Medical Tourism

Included among the lists of top medical tourism destinations in the world, India is becoming more and more popular with people who need excellent healthcare for lower costs. Surgery in India is performed by highly-skilled surgeons in JCI accredited hospitals that rival the best hospitals in North America and Europe.

The most popular procedures sought by medical tourists include cosmetic surgery, bariatric surgery, surrogacy, orthopedic procedures, and eye surgery in India.

Low cost of surgery in India does not in any way mean they sacrifice the quality of services. The reason they are able to charge very less for medical fees and mostly everything else related to trips to the country is their very low cost of living. Aside from the medical fees, medical tourists pay very little for other things like hotel accommodations, in-country transportation services, food, and shopping.

The world is quickly becoming aware of how healthcare tourism in India can be the answer to their health issues that can hardly be addressed

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Because of its wealth of internationally-renowned hospitals and orthopaedic surgeons, more and more medical tourists choose to get knee surgery in India. In knee replacement surgery, parts of the knee joint are replaced with artificial ones in order to get rid of recurring pain in the area. It can be partial (replacing only one part) or total (replacing both cartilage and bone in the joint) knee replacement.

Most patients who need knee replacement surgery go to India as the cost is only a fraction of that in the US, UK, Canada, or Australia. The low cost of living also means that hotel rates and other logistics are much lower compared to those in other countries. Some even schedule a long visit, to allow for time to explore the culturally-rich beautiful country.

Indications and Qualifications

Some people go to India for knee replacement surgery because they have been refused the procedure by their local orthopaedic surgeon. Because they experience pain and discomfort in their knee joints on a daily basis, which limits their activities

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With heart surgery costs sky rocketing in the North America and Europe, no wonder the patients are deciding to get their heart surgery in other countries. India heart surgery centers offer the treatment at significantly lower prices. The surgery here may cost only 40% of its usual cost in the United States.

The quality of healthcare in this country is excellent, as they have many internationally-trained cardiac surgeons and JCI accredited hospitals. Many cardiac surgeons who accept foreign patients have trained in the United States in Europe, and welcome the chance of treating medical tourists who come to get their services for much lower costs.

Heart Surgery Technology in India

India’s competitiveness when it comes to state of the art facilities and latest medical developments further attracts medical tourists. Minimally-invasive heart surgery is one of the popular procedures in India. In this type of procedure, instead of opening the thoracic cavity to expose the chest area, only small incisions are made (keyholes). Advantages of minimally-invasive heart surgery include:

• Smaller incision

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Eye surgery in India is one of the biggest draws for foreigners to go to Asia for a medical trip. With its very rich culture and advanced medical institutions, India is quickly becoming one of the world’s top tourism destinations.

The most popular eye surgery procedures include:

• Laser eye surgery and refractive surgery
• Glaucoma surgery
• Cataract surgery

Among these, laser eye surgery is the latest in improving patients’ vision by reshaping the cornea and enhancing its ability to focus. Most patients who undergo laser eye surgery can end up getting 20/20 vision back, a huge relief to those who have been long suffering the effects of bad vision.

In glaucoma, vision loss is caused by the increase of pressure in the eye because of excess aqueous humor. Over time this can result to total blindness, and many patients, whose optic nerves are in danger because of glaucoma, flock to

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India has a much lower cost of living than countries in the first world. Because of this there healthcare costs are comparatively lower and like many other procedures, cosmetic surgery in India is popular among Americans, Canadians, Europeans, and even people from the Asia-Pacific region. Patients also flock to this country in South Asia because of their international hospitals and skilled Indian plastic surgeons, who boast of international training and experience.

Cosmetic Surgery Cost in India

The cost of cosmetic surgery in India can be 50-70% lower than in the US or UK. Those travelling to India also find that airfare is easily offset by hugely inexpensive medical fees, hotel rates, transportation costs, and other fees related to the trip. Patients who contact medical tourism companies also find it very handy that their itinerary for hospital visits and their accommodations and in-country transportation services are taken care of for their convenience.

Indian Cosmetic Surgeons and Hospitals

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Cataract surgery is a minimally-invasive procedure usually done on an outpatient basis. It boasts of a success rate of around 90% worldwide, with very little reported discomfort after surgery. Because of the ease with which this procedure is done, cataract surgery in India is usually scheduled with an accompanying holiday trip to some of the country’s top tourist destinations.

