Nation & World: India's low price, high-tech care draw "medical tourists" (Washington Post via The Seattle Times)
News story on the increasing number of 'medical tourists' (people who visit India primarily for a medical procedure). It tells the example of a carpenter from the US who chose to go to Delhi for his heart surgery because it was twenty times cheaper than getting it done in the US.
Eager to cash in on the trend, posh private hospitals are beginning to offer services tailored for foreign patients, such as airport pickup, Internet-equipped private rooms and package deals that combine, for example, tummy-tuck surgery with several nights in a maharajah's palace. Some hospitals are pushing treatment regimens that augment standard medicine with yoga and other forms of traditional Indian healing.
I wonder what happens if there are any post-surgery complications?
(Previous entry on the same subject)
Posted by Harshal at October 22, 2004 12:44 PMany very serious surgical conditions are unlikely to come up here.
otherwise our doctors are good enough to do a decent job.
till this becomes a very commercial "operation" and quality starts suffering.
till then jai hind!
post surgical complications?
there will be some.
just as any place.
the cases will have to be argued in local courts.
no one will come forward.
or the people concerned may go for off court settlements to avoid undue publicity.
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