MEDICAL TOURISM - A HEALTHIER FUTURE FOR INDIA

Medical tourism, medical travel, health tourism or global health care is rapidly-growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain health care. Medical tourism can be defined as provision of ʹcost effectiveʹ personal health care/ private medical care in association with the tourism industry for patients needing surgical healthcare and other forms of dedicated & specialized treatment. This paper examines the introduction, origin of medical tourism, some facts about medical tourism in India, core competencies, opportunities, challenges medical packages and future of medical tourism in India.