Category Archives: Medical Tourism/Health Tourism

Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Jacques Verhagen and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro announce their successful resolution of air space issues as they go on to plan for several cooperative ventures between Venezuela and the Dutch Antilles. Commemorating the second anniversary of tourism opening between Formosa (Taiwan) and mainland China, six new Chinese regions are added to the now-25 provinces and municipalities whose citizens may travel to Formosa. In celebration of the annual European City of Culture event, Germans convert a 60-km stretch of the busy A40 motorway around the city of Ruhr into a giant outdoor festival at which performers showcased local culture. The US Defense Department confirms that two detainees, one Algerian and one Syrian national, are being freed from the US-run Guantanamo Bay facility to travel to Algeria and Cape Verde, respectively. Jordan’s Minister of Health Nayef Al Fayez and Romanian Ambassador to Jordan Radu Onofrei meet to discuss cooperative ventures in the fields of healthcare between their countries. A 1000-square-kilometer geological park along the Alpine border between Slovenia and Austria is being launched to protect natural and cultural heritage as well as enhance the two countries’ collaboration. Saudi Arabia’s youth participate in the Scientific Camp in Tunisia during which knowledge in environmental and scientific fields is exchanged. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks via the phone with International Quartet …

Heather travelled to New Zealand for surgery with Medtral New Zealand. Here she shares her life changing experience of receiving a new hip in world class facilities.
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The Centrum Hotel is in New Delhi, the capital of India. The hotel is situated in the South Delhi area. The nearest international airport is Indira Gandhi International Airport and the nearest domestic airport is Indira Gandhi Domestic Airport. Check out the video to see the facilities, rooms, lobby, etc. of the hotel. Hotel Centrum is an affordable place to recuperate after a surgery or treatment in your medical tourism trip. Healthbase arranges accommodation in this apartment hotel and arranges medical tourism trips in India. For more information about affordable overseas treatments and lodging log on to www.healthbase.com.
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Superbug may already be widespread in Japan Recent outbreaks of a deadly bacterium in 2 hospitals in Japan apparently started from patients who have never travelled abroad. Experts say the superbug may be widespread in Japan. Teikyo University Hospital in Tokyo recently revealed that 9 patients who died in the hospital were infected by the drug resistant bacteria called Acinetobacter. The superbug has also infected 24 people at Fujita Health University Hospital in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, since February this year. The 2 hospitals say the first patients thought to be infected had not travelled abroad. Juntendo University associate professor Satoshi Hori says the bacterium may have already been spreading in Japan. He is recommending hospitals to quarantine suspected patients and strengthen monitoring to prevent in-house infections. 2010/09/08 07:32(JST) (JST: UTC+9hrs.) Superbug confirmed at Tokyo hospital Health authorities are investigating a Tokyo hospital for infections from a drug-resistant bacterium implicated in the deaths of 2 patients. Inspectors visited the Yurin Hospital in Setagaya Ward on Tuesday, one day after it reported 8 patients infected since February with the multi drug-resistant Acinetobacter. The hospital said 4 of the patients had died. Health authorities say the bacterium is resistant to almost all antibiotics and is probably the direct cause of two of the deaths. They say all the infected patients were in the same ward of the hospital and 5 …
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