some basic checkup or an advanced healthcare procedure like heart by pass or hip replacement? Or may it be for medical reasons for heart valve replacement, Lasik surgery or obesity/ bariatric procedure for weight loss coupled with some pre procedure or post procedure travel and tour. Malaysia is the top answer for both ways of doing this. Malaysia was ranked number 3 in top 5 medical tourism destinations in the world by Nuwire, a US based research investment think tank.

Malaysia boasts volumes of its excellently maintained healthcare providers by stringent government controls on the policies for control of promotion and advertisement, thus not visible much in news papers, magazines and electronic media. But certainly as good as other regional healthcare providers like Singapore and Thailand. More over Malaysia is as competitive in cost as Thailand and much superior in terms of healthcare providers, healthcare infrastructure, English speaking staff, foreign trained specialist doctors, and strict government rulings on maintaining the high standards of healthcare delivery systems. Malaysia is as competitive as Singapore in the quality of healthcare, through it world class facilities of hospitals and clinics, latest machines in healthcare and more over world class renowned surgeons and doctors that it has more in number then any regional healthcare providers. Malaysia is offering all these services at costs less than Singapore. Rather Singapore is no match to Malaysian costs for procedures in healthcare. Malaysia in terms of costs, facilities and infra structure has no match in this whole region, a reason why Nuwire Investor has ranked Malaysia at number three in the world.
How to get medical tourism solutions?

The best way is to find a solid partner like Wellness Visit, who can really reduce the over all costs in this whole process of medical tourism in Malaysia. Being a leading medical tourism facilitator in Malaysia, Wellness Visit has roped top class tour and travel partners like Golden Holidays, Air Lines partners like Malaysian Airlines, hospital partners like KPJ Healthcare, UKM Specialist center and Isec Eye/ Opthalmology center. All of them are accredited and international recognized centers of to class healthcare provision.

Also on board Wellness Visit are hotel and accommodation providers like Le Meridian, Ascot and others. Wellness Visit provides these services for three top cities in Malaysia like Johor Bharu, Kuala Lumpur and Penang. At wellness Visit , Medical tourism is not just simple tourism or medical and healthcare experience but it’s coming across a new cultural discovery for sheer professional hi touch and hi tech experience in increasingly scarce human touch world. Wellness Visit takes special interest to provide care and assist to match any tough budgetary allocations to accommodate guests from all around the world, developed and developing world.http://www.wellnessvisit.com

Upgrade Your Health In Baltics!

Many countries already for a long time offer foreign patients to get medical treatment for lower costs. Now Latvia started more actively offer its capital – Riga – as a top destination for medical tourism. There are few significant reasons for it to be so:

First – quality of medical services: European level, experienced professionals, top quality equipment. Even some Eastern countries are not so well equipped as private clinics in Latvia.

Second – prices: savings up to 50 % and more can be made comparing with the treatment in Western countries or e.g. Scandinavia. Despite the fact that patient pay for flight and sometimes accommodation. However there are some procedures you can make also in 1 day!

Third to mention here – transport access: Riga International Airport is biggest in Baltics and have direct flights in 61 directions, works with more than 15 different flight companies. Starting with 28 March 2010 company WizzAir – biggest cheap flight air company in Eastern Europe will start flights between Riga and London (Luton), Turku (Torp), Oslo.

Medics in Latvia achieve high results in different fields of medicine! In 2009 there were made several extraordinary and unique operations:

– Latvian traumatologists first in Baltics discovered the new, more effective method of a bone tunnel drilling-rinse-aspiration operation;
– Children Clinical University Hospital with the management of professor Ara Laca made an unique operation to 4 years old Sophia – administered stem cells in heart muscle;
– Paul Stradinsh Clinical University Hospital medics team made unique life rescue operation to a 62 years old Janis – with the artificial materials they restored ruptured major blood vessel – aorta – and renewed blood circulation to the brain;
– Gailezer Vascular Catheterization Laboratory manager Svetlana Rudnicka made an unique operation for 2 patients suffering from liver cirrhosis, giving them hope that next years there will be no need to wait in worries for hard complications!

Also temperate climate of Latvia is good for post-operation period. And not only climat – if you explore Latvian nature, you will find some interesting facts which prooves that nature of Latvia treats! 🙂

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Dental Tourism – your Trip to a New Smile

Have you ever heard the phrase “dental tourism?” to most people this combination of words doesn’t sound too pleasing because the following question comes immediately to our minds: what do tourism and vacations have to do with cosmetic dentistry? The fact that they might not be obviously related doesn’t mean that there is no connection between each other.

As you know people are always looking for great products at rock bottom prices, whether it is during the holiday season, birthday parties, weddings etc. low prices are just something we are programmed and look forward to find. The same concept is true when it comes to oral health and cosmetic dentistry. If your financial bracket doesn’t allow you to spend much in reconstructive treatments which can improve your appearance and social relations don’t worry, everything isn’t lost.

People who live in countries where the life style is expensive have always had the option of flying to another country where consultation prices for health related issues are much lower, this is the case of people who live in the UK, USA, Japan, etc. Teeth implants are normal procedures which can improve your overall look, these can be somewhat pricey in these countries but luckily we live in times when most of the currencies used in these great countries double and sometimes triple the value of other currencies.

While the consultation and treatment costs are considerably low, there are some disadvantages such as the ongoing evaluation which is needed for advanced cosmetic dental restorations so you need to consider that if your case requires constant visits to the dentist for evaluation and adjustments then it would be best to have the procedure done in your country, if on the other hand the procedure is quick and harmless such as veneer implants where you as a patient won’t need extensive teeth work then flying to another country for health related purposes is the right solution.

Patients who live in the UK know that dental tourism is often the best solution for their cosmetic dentistry needs. Countries such as Budapest, Poland, India, Romania, Italy, Spain, Greece, and thailand are places where flights and hotel accommodations can be arranged to have your oral treatment taken care of. Recently, Thailand as also seen an increase in the medical tourism field and it is all related to the topic we have addressed, so run some numbers and make a smart budget, if you see that the costs in your country are just too high then it might be time to take a “medical” vacation.