First is the world-class medical standards. The majority of public hospitals in India are in poor condition, with an average of less than one bed per 1,000 people, but the emerging private hospitals are a different story. The Escot Hospital is a high-rise, tree-lined hospital. Not far from the Apollo Hospitals from a distance like a palace, wards a variety of advanced medical equipment is available. Trehan said, most of India's private hospitals are not worse than Europe and the United States big city hospitals, and even beyond. In addition, the medical quality is guaranteed is the key to attract people. Escot Hospital completed 4,200 heart surgeries last year, with a mortality rate of only 0.8% and an infection rate of only 0.3%, while in developed countries, the average mortality rate of the same surgery reached 1.2% and the infection rate was 1%.
Second is very low medical prices. Anna Morkel, director of Apollo Hospitals, who has been in the U.S. medical profession for more than 20 years, said a MR*** vibro-imaging scan costs $700 in the U.S. and only $60 in India. According to a report by the Confederation of Indian Industry, India's fees are generally 1/10 of those in Europe and the U.S. Mr. Masher from the U.K. was happy to say after receiving a heart bypass surgery at a private hospital in Bangalore, "This surgery in the U.K. requires 19,000 pounds, and also have to wait in line for half a year, where it only cost 4,800 pounds, including round-trip airfare. "
Again, it's the English-speaking medical staff. Most healthcare workers in India speak English, which makes it easy for patients from all over the world to be able to communicate with them. Advantage: cosmetic surgery and beauty support centers have been set up
Suitable items: cosmetic surgery, stem cell therapy
Most foreign patients come to South Korea to seek medical care, mainly for medical and dental treatment, plastic surgery and physical checkups. It has also been reported that the city of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, has started contacting Seoul Plastic Surgery Hospital for "foreign cosmetic surgery tourists" this year as more and more women from Japan, China and other Asian countries are coming to South Korea for cosmetic surgery. Among local governments, Seoul City will be the first to set up a cosmetic surgery support center and actively attract medical tourists. According to the Korea Medical Tourism Association, Seoul's attempt to focus medical tourism on cosmetic surgery will yield better results than the medical tourism business being promoted by the Korean government. The demand for medical tourism in China will surge after the Beijing Olympics, the source added. Advantage: medical costs are very low
Suitable items: health checkups
To attract more tourists, the Malaysian government has begun to actively promote "medical tourism," which is to say, combining medical treatment or health checkups with tourism. Currently, the government has designated 44 private hospitals with more than 7,000 beds to participate in this program. This is another initiative of Malaysia after the successful launch of "ecotourism" and "agro-tourism". The slogan of "Medical Tourism" is: "Relaxation is the best time for a health check-up". In between relaxing, shopping, and even playing golf, tourists can go to a medical center linked to the hotel they are staying at to get a chest X-ray, blood pressure test, liver scan, and other health checks. Usually, about five hours after the examination, you can get a complete examination report, and if you need further treatment or surgery, you can be transferred to the medical center to continue treatment. The biggest advantage of Malaysia's promotion of "medical tourism" is its very low medical costs. According to a report in a London newspaper, the cost of providing health checks for tourists is only 1/5 of the cost of similar checks in the UK. Advantage: sophisticated medical services, ranked by the World Health Organization as Asia's best country with the best healthcare system
Suitable projects: weight-loss surgery, health checkups
Scandinavia is ranked by the World Health Organization as Asia's best country with the best healthcare system and has become a popular destination for wealthy businessmen from neighboring countries to see a medical doctor. In recent years, Singapore has become a place where wealthy businessmen from neighboring countries like to visit for medical treatment, and many Indonesian wealthy businessmen even come to Singapore regularly for a week each year to receive health checks, which has evolved into a form of medical vacation. Singapore has also been actively developing medical tourism. In 2005***, 400,000 overseas patients came to Singapore to receive a range of medical treatments, including X-ray tests and surgeries for the eyes, heart, brain and cancer, bringing in a revenue of about HK$3.88 billion.
But Singapore's medical tourism is facing challenges from the likes of Malaysia. To tap the market, the country will target wealthy Chinese and Indians this year, and several Singaporean ministries even traveled to Shanghai late last year to promote the local medical tourism business, aiming to attract 1 million foreign patients a year to Singapore by 2012 for medical treatment. Advantage: medical travel agencies and professional dentists
Suitable items: "repairing broken teeth", "planting new teeth"
Hungary is a landlocked country in the center of Europe, and although its mineral resources are relatively poor, it has beautiful natural landscapes and distinctive architecture. It has beautiful natural scenery, distinctive architecture, hot springs, and a climate with four distinct seasons. In recent years, Hungary has attracted a lot of French tourists, and one of the important factors is the "absolutely attractive and competitive" dental costs in Hungary. Although the French enjoy one of the most favorable health insurance systems in the world, in the last three or four years, due to the rising costs of health care, the French themselves have to bear a larger and larger share of the medical care, and the waiting period is also longer. Therefore, many French people choose to use their holidays to travel to Budapest, while vacationing and dental treatment.
Hungary is famous for its dentistry and has countless excellent dentists. In a town of only 50,000 people on the border of Hungary and Austria, the number of dentists reaches 400 people. In Budapest you can have a few teeth planted for about 465 euros; the same medical program in France or Austria would cost 1,500 euros. Since Hungary joined the European Union in 2004, it receives thousands of foreign tourists every year. As many French people use their vacations to Budapest to "repair their broken teeth" and "plant new teeth", a number of travel companies have emerged, which are not only responsible for ordering air tickets and hotels, but also responsible for introducing French tourists to the appropriate doctors and providing an interpreter to facilitate the French tourists' needs. And provide an interpreter to facilitate French tourists' living and seeking medical treatment in Budapest.
Israel, the IVF capital of the world
■In an effort to promote fertility, Israel is the only country in the world that offers highly subsidized IVF procedures, even free of charge at public hospitals.
Israel's in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures are known around the world because the country, which promotes fertility, offers high subsidies to women who undergo the procedure in an effort to boost the population's fertility rate. While such procedures are expensive in other countries, in Israel they are mostly paid for by the government.
Sheba Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, sees a steady stream of patients every day. Jews and Arabs, straights and gays, people of all stripes come here with one goal in mind: to use medical technology to bring them a baby that will preserve their Jewish heritage.
Israel is already the IVF capital of the world, and Sheba Hospital performs about 7,000 IVF procedures a year, making it the most frequent clinic in the world. Israel is not like other countries where couples have to spend a lot of money to undergo IVF procedures. In Israel, the government offers unlimited IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) to women under the age of 45 with fewer than two children.
In public hospitals, the procedure is done entirely at government expense. In private hospitals, patients pay about $150 if they use the supplement. While women must pay for their own ovulation injections, the government also subsidizes them. This policy has resulted in Israel having the highest number of IVF procedures per capita in the world. Despite the fact that IVF procedures account for Israel's largest public ****health expenditure, the policy has attracted little criticism or opposition because encouraging prolific births is a goal that the Israeli government shares with the Jewish faith ****.
Rewarding IVF procedures is an issue on which very few in the stylized Israeli society agree. Israel is unique in having a high-tech culture that is at the same time very traditional," said Gulden, a medical sociologist at Hebrew University who has studied IVF regulations.
Israel's fertility rate is already high, with an average of 2.9 children per family. The country promotes fertility in hopes of retaining its Jewish majority to counter the rapid growth of the Arab population in the country.
Gulden said, "Partly because of the fear of losing children in high-risk military operations, and partly because the family is a very important social unit in Israel, and children are the focus of the family."
28,000 in vitro procedures per year
Gulden mentioned that "having children is taken for granted here." She said that general conversations in Israel tend to ask how many children the other person has, "and if you only have 1 child, the other person will also ask why you only have 1."
