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Medical Tourism: India, The Most Popular Among British Patients
October 29, 2007 at 4:29 PM
General Health News
In the first major survey of medical tourism, figures show that British citizens have travelled to 112 hospitals in 48 countries for safe, quick and affordable treatment. NHS hospitals in Britain face long waiting lists and hygiene challenged by superbugs.
The survey, conducted by the Treatment Abroad website, shows this year over 70,000 British citizens will travel abroad for medical treatment. The figure is expected to rise to 200,000 by the end of the decade.
Several websites based in India and Britain act as a single-window facility to arrange treatment for British nationals. Many of them return home, singing praises to the quality of treatment and post-operative care they received in India.
Almost all of those who had received treatment abroad said they would do the same again, with patients pointing out that some hospitals in India had screening policies for the superbug MRSA that have yet to be introduced in this country.
The survey, reported in the Sunday Telegraph, revealed that besides India, other popular destinations are Malaysia, South Africa, Hungary, Turkey, Poland and Spain. India's popularity is due to the fact that flights, hotels and a heart bypass operation there cost less than half the price charged by British private hospitals.
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