Question

Would you opt to become a medical tourist yourself or have a family member become one?

Answer 1

Ans) Medical tourism refers to people traveling to a country other than their own to obtain medical treatment. In the past, this usually referred to those who traveled from less-developed countries to major medical centers in highly developed countries for treatment unavailable at home.

Benefits to become medical tourist:

- Millions of medical travelers or medical tourists travel overseas for their medical, dental and cosmetic procedures. Medical quality standards and international accreditation vary widely across the globe.

- As medical tourists may face unknown risks related to quality, safety and ethics, they look for medical / health tourism provider (medical tourism facilitators). A medical tourism provider may be an organisation or a company specialized in certain areas of healthcare.

- They seek to bring together a prospective patient with a service provider, usually a hospital or a clinic. It is the medical tourism provider who is responsible to offer complete information about medical facilities, quality, safety and legal issues. This include information about the hospitals, clinic, doctors / medical professionals, travel agencies, resorts, medical/ travel insurance overseas as well as information's of local areas.

- Medical tourism facilitators serve as a bridge between the patient and healthcare provider to ensure the patient has a very positive experience from beginning to end.

- They play an important role as educators, organizers, advocates etc. for the safe delivery of overseas healthcare individual.