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Travelling to the best corners of the world for elective or urgent medical treatments is a burgeoning multi-billion dollar industry. Medical tourists from European countries seek treatment elsewhere considering the affordability factor. While others see medical tourism as a way of combining a tropical vacation with rejuvenation treatments.

 

Countries such as Cuba, Costa Rica, Hungary, India, Israel, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Thailand, Belgium, Poland, Singapore and South Africa are at the forefront in medical tourism.

 

 

Leading from the front in medical tourism, India has been growing at a rate of 30 percent every year and is now expanding into “medical outsourcing” as well. Patients who flock to India for medical care usually receive a package deal that includes flight transfers, travel options within India, hotel accommodation, specialized treatments, bilingual assistance and post-operative vacation.

 

 

India’s vivid culture, historic past, traditional values and breath-taking locales make it a highly-desired destination. Not one step behind is the country’s well-developed healthcare systems, world-class doctors and technological prowess.

 

Medical tourism packages to India offer the best of both worlds by combining tropical vacations with holistic treatments / healthcare at a universally affordable price. International medical tourists can expect the best in quality and care during their treatment and aftercare vacation in India.

 

 

India has world-class hospitals that have oncology units comprising of surgical oncology, medical, radiation therapy as well as Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT). The BMT unit featuring high pressure hipa filters plays a key role in achieving an exceptionally high success rate in various types of transplantation. Remarkably significant transplants include Cord Blood Transplant and Mismatched Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant wherein the success rate doubles on account of cost-effectiveness. Both treatments, when conducted in India, costs just ¹/₁₀^th of what the same amounts to in the West. Also availble are specialists for organ surgery and renowned plastic surgeons for head / neck cancer, breast cancer and other malignancies. Modern infrastructure and facilities include tele-therapy, simulation work stations for precision and safety during treatments at the 18 MV linear accelerator or telecobalt machines, brachy therapy and 3-D planning systems. The Ilizarov technique is practised in orthopaedics for treating limb deformities, limb shortening and disfiguration.

 

India has innumerable hospitals that are widely acclaimed for their achievements in research and clinical innovations related to neurology and head injuries. This includes the controversial Stem Cell Research & Treatment as well as services such as, the new Vagus Nerve Stimulator, for intractable (hard to treat) epilepsies, brain stem injuries etc. The Gamma Knife procedures at hospitals in India cost ¹/₅^th of what it costs in most US hospitals. Planet Hospital also extends full support to patients in locating a hospital that offers the following:

 

 

 

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Treatments for brain tumors include Gliomas, Astrocytomas, Ependymomas, Medulloblastomas, Oligodendrogliomas, Schwannomas, Pituitary adenomas & Meningiomas

 

 

 

 

 

Cardiac Care is a speciality sector in India with renowned hospitals like Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Apollo Hospital becoming names to reckon with. These institutions are well-equipped to handle all phases of heart diseases, right from the elementary to the latest clinical procedures such as interventional cardiac catherisation and surgical cardiac transplants. The success rate, which is an average of 98.50%, is at par with leading cardiac centres around the world.

 

Leading heart centres such as The Escorts Heart Institute are facilitated with Cardiac Care Units that have sophisticated equipments and investigative facilities like Echocardiography with coloured Doppler, Nuclear Scanning and Coronary Angiography. Some of the renowned names in India that are exclusively dedicated to Cardiac treatment are The Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology in Bangalore, the Cardiology Hospital in Kanpur, the Heart Hospital in Calicut and the Sree Sudhindra Medical Mission Hospital in Cochin.

 

 

 

A new dimension of the medical field taking off in India is cosmetic surgery which utilises some of the latest techniques in corrective procedures. A few instances of corrective surgery include hair restoration (hair implants, hair flaps, and scalp reductions), rhinoplasties (reshaping or recontouring of the nose), stalling of the aging process (face life, cosmetic eyelid surgery, brow lift, sub-metal lipectomy for double chin), demabrasions (sanding of the face,) otoplasty for protruding ears, chin and cheek enlargement, lip reductions, various types of breast surgery and reconstruction and liposuction. Non-invasive surgical procedures like streotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy for brain tumours are also being practised with cent percent success.