Israel's health ministry says it costs the government about $3,450 per operation, though some say the actual cost should be higher.
According to a 2002 survey by Human Reproduction Alert, Israel performs 1,657 in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures per million of its population each year, the highest in the world, followed by Iceland at 899, and the United States at 126, far behind European countries.
4% of children conceived through artificial insemination
Israel's IVF rate still exceeds that of the rest of the world. Experts say that 4 percent of children in Israel are now the result of artificial insemination, compared with about 1 percent in the United States. Sunbathing can be done at the beach and lakeside. Most of the body's skin is exposed directly to the sun on the beach, and the complex effects of the sun's ultraviolet and infrared rays on the body's tissues can be used to treat diseases.
The following points should be noted when doing sunbathing: Sunbathing is best done between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. and between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. The temperature is 20-32 degrees Celsius. The temperature is most suitable when it is 20-32 degrees, below 20 degrees is too cold and above 32 degrees is too hot.
Cover up your head; it should not be exposed to direct sunlight, and it is best to wear sunglasses to protect your eyes.
Don't start with too much time in the sun, but gradually increase the time of sun exposure, usually 5-10 minutes each time at the beginning.
Not everyone is suitable for sunbathing. You should consult your doctor beforehand. Patients with acute and infectious diseases should not sunbathe.
Suitable conditions: frailty, malnutrition, hypertension, diabetes, osteoarticular tuberculosis, joint trauma, obesity, neurosis, anemia, rickets, post-surgical recovery, boils, eczema, athlete's foot and so on.
Unsuitable conditions: tachycardia, heart disease, tuberculous peritonitis, pleurisy, infiltrative nodular tuberculosis, arteriosclerosis, hyperthyroidism, fever and so on. Includes swimming in seawater or full and half body immersion in seawater in many forms.
Suitable conditions: hypertension, asthma, gastrointestinal disorders, anemia, chronic respiratory diseases, neurasthenia, frailty, obesity, gout, silicosis, urticaria, etc..
Unsuitable diseases: old age and infirmity, fever, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cerebrovascular accidents, nephritis, kidney stones, pregnancy and so on. Can be divided into warm, cool and cold several air bath. Air bath when the body surface will be directly exposed to the surrounding air.
Suitable conditions: rhinitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, frailty, anemia, mild heart disease, tuberculosis, neurofunctional diseases, etc.
Unsuitable conditions: 1. Warm air baths: fever, severe weakness; 2. Cool and cold air baths: fever, kidney disease, bleeding tendency, severe trachea, lung or heart disease, etc. Cover the affected limbs and body with warm sand. This therapy can enhance the body's metabolism, improve blood circulation and respiratory function, and promote bone tissue regeneration and other effects.
Suitable conditions: rickets, obesity, neuralgia, pelvic inflammation, chronic gastritis, sprains, fractures, arthritis and so on.
Unsuitable conditions: weakness, fever, tuberculosis, tumors, acute inflammation, heart failure and so on. A variety of mud-like substances heated and applied to certain parts of the patient to play a therapeutic effect.
Suitable conditions: chronic rheumatoid arthritis, chronic gastritis, chronic hepatitis, abdominal adhesions. Chronic otitis media, pelvic inflammatory disease, osteomyelitis, osteosynovitis, neuralgia, varicose veins, phlebitis and so on.
Unsuitable conditions: diabetes, hyperthyroidism, leukemia, pernicious anemia, tuberculosis, tuberculosis, heart failure, cerebral arteriosclerosis, tumors, hypertension, severe asthma and so on. Mineral springs for health care and medical treatment is called medical mineral springs. Different mineral springs treat different diseases. Common mineral springs include radon springs, carbonate springs, bromine springs and so on. Different mineral springs have different suitability or contraindications, and need to be selected according to the doctor's advice.