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Medical
tourism set to take off in a big way
With world class healthcare professionals, nursing care and
treatment cost almost one-sixth of that in the developed countries,
India is witnessing 30 per cent growth in medical tourism
per year. According to a CII-McKinsey study, medical tourism
can contribute Rs 5,000-10,000 crore additional revenue for
up-market tertiary hospitals by 2012.
‘Medical
tourism is becoming a common form of vacationing’
With Apollo Hospitals, Chennai focusing on marketing medical
tourism, George Eapen, CEO, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai spoke
on the emerging medical tourism sector and his hospital’s
efforts to G Sankaranarayanan
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