 

 

 

Emergence of new therapeutic interventions in India have been pivotal in managing the progression of renal diseases that are usually a result of common diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and chronic glomerulo-nephritis. Major hospitals in India such as  Holy Family Hospital, Jaslok Hospital, Apollo Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Batra Hospital, Bombay Hospital and Hinduja Hospital have departments of Nephrology and Organ Transplant that are equipped with the latest computerised dialysis machines, reverse osmosis water plant to provide pure and trace element-free water supply, as well as state-of-the-art facilities in the operating rooms and Transplant Intensive Care Units.

 

Those who require renal replacement therapy can also benefit from services like Hemodialysis, Chronic Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) and Transplantation, all of which are available in India. In addition to haemodialysis facilities, patients can benefit from Continuous Arterio-Venous Haemofilteration (CAVH), Continuous Veno-Venous Haemofilteration (CVVH), Continuous Cycler-Assisted Peritioneal Dialysis (CCPD) and Bicarbonate dialysis facility at these centres. Round-the-clock service is available for critically-ill patients at Intensive Care Units. The cost for dialysis ranges from around Rs.1,700 to Rs.1,800 per dialysis whereas the same procedure costs around $300 in the U.S.A. Similarly a kidney transplant package is available in India for around Rs. 3 lakh which is comparatively far more cheaper than what it costs abroad.

 

 

Shoulder / hip replacement and bilateral knee replacement surgery using the most advanced keyhole or endosopic surgery and anthroscopy is performed at several hospitals in India including the Apollo Hospital, Sri Ganga Ram Hospital, Holy Family Hospital in Delhi, Bombay Hospital, Leelavati & Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai as well as Madras Institute of Orthoepaedics and Trauma Sciences. Quite a few hospitals such as the Apollo in Delhi have Operation Theatres with Laminar Air Flow System which is at par with the best in the USA and UK. In India, a knee joint replacement costs about Rs. 2.50 Lakh whereas in the UK, a similar surgery using the same implants and medical consumables costs around £10,000.

 

 

Most life-threatening maladies can be treated successfully if detected early. Almost all leading hospitals in India have health check-up programmes that screen every part of the body meticulously and professionally. A heart check-up constituting of echocardiography, consultation with a senior cardiologist, blood test, general test and haemogram can go a long way in ensuring a healthy heart. The test

 

A comprehensive health check-up contains the following tests and can be done at any of the leading cardiac hospitals or private clinics in India.

 

Several super-speciality hospitals in India offer comprehensive Urological services to diagnose and treat stone disease, urological cancer, incontinence, infertility, impotency and other urinary difficulties. Thanks to complementary methods of treating stones endoscopically, advanced methods such as lithotripsy are available for treating kidney and ureteric stones without surgery. Advanced machines such as the ‘Lithostar’ obvert the need for anaesthesia in the treatment of kidney and ureteric stones. World-class facilities for treating prostate / bladder cancers, urethral strictures are also available. In addition to doppler studies for the assessment of blood flow, investigation and treatment facilities for impotence and male/female infertility exists with specialised facilities for pharmacotherapy, cavernosometry and cavernosography.

 

 

Removal of the gall bladder, the spleen, the bowel and other organs such as the adrenals, operation for prolapse rectum and hiatus hernia repair have become fairly commonplace at almost all the major speciality hospitals in India. Seasoned professionals are easily available and accessible; moreover, the workload at most of these hospitals ensures that the doctors have years of experience behind them. High intensive care treatment at relatively cheaper rates are available at most of these centres.

 

 

Rehabilitation is a continuous process that is an absolute necessity in improving ones quality of life after injury or surgery. India’ hospitals offer world-class, affordable and comprehensive rehabilitation programmes, as mentioned below:

 

If you seek anonymity in your quest for sobriety from drugs or alcohol, you cannot get any more anonymous than being thousands of miles away at a place where they do not know you. If you want affordable rehab, then hospitals in India can definitely help you, with great discretion, aided by doctors who are dedicated to dealing with both the mental and physical symptoms of withdrawal. The varied treatments include: