Many types of medical treatment in India cost a fraction of what they do in the United States and other Western nations, and citizens from these countries are flocking to India by the thousands. Until recently, it was the other way around, as upper-income Indians commonly rushed to America and Europe for sophisticated treatment.
With world-class medical care, equipment and facilities now available in India, patients from the United States and other developed countries are going there for treatment. A number of private hospitals in India offer packages designed to attract foreign patients, with airport-to-hospital bed transfer service, Internet access, and other facilities. Some packages include add-ons, such as a yoga holiday or a trip to the world-famous Taj Mahal.
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Rajasthan has woken up to the great potential of medical tourism in the desert State with the stakeholders here getting together this past weekend to work out a programme. Though yet to get equipped to the level of Kerala, a destination fully cashing in on medical tourism at present, Rajasthan with its newly developed health care centres and super speciality hospitals could do well in this field in the near future, they feel.
"We are missing out a great deal in this business. Rajasthan should make use of its huge potential," noted Jai Singh, a scion of the Jaipur royal family and Chairman of the Rajasthan Council of FICCI. "We have to get the medical as well as tourism sectors geared up for this multi million business," he said addressing a conference on medical tourism in Rajasthan, organised by the Institute of Health Management Research here.
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