…Affluent Arabs used to head to hospitals in the US when they needed treatment. But now, post-Iraq, they are increasingly choosing Germany’s private clinics. With the average foreign patient spending an estimated €80,000 a stay, competition to attract the medical tourists is fierce…. by Monocle 2008…
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January 13, 2012 at 10:21 pm
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…Consumers are increasingly looking beyond their native borders for low-cost, quality healthcare – and if there’s a safari thrown into the package, all the better….
As far as we know 5 hot spots for health tourism florished in the last decade. These places offer in their geo area top level procedures to “flying patients” and sometimes lower costs.
South Africa: for plastic surgery
Singapore: 360 degrees
Israel: fertility
Hungary: Dental health
South Korea: oncology mainly