Cataract Surgery

With cataract, the lens of the eye – naturally crystalline – becomes opaque, resulting to vision impairment or loss. This may be due to one of the following causes:

• Trauma to the lens
• Congenital defects
• Age-related changes in the lens health
• Occurrence of underlying medical issues like diabetes, alcohol and other substance abuse

Symptoms of cataract include:

• Blurring vision
• Color fading
• Increasingly poor night vision
• Double or multiple vision
• Observance of halos around light sources

Why Choose India for Cataract Surgery?

• India is one of the world’s top

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Anterior hip replacement in India is one of the most sought-after procedures by medical tourists who go to South Asia for orthopaedic surgery. A lot of patients who have hip injuries that warrant hip replacement surgery decide on getting the anterior approach because of the shorter recovery time it requires after the procedure.

Apart from hip replacement, people come to India for knee surgery.

What is Anterior Hip Replacement Surgery?

In hip replacement, implants or prostheses are put in place of the hip joint structures in order to relieve the patient’s pain in this area. Hip replacement surgery usually involves one of the following approaches: posterior, lateral, antero-lateral, or anterior.

Traditionally, during surgery the hip joints are accessed from the back or the side, but these methods usually require the detachment of several thigh and hip muscles from the pelvis or femur. The anterior approach avoids that by using the muscles’ natural intervals so they are left untouched. It is minimally-invasive this way, and so it is preferred by patients who want shorter

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Leading Indian gynecologist talks about her specialization in myomectomy, hysterectomy and fibroid myomectomy surgery.

Education and Experience of Myomectomy Surgeon

“I am a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. I have been working from the last four years. My education was in Varanasi, in Banaras Hindu University, one of the allied universities of India.

I did my graduation from there. I graduated in the year 1990 after which I did my post graduation, which was in Delhi, in one of the teaching hospitals…hospital in Delhi and I passed out in 1995. After that I went to England where I worked there and I trained for seven years.

I obtained my MRCOG degree and learned and had the opportunity to work with renowned names like Professor Gary, who specializes in endometriosis. I specialized in myomectomies. I specialized in laparoscopic surgery and also urogynaecology which is a very upcoming field and this is mainly due to urogynaecology problems in women. That is patients with urinary incontinence. This is a problem which is seldom addressed but patients who suffer from it, they are really distressed.

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Looking for high quality uterine fibroid embolization abroad at pocket friendly rates? Then you may consider India as a good option, not for UFE but also for various other treatments like intervention radiology, varicose vein treatment etc. check our what this radiology surgeon have to say about it.

Following is the video narration.

Education and experience in Uterine Fibroid Embolization

“I have done my education like MD Radiology, then I have done my neuro radiology and I trained in United States of America in neuro and body intervention radiology.

I trained in US in John’s Hopkins in neuro and body intervention radiology and later on I worked sometime in Singapore general hospital in intervention radiology.

I took lot of talk in the lecture for a society and in Doctor’s associations and the groups. That must be like more than a hundred. And I have written some papers also, particularly in intervention radiology and in radiology also.

In intervention radiology, If you see like most of the procedures we do without surgery. And a good number of patients go for surgical procedures also but if you see

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Leading Indian cardiac surgeon talks about his expertise in the field of angioplasty and stenting of carotid arteries. With training from University of Alabama, US, he also has a US patent for device used in carotid angioplasty. Check out this video for more information.

Following is the video narration.

Education and Experience in Cardiac Surgeries

“I am trained as an interventional cardiologist; we clean up blockages in arteries all over the body. The training involved basically training in internal medicine, then we do an MD and DM in cardiology, three years training and after that we train doing the post specialized interventional work.

I had an opportunity to work in US at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. This was in the department of interventional cardiology. The UAB program was one of the top leading programs in cardiology and cardiac sciences because they had the best cardiac surgery team at that time in US and as well as the interventional cardiology. There were number of techniques which were launched while I was present over there including angioplasty.”

Angioplasty- Peripheral, Coronary, Renal, Carotid Artery

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Leading Indian gynecologist talks about her education, experience and hysterectomy surgery. Check out this video for more information.

