Medical Tourism, Health Care Tours or the idea of visiting to a new destination for health treatment and visiting some favorite tourist places at the same time sounds very relaxing and refreshing. But traveling to new places and finding a suitable hotel to stay and a right physician to get treated is very difficult and challenging issue. India is the country where you can get all the facilities. Everyone says ‘Health is Wealth’ and even we agree with this saying because if there is no good health, no one can work hard to earn and save something to enjoy the life.

With the sky-rocketing cost of health care facilities in developed countries like the US and the UK, developing countries like India is now emerging as a major health care facilitator and a centre for medical tourism for the large populace around the globe.

Today India becomes the source for products and services in our day to day life may be an IT, Engineering, to Telecom and Health. According to a study by McKinsey and the Confederation of Indian Industry, medical tourism in India could become a $1 billion business by 2012. The report predicts that: "By 2012, if medical tourism were to reach 25 per cent of revenues of private up-market players, up to 2,297,794,117 USD will be added to the revenues of these players". The Indian government predicts that India's $17-billion-a-year health-care industry could grow 13 per cent in each of the next six years, boosted by medical tourism, which industry watchers say is growing at 30 per cent annually.

India has the most competent doctors and world class Medical Facilities. With most competitive charges for treatment; India has state of the art Hospitals with the best infrastructure, the best possible Medical facilities, accompanied with the most competitive prices

India has one of the best qualified professionals in each and every field, and this fact has now been realized the world over. Regarding Medical Facilities, India has the most competent doctors and world class Medical Facilities. With most competitive charges for treatment, India is a very lucrative destination for people wanting to undergo treatment of certain medical problems who do not need immediate emergency treatment.

Over the past years substantial investment has been made in India's Private Healthcare Sector, in excess of 100 million USD. Specialist private hospitals with expert and dedicated staff, combined with the state of the art equipment have been set in many of India's major cities to meet the needs of the country's increasingly affluent middle class comprised of about 200 million people. Private Healthcare costs in India are a fraction of those in the Western World including UK, USA and Canada. India’s private hospitals have two patient categories,
(i) Deluxe amenities and (ii) Subsidies. International patients are cared for in the deluxe category, thus do not utilize resources available for the subsidized category. On the contrary, revenues from International patients contribute towards the subsidized services. Within this deluxe category a superior service, in terms of comfort, catering and entertainment is easily tailored, for example air conditioned, en-suite private, a great choice of western menus, satellite television, provisions of English newspapers etc ..…

Price advantage is a major selling point. The slogan, thus is, “First World treatment” at “Third World prices". The cost differential across the board is huge: only a tenth and sometimes even a sixteenth of the cost in the West. Open-heart surgery could cost up to $70,000 in Britain and up to $150,000 in the US; in India's best hospitals it could cost between $9,000 and $11,000. Knee surgery (on both knees) costs 350,000 rupees ($7,700) in India; in Britain this costs £10,000 ($16,950), more than twice as much. Dental, eye and cosmetic surgeries in Western countries cost three to four times as much as in India.

For long promoted for its cultural and scenic beauty, India is now being put up on international map as a heaven for those seeking quality and affordable healthcare. Analysts say that as many as 150,000 medical tourists came to India in 2004. As Indian corporate hospitals are on par, if not better than the best hospitals in Thailand, Singapore, etc there is scope for improvement, and the country is becoming a preferred medical destination. In addition to the increasingly top class medical care, a big draw for foreign patients is also the very minimal or hardly any waitlist as is common in European or American hospitals.

There are numerous advantages of going to India for treatment. Some of the advantages of going to India for medical treatment are:

• Internationally accredited medical facilities using the latest technologies.
• Highly qualified Physicians / Surgeons and hospital support staff.
• Significant cost savings compared to domestic private healthcare. Medical treatment costs in India are lower by at least 60-80% when compared to similar procedures in North America and the UK.
• No Wait Lists
• Fluent English speaking staff
• Options for private room, translator, private chef, dedicated staff during your stay and many other tailor-made services.
• Can easily be combined with a holiday / business trip

Within India, we have partnered with world-class private care hospitals, which provide quality medical services at affordable prices for our clients. We have worked with these facilities to ensure that they will deliver a service that will meet our high expectations.

Indian corporate hospitals have a large pool of doctors, nurses, and support staff ensuring individualized care. The highly skilled personnel, with wide experience and international exposure excel in Cardiology and Cardiothoracic surgery, Orthopedic surgery, Bariatric or Obesity surgery, Gastroenterology, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, and Urology, to name a few. Our hospital partners have exclusive Cosmetic / Plastic surgery departments. Our alliance partners have Centers of Excellence in their specialty areas.

All medical investigations are conducted using the latest, technologically advanced and cutting edge diagnostic equipment. Stringent quality assurance exercises consistently ensure reliable and high quality test results in a timely manner.

The various facilities in India include full body pathology, comprehensive physical and Gynecological examinations, Dental checkup, Eye checkup, Diet consultation, Audiometry, Spirometry, Stress & Lifestyle management, pap smear, digital Chest X-ray, 12 lead ECG, 2D echo colour doppler, gold standard DXA bone densitometry, body fat analysis, coronary risk markers, cancer risk markers, carotid colour doppler, spiral CT scan and high strength MRI. Each test is carried out by professional M.D. physicians, and is comprehensive yet pain-free.
There is also a gamut of services ranging from General Radiography, Ultra Sonography, Mammography to high end services like Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Digital Subtraction Angiography along with intervention procedures, Nuclear Imaging. The diagnostic facilities offered in India are comprehensive to include Laboratory services, Imaging, Cardiology, Neurology and Pulmonology. The Laboratory services include biochemistry, hematology, microbiology, serology, histopathology, transfusion medicine and RIA.

As Indian corporate hospitals are on par, if not better than the best hospitals in Thailand, Singapore, etc there is scope for improvement, and the country may become a preferred medical destination. In addition to the increasingly top class medical care, a big draw for foreign patients is also the very minimal or hardly any waitlist as is common in European or American hospitals. In fact, priority treatment is provided today in Indian hospitals.

Even though India has many different languages, English is widely spoken. All hospitals have excellent English speaking staff and language or communication is very easy. If English is not your native language, AHMTPL can arrange translators in most major international languages to be with you during your Indian tour.

India has kept pace with the latest in technology and its application has been widely felt in the health industry. Moreover, India's strong pharmaceutical sector has gained international recognition and contributed to the growth of medical tourism in India.