Overview of the Medical and Cosmetic Surgery Vacation Industry

Are you thinking about having a medical procedure done?  Whether it be a necessary heart bypass, hip replacement, or even cosmetic breast augmentation, medical surgery vacations are becoming increasingly more trendy.  Imagine having your surgery preformed in a beautiful foreign country as well as saving money all the while, sounds too good to be true?  Well it isn’t anymore!  This is now becoming possible due to the popularity of travelling to another country to obtain health care.

        There are many reasons that have led to the increase in medical travel popularity such as the lengthy wait times and the high expense of health care in industrialized countries, the simplicity and affordability of international travel and the major improvements in technology and care in many countries of the world. 

        Medical tourists come from anywhere in the world including Canada, The USA, Europe, Japan and the Middle East.  Convenience and speed are two of the many factors that are intriguing to a lot of people. For those countries who have a public health-care system, sometimes it takes considerable time to get non-urgent medical care.  In countires like Canada and Britain some people spend over two years waiting for quite common hip-replacement surgery; however, in Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Cuba, Colombia, Philippines or India, a patient could easily have their operation the day after their arrival.  There are long lists of countries offerring medical tourism and all will e discussed further into this site. 

Medical tourism for knee/hip replacements has become one of the more widely accepted procedures due to the lower cost and minimal difficulties associated with the traveling to/from the surgery. For approximately $12,000 USD, one could have their hip replacement in Singapore, and this includes all associated fees.  In comparison this same surgery if performed in the US would cost  a patient approximately $43,000 USD!  That is a huge cost difference and is proven that people would be interested in having medical surgery in conjunction with a vacation to recover!   

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