India has a long history of medical tourism dating back thousands of years. In ancient times, kings and other wealthy individuals traveled to India for specialized medical treatments by skilled practitioners like Sushruta. Today, India continues to attract medical tourists from around the world due to its combination of low costs, advanced treatments, and holistic medical approaches like Ayurveda. However, growth in India's medical tourism industry has been limited by a lack of accreditation and perceived advanced technology in many Indian hospitals. To further develop the sector, India must improve quality standards and change foreign perceptions that it remains an undeveloped nation for healthcare.

2. Presented By:
D.R.Akhil

3. Discription of Tourism
Tourism is travel for recreation, leisure, religious,
family, business purposes for a limited duration.
Tourism is travelling from one place to another place
in the same country or to the other country for
recreation, entertainment, business purposes.
In the words of world tourism organisation travelling
to and staying in places outside their usual
environment for not more than one consecutive year
for leisure, business and other purposes.

4. There are so many types of tourisms.
Mainly they are:
o Pilgrimage
o Cultural
o Space
oMedical

5. Religious Tourism

7. CULTURAL TOURISM

11. Now a days all people are going for tour for their recreation.
But for the sake of treatment purpose now all people are
coming to the other countries.
This type of tourism is called “medical tourism”.
It is not a new one. It has started thousands of years back.
In ancient period kings travels to other country for their
treatment purpose.
India has a great history of medical tourism.

12. India has a great history of medical tourism.
In olden days so many people visited India for the
sake of medical treatment.
We have a great ancient doctor “Sursutha”.
He was the first ancient doctor who made surgeries
with his equipment with out pain to the person.
His instruments are very sharp that even it cut a hair
vertically in equal parts.
We have a great book called “charakasamhita”.
It is a great book written by our ancients for our use.

13. Ancient methods of treatment

14.  It’s a natural treatment by using medicines made from
plants and roots of the trees.
 There are so many types of medicines to cure many types of
diseases.
There are so many powerful treatments in ayurvedam for
curing so many types of diseases.
These treatment methods are manuscripted talapatras and
are preserved in yallapalyan library in srilanka.
There is a very powerful treatment called “panchakarma”.
This a very powerful treatment cures so many pains in the
body.

16. An over view table of health tourism
country No. Of
foreigners treated
last year
From Money earned Strengths
Thailand 973,532 South Asia, Middle east $675mn Cosmetic surgery, organ
transplantation, dental
treatment, joint replacement.
Jordan 130,000 Middle east, America $600mn Organ transplantats, Fertility
treatment, Cardiac care.
India 150,000 Middle east, Bangladesh,
Europe nations
$33mn Cardiac care, Joint replacement,
Lasik .
Malaysia 129,318 Indonesia, Vietnam, West
asia, Japan
$27.63mn Cosmetic surgery.
South Africa 50,000 US,UK N.a Cosmetic surgery, Lasik, Dental
treatment
Cuba N.a Latin America $25m-50m Night blindness, cosmetic
surgery
Ref: Dr. C. B. Venkata Krishna Prasad Medical tourism

17. Cost and waiting time comparison
Name of
treatment
Approximat
e cost in
India ($)*
Cost in
other major
health care
destination
($)*
Approx. waiting
time in USA/UK
(in months)
1.Open heart
surgery
2.cranio-facial&
skull base
surgery
3.Neuro surgery
4.Complex spine
surgery
5.Simple spine
surgery
6.Brain tumor
surgery
7.Parkinsons
8.Hip
replacement
4500
4300
6500
4300
2100
4300
17000
4300
>18000
>13000
>21000
>13000
>6500
>10000
>26000
>13000
9-11
6-8
12-14
9-11
9-11
6-8
9-11
9-11
Ref: Dr. C. B. Venkata Krishna Prasad Medical tourism

18. New implements
IRCTC and Apollo
hospitals deal of medical
tourism coach.

19. •In India many hospitals are there but only a very few hospitals
got accreditation (not accredited by JCI).
•Due to this reason the other countries are not coming to India.
•In most of the hospitals in India, the technology is not
advanced.
•Due to this reason, the foreigners think it is not safe to get
treated in these hospitals.
•The main reason for medical tourism in India not developing
is due to the perception of India being undeveloped nation.
These are the main drawbacks.

20. Conclusion:
The care taken by the staff should be good.
India is unique as it offers holistic medical services with
yoga, meditation, ayurveda, allopathy and other medical
facilities.
For Indian healthcare institutions, the quality of service
is over biggest Usp, followed by cost advantage.
India has qualified staff to take care of the patients.
Let us hope India will develop in medical tourism within
a short period of time.

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