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As we have already given an introduction to the medical tourism Industry in India, from this blog onwards lets us move to the kind of packages that the Indian medical tourism industry offer to its foreign patients.Though a new destination for Medical tourism but the kind of packages offered are as par with the standard medical tourist destination across the world.

Indian Pharmaceutical sector and the Indian Healthcare sector is emerging like never before and one of the evidence for this growth is the fact that India has emerged as one of the happening destination for the Medical tourism across the world. A number of examples can easily be traced from the past.

After having seen some of the major Medical Tourism destinations of the world let us now know about some of the developing medical tourism destination in our very own Asia.

China

Cuba
Cuba a very small country next to US is one of the oldest and the most sought after medical tourist destination for the past 40 years. Every year the country attracts thousands of patients from Latin America and Europe, as the country is gifted with the fine reputation of the Cuban doctors, the low prices and nearby beaches. In 2006, 20,000 health tourists visited Cuba.

The destinations of medical tourism is spread in the various part of the globe each area having a special specialization of its own. Let’s see some of the destinations popular for medical tourism in Africa and Middle East before moving to the rest of the world.
Israel

Medical tourism is one of the terms that have gained popularity in the health care sector of many developing countries in recent times. In the next few blogs our team BLOGBUSTERS will be writing on the theme entitled Medical Tourism and the related aspects.

Therefore to begin with let us first understand what the term medical tourism means:

What is medical tourism?

Interactive health communication and disease prevention:

Two different kinds of technology make up most of the telemedicine applications in use today. The 1st, called store and forward, is used to transfer digital images from one location to another. A digital image is taken using a digital camera, stored and then sent (forwarded) by a computer to another location.

While the explosion of interest in telemedicine over the past four or five years makes it appear as a relatively new use of telecommunications technology, the truth is that telemedicine has been in use in some form or the other for over thirty years. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) played an important part in the early development of telemedicine.

Dear Readers,
In this month we the team "BLOGBUSTERS" will provide the best of information on "Healthcare in India"...
Under the vast umbrella of this theme we will be dealing with topics such as:

Health insurance
Micro health insurance
Various techniques of providing quality health care to rural India.

Hope you will enjoy reading on these topics in this month of September.