Two Indias: Medical tourism destination and malaria hotbed
Malaria ranks among the top 10 causes of death in the Northeast. According to the World Health Organization, 311 million people are at high risk of contracting the disease in India. The post Two...
View ArticleWhen grandparents want to be parents: Surrogacy’s moral quandary
The debate around surrogacy is about contracts and wombs-for-rent. But a new case is of murkier morality. Can a grieving couple use their dead son's semen sample to create a child through surrogacy who...
View ArticleGujarat keen on emerging as medical tourism hub
Principal Secretary (Tourism) Vipul Mitra said the state has evolved as a tourist destination centre in the last five to six years and insisted that it has got a lot to offer to the tourism industry as...
View ArticleNow govt to pay more for babus’ treatment abroad
IAS, IPS and IFS officers can now claim reimbursement of all the expenses they incur for treatment abroad for a period of two months. The post Now govt to pay more for babus’ treatment abroad appeared...
View ArticleIndian doctors return home to thriving medical tourism industry
Patients Beyond Borders, a US medical travel resource, says the cost of certain Indian medical procedures can be up to 90 percent lower than in the United States, making it one of the cheapest places...
View ArticleIndian industry feels quick visa for Saarc patients would boost medical tourism
The healthcare industry, at large, had always expressed apprehension about protocols and procedures that foreign patients had to go through to avail medical treatment in India. The post Indian industry...
View ArticleAs Geeta returns home, India issues visa to girl from Pakistan for transplant...
In a humanitarian gesture, India has issued a visa to a five-year-old girl from Pakistan suffering from chronic liver disease to undergo a transplant operation in the country. The post As Geeta returns...
View ArticleMisplaced priorities?: Medical tourism raises more questions than dollars
Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma on Wednesday launched the National Medical and Wellness Tourism Board to promote medical tourism from foreign countries into India. The post Misplaced priorities?:...
View ArticleWhy commercial surrogacy only in govt hospitals can end fear of touts
Those opposing commercial surrogacy including the government seem to have an unstated, oblique objection in addition to the ones that have been voiced loud and clear like the legal issues bedevilling...
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