Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Travellers from across the seven seas have gone India for their medical wellbeing and in search of genuine indigenous (generic) medicines which cost half the price and have the same effectiveness. Since the 16th century Europeans have travelled for their rejuvenation therapies across the silk route.
Medical travel is a form of tourism or more specifically medical tourism.
We can specifically say these are not the same as medical travel deals with more specific and serious branches of medicine wherein surgery by admission to the hospital is required.
The patients need intervention to save their lives in specific disciplines like cardiology, oncology, orthopaedics, neurology and many more. While medical tourism basically caters more for dental and cosmetic procedures where treatments are done in day care setups and the patients or clients don’t need to be admitted to hospital for their procedures and take multiple sittings to have their procedures done.
Why medical travel?
Many countries’ healthcare systens have not yet developed and certain procedures are not performed in most countries so patients need to travel to countries like India for procedures like CABG (heart bypass surgeries), valve replacements, joint replacements, onco surgeries like breast conservation for breast cancer patients, paediatric heart.When home countries fall short in providing the level of medical care required, patients travel to undergo these lifesaving procedures in other countries like India, therefore, medical travel becomes necessary.
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