What’s called medical tourism - patients going to a different country for either urgent or elective medical procedure- is fast becoming a worldwide, multibillion - dollar industry.
Medical tourism in Aisa is growing rapidly, far outstripping the 4 to 6 percent growth in general travel bookins predicted for 2007, with the number of medical tourist visitsto many countries swelling by 20 to 30 per cent a year. The industry in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and India, currently worth around half a billion dollars a year in Asia, is projected to generate more than USD4.4 billion by 2012. Many hospitals and medical institutions that cater to the tourist market in Asia are amongst the best in the world.
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