Punjab a Perfect Destination for Medical Tourism!

by Hannah Punitha on  February 06, 2009 at 2:31 PM General Health News
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Availability of top quality medical facilities and existence of a good infrastructure in Punjab is fast making this State a perfect destination for medical tourism.

The post-graduate institute of medical education and research with its cutting edge care in different areas of eye care at economical rates is one such example.

The Advanced Eye Care Centre at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh offers a big hope to patients suffering from eye diseases.

The three-year-old state-of-the-art centre house facilities; equipment and expertise related to eye care and works as a tertiary centre with special focus on prevention and control of blindness.

It promises an entire gamut of latest facilities, including refractive surgery, phaco-emulsification and microsurgery.

"This center has been set up with prime objective of providing luxury care, that people who need a very high-level advanced care which is not existing in this part of the country. With this objective we have started this three years ago. We have been fairly successful in providing care to patients and we are now getting patients from Delhi and Mumbai - who fly in just for consultation," said Dr. Amod Gupta, the head of department of ophthalmology, PGIMER, Chandigarh.

"People are coming for consultation from abroad, from U.S. and even Europe. They want to consult us here," Dr. Gupta added.

To provide its patients with world-class infrastructure, new facilities like biochemistry and a molecular research labs and a new operation theatre have been added to the centre.

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