Medical Tourism-The Travel Destination Ms. Ashawan Shradha1,*, Ms. Verma Chelvee2 1Assistant Professor, HOD Dep. of Community Health Nursing, Government College of Nursing, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh 2M. Sc. Nursing Previous Year Student, Government College of Nursing, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh *Corresponding Author E-mail: shradhaashawan@gmail.com
Online published on 27 December, 2018. Abstract Medical tourism is attracting attention of travellers from all over the globe. It combines a travel at ease and availing medical health care facility at low cost as per traveller's own choice. World class medical health care is available in some of the Asian countries, such as India, Philippines and Singapore etc. Medical tourism has become one of the major industries in recent times. Medical Tourism India (Health Tourism India) is a developing concept whereby people from world over visit India for their medical and relaxation needs. Most common treatments are heart surgery, knee transplant, cosmetic surgery and dental care. The reason India is a favourable destination is because of its infrastructure and technology in which is in par with developed countries. India has some of the best hospitals and treatment centres in the world with the best facilities. Top Keywords Medical tourism, Cost effectiveness, Hospitals, treatments. Top |