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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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By Medical91 Tourist91
Know More About Medical Tourism
Medical tourism or Health tourism or global healthcare means to go in a foreign country for treating health related problems. Usually this type of treatments costs much less than the country of the tourists.
Medical Tourism is not totally a new concept. It has been found that in Ancient Greece, people use to go to a place by the name of Epidauria for treatment. The place is the abode of the god of healing i.e. of Asklepios. Now a day, millions of Westerners are going to foreign countries for different medical treatments. The most important factor for this rush is that they can have good treatment in some Asian and Latin American countries by spending a quarter of what they could have spent if they have their treatments in their own country.
Another reason for its popularity is that in Western countries, treatment is not possible without any medical insurance, which is not the case with the Asian countries. Moreover, regarding the surgeries, sometimes the patients have to wait for even one year but other |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 31 December 2008 )
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