Who’s afraid of the digital divide? - III

Could information and communication technology (ICT) be that great leveller that has eluded society from the beginnings of modern civilisation?

At a macro level, it's pretty well-known how ICT has impacted and transformed every field from agriculture and medicine to meteorology and aeronautics. But in the context of ICT for development and bridging the digital divide, what is really of concern is to extend the benefits of technology to people who have traditionally been left out of the game. When we talk of the technology 'have-nots,' our goal is not necessarily to get them all to use and buy computers or mobile phones. Yet there are innumerable specific areas in which ICT can be used to improve the lives of this underprivileged lot and provide them with opportunities that would otherwise be unlikely to come their way. Information technology is also enabling microfinance systems, which in turn encourage microenterprise, stemming the endless and unsustainable rural-to-urban migration that's the bane of the developing world. Here are but a few examples of how ICT is improving the life of rural populations in India, which as a country has been witness to the entire range of problems as well as potential solutions associated with the digital divide.

Telemedicine: Tens of thousands of villages in the rural areas of the poorer countries remain without adequate healthcare facilities. Even as primary healthcare centres and makeshift dispensaries are being constructed, there is a perennial shortage of trained doctors and nurses. For instance, India has just one doctor for every 15,000 people, and specialists are even rarer. Almost 70 percent of India's population is rural, while over 80 percent of doctors live in cities. But, with videoconferencing and remote diagnostic kits, thousands of villagers are now inexpensively enjoying the same level of treatment as their urban counterparts. One company, Neurosynaptic Communications, has developed inexpensive telemedicine kits with facilities for checking blood pressure, body temperature and ECG. The kit is also equipped with an electronic stethoscope, and soon will have other physiological and biochemical tests integrated. The diagnostic kit is connected to a kiosk with videoconferencing facilities, and readings are transmitted over low bandwidth links, permitting interaction between the doctor and remotely located patient, and hopefully, more accurate diagnosis. Apart from the obvious extension of quality healthcare to areas that couldn't before afford it, this system could bring down the cost of rural healthcare in India by a third.

 

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A revolutionary diagnostic kit

With these low cost devises, patients can access specialist medical opinion at low cost

Venkatachari Jagannathan
9 June 2004

Chennai: An electro cardio gram (ECG) test for Rs25? Whats more, an electronic ECG / stethoscope / thermometer / blood pressure / pulse measuring equipments and a software that enables video conferencing / electronic archiving and printing of medical records caan be had for Rs.10,000!

Well that is what the two young and enterprising promoters of the Neurosynaptic Communications (P) Ltd, Sameer S Sawarkar (31) CEO and Rajeev Kumar (32), COO, have done with their sexy five-in-one device, but christened unexcitingly as remote diagnostic equipment. At the market, the traditional equipment would cost around Rs.40,000, all together.

The battery-run device resembling an overgrown television stabiliser, is expected to revolutionalise healthcare delivery in rural areas and also help practicising doctors in managing their clinics.

Though all the measuring equipments look alike their traditional counterparts, the main components of the remote diagnostic equipment are electrodes and probes for ECG, temperature, blood pressure measurement, electronic stethoscope, a headphone for sound capture and the software. The ECG channel comes in two variants — a 5-lead, 7-channel devise and a 10-lead,12-channel piece. Incidentally, the temperature probe is designed to take the body heat under the armpit.

So how does this system work? Imagine a village internet kiosk with a personal computer and a printer. The remote diagnostic equipment is connected to the PC and the required software is loaded. The kiosk PC is then connected to the doctor's PC through a video / audio conferencing facility.

Once a villager comes to the kiosk, he can talk to the doctor via the video / audio conferencing facility. The doctor then activates the remote diagnostic equipment at the kiosk from his PC and advises the kiosk operator to take the patient's temperature (keeping the probe under the armpit). The doctor can see the reading on his computer. The diagram resembles the image that appears whenever we download something from the web.

 

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From a clinic