India is considered the leading country promoting medical tourism and now it is moving into a new area of "medical outsourcing," where hospitals provide medical services to the overburdened medical care systems in western countries.
The biggest advantage for India is the no waiting period compare to other country with cream quality services at low cost.
A Survey by Confederation Of Indian Industry(CII) Suggest that the field has such lucrative potential that it can become a $2.3 billion business by 2012
In 2004, some 150,000 foreigners visited India for treatment, and the numbers have been rising by 15 per cent each year and India is excepting 30 percent next year.This is awesome growth compare to other business and this is all due to the quality that India had for this medical services
Most of us know that health care in the US is in crisis. Health care cost in America is reaching all time high of about $2 trillion per year, which is 16% of the GDP, four times the expenditure for national defense, yet 46 million Americans are without insurance and this number increases every year.
A Research study has revealed the fact that India ranks second in medical tourism throughout the world. Interestingly, India spends only 1.2 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product on health issues which would be increase in next year.
Why Gujarat
The state has various advantages and the large NRG population living in the UK and USA is one of the major ones.
With world class health facilities, zero waiting time and most importantly one tenth of medical costs spent in the US or UK
According to a rough estimate, about 1,200 to 1,500 NRI's, NRG's and a small percentage of foreigners come every year for different medical treatments
Other Benefits
• Gujarati doctors take part in world medical conferences which help them to gain vast knowledge about recent developments in the Medical Field.
• Knowledge of English language
• Large percentage of NRG's among NRI's
• Multispeciality Hospitals upgraded with latest technology with modern infrastructure.
• Direct air connectivity between Ahmedabad and USA
•Regarding Gujarat government announcement in December-2006 for Medical Tourism Policy, It claimed that a growth of 33 percent has been registered in the number of medical tourist in the state while the country has registered growth of 20 percent |