Education and Experience – Hysterectomy Surgeon

“Basically specialize in gynae laparoscopic surgery. I have done my studies from Medical College Amritsar. I passed out my MBBS in 1986 and I am in practice from, 1994 onwards. I can talk about my research. I got the best scientist research award from the national academy of medical sciences on the polycystic ovarian disease, a syndromic allergy and I have been doing laparoscopic work from the past about now fifteen years. Looking into the various kinds of fibroids, myomectomies, hysterectomies and publish papers. I have also been awarded fellowship for the Indian Association of obs and gynaecology, and facilitated with that in the last year.

The major procedures which I have successfully done are hysterectomies and even big or small fibroids or big sized uterine. It doesn’t make a difference to me.

I have been quite professionally okay by operating laparoscopically with big, small fibroids, in big sized uterine, myomectomy of any size –

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India’s renowned Pulmonologist hashes out his education and experience. He has fellowship from the American College of Chest Physicians, diploma in interventional bronchoscopy, and expertise in infection control as his special marks of distinction.
The doctor also talks about different countries from where medical tourists are coming to Indian hospitals for their treatment .

Pulmonologist - Video Narration

“I head the Department of Pulmonology, medical critical care, sleep medicine and infectious diseases. I am basically a qualified pulmonologist having done my graduation and post graduation from here. Following that I have done a diploma in interventional bronchoscopy which is a super specialized stage in respiratory medicine which has actually given me the training to do various interventional procedures inside the lungs which includes the bronchoscopy, the thoracoscopy.”

Endobronchal lasers for lung cancer patients

“We do endobronchal lasers for lung cancer patients and also take our fluid from outside the lungs and that is a unique procedure that we are doing here, which is called “the medical thoracoscopy” which is happening at very few centers across the country. It is typically for patients who develop fluid outside their

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Leading cardiac surgeon from India hashes out his experience and education. He specializes in beating heart coronary bypass surgery. Following is the video narration.

Education and Experience of CABG Surgeon

“I am director of Department of cardiac surgery. I had my medical training here in India and then I moved to my academic training in cardiac surgery …… institute of cardiovascular surgery in Moscow.  Then I did a fellowship in cardiac surgery from university hospital Uppsala, Sweden. 1999, since then I have been working. This is a long time and we grew as the institute grew and we tried to get all the technology which is coming up in Western Europe and Northern America.

Those technologies include robotic surgery, minimally invasive surgery, beating heart coronary bypass surgeries …. Likewise.  I have been to couple of places in North America and particularly for the robotic surgery I had my basics from University of Ohio where I got basic robotic surgery and then I went for practical training to the midland…….then to Atlanta, St. Joseph hospital.

Aslo I have been visiting frequently to Cleveland clinic …… and in European arms like in

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Looking for affordable medical services for knee replacement surgery? Visit India to save time and thousands of Dollars. The country has some of the world class hospitals offering hip replacement, knee replacement, hand surgery and foot surgery at very reasonable prices. Check out what this Indian orthopedic surgeon says about the procedure.

Following is the video narration.

Education and Experience in Knee Joint Replacement Surgery

“I have basically done my education graduation and post graduation from University of Delhi and my fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and done my fellowship in sports medicine from Australia. I have had the privilege of presenting my work at various international and national forums. I presented twice at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons at Florida. I presented number of times at the British Orthopedic Institution meetings and at the meetings of Irish Orthopedic institution where I was working.

In India, I have presented fairly extensively at the Indian Orthopedic Institution meetings as well as meetings of the Indian Arthroscopy Society. We are also fairly active in the academic circles which happened in and around the national capital

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Leading Indian gynecologist hashes out her education, experience and specialization in the filed of gynecology. In addition to the routine gynecological procedures, she also specializes in cancer surgeries in gynaecology, hysterectomy, myomectomy, tubal ligation, tubal recanalization and various cystectomies. Check out this video for more details.

Education and Experience – Video Narration

“I am a senior practicing gynaecologist and obstetrician. I have been educated throughout in the capital of the country i.e. New Delhi. I have done my graduation from Maulana Azad Medical College and my post graduation and my registrarship from Lady Hardinge Medical College.

I am well versed in all routine and extensive gynae and obstetric procedures. I have been doing cancer surgeries in gynaecology, hysterectomies, laparoscopies, myomectomies, tubal ligations, tubal recanalization, various cystectomies, and all routine gynaecology procedures.”

Gynaecological treatments in India - Advantages

“I would think that as far as tubal recanalization is concerned about sixty percent tubes recanalize very well and we take infertility of the patient after that for about thirty to fifty percent.

I have been

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