Medical tourism development in India
Medical tourism, also known as health tourism or medical travel, simply means travelling in search of inexpensive and good medical care from one location to another or from one country to another. In pursuit of specialised care, earlier people from developing countries would migrate to developed countries paying a very high cost. In their home countries, the medication may not have been available, may have required lengthy waiting times, or may have been deemed dangerous. So, patients typically better-off people seeking urgent treatment, moving to areas with more specialised medical care, were the trends. It was above all, only affordable for the wealthy. However those patterns have reversed over the past decade. Now more patients are moving to developing countries from developed countries to receive medical treatment at reduced rates. Therefore, recent trends show patients travelling to places for cheaper medical treatment.
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