The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is responsible for quality control in the hospitals/clinics and the Medical Council of India is similar to the UK’s General Medical Council in that all doctors must be registered with this Organisation in order to practice. The Indian Medical Association looks after the interests of doctors as well as the
community in which they practice and the Indian Health Care Federation (IHCF) is an independent non-statutory body which liaises between government, health providers, medical equipment manufacturers and other medical institutions. The IHCF has a membership of around 300 members from across India and is affiliated to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
Why choose India for treatment ?
Medical tourism in India has emerged as an attractive solution to cure health problems for those medical patients from abroad who wish to save more money plus expect a god quality medical care and health recovery facilities of an international level. As the medical technology, doctor’s training and standards of healthcare in India has got upgraded in recent years, more and more people are looking at the popularity of Indian medical tourism as it provides relief from incredibly high costs of healthcare and long wait periods for some procedures in many countries
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The advantages of medical tourism in India are many. Travelling to India allows the medical tourist to access high quality medical care at much lower prices than in the Singapore, UK, USA and in other European countries. It also avoids long waiting times for surgery and other treatments and potentially allows patients to obtain procedures not available in the UK. Medical tourists find that the cost of their treatment (including the return airfare, holiday and accommodation) leaves them with a total bill substantially less than they would have spent just on having the procedure in the UK.
India is an obvious choice for safe and cost-effective medical treatment and despite any prejudices about healthcare in developing countries India’s private hospitals have earned their reputation as world-class institutions with state-of–the-art technology and highly skilled medical personnel. Indian doctors are considered to be among the best in the world and their high level of surgical expertise evolves from many years of training. Many doctors train and work in the US, Europe or the UK after completing their studies in India.
India has a number of corporate hospitals, many of which are gaining ISO9001 standardisation status (the voluntary standardisation run by a non governmental body where hospitals must pass rigorous tests to be certified). The Indian government is also establishing minimum quality standards to reassure patients seeking treatment abroad and the Joint Commission International USA is the Gold Standard accreditation for US and European hospitals which represents the highest levels of patient care and patient safety. With attractively low prices in comparison with the West and some of the most cost-effective healthcare facilities in the world India's healthcare industry is booming as patients choose the East to undergo heart surgery, knee transplant surgery, cosmetic surgery and dentistry and reap great savings in the process. Medical tourism 'packages' often include transfers, accommodation, sight-seeing and/or a relaxing post-operative trip with the added benefits of India's legacy of health-inducing therapies like Ayurveda, yoga or meditation thrown in...........More about Treatment in India.
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