Iranian Journal of Public Health (Sep 2010)

Medical tourism-A New Arena

  • S Puri,
  • A Singh ,
  • Yashik

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 39, no. 3

Abstract

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Globalisation has given birth to medical tourism. Health and medical tourism are the fastest growing seg­ments in not only developed nations but in developing countries too. India has become a hot des­tina­tion, as the Indian medical standards match up to the highly prescribed international standards at a very low cost. However, it is an unmixed blessing; along with advantages, it has many unintended side effects also.