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Canadians are increasingly looking to India for timely medical treatment as wait periods under the country's public health system get longer. Many are saying they would recommend India to anyone seeking 'world-class health care' at a small cost. At the conference on medical tourism to India in Toronto, Canadians who benefited from medical treatment - heart operation, spine surgery or knee transplant - in India sang praises of the Indian healthcare system. Narrating their experiences at the three-day 'India: Medical Tourism Destination 2009' conference, they lauded Indian hospitals, doctors and after-care as among the very best in the world. Indian healthcare is affordable to the foreigners....
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Subhasis Bhattacharya
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Indian private corporate hospitals have the best clinical skills and infrastructure in the world. The accreditations achieved resonates the value proposition the private healthcare commands. This has paved way for medical tourism and through...
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Pushkar
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There's a huge divide in terms of quality of health care in urban vs rural areas & private vs govt hospitals especially in terms of hygiene, technology & time required. But i do feel that doctors or for that matter all health professionals in govt...
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Sudeep Tarafdar
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I don't think this is true for the case of common people in India. For the people of US and European countries, the world class healthcare facilities in the private hospitals will be affordable and cheap. But for the most Indian, its an expensive one
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Fortis Healthcare, India’s second-largest healthcare service provider, plans to come up with a new model of healthcare delivery for tier-II and-III towns. It intends to set up smaller hospitals with a capacity for up to 200 beds, which will provide treatment at nearly 50% less cost than in the present facilities. To ensure viability of the model, Fortis is also looking at halving the investment per bed for such hospitals. For starters, the company will set up two such facilities, one each in the North and the West, by 2011-12 “There’s a huge need to develop quality hospitals for the masses in the hinterland. In fact, India can accommodate hundreds of such hospitals. We have been working on ...
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Pushkar
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I dont think it will be cheaper than any pvt clinic run by individual doctors, instead i think govt should incentivise investment in health sector in rural areas by giving tax sops like those for IT sector ( tax holiday for 10 yrs )& in return ask...
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Dayanand Deshpande
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I believe that this is a good move to extend the health care facilities to tier II & III cities rather than concentrating on the metros. If Fortis can provide the same treatment like in their metro hospitals, at a cheaper cost, than it will be...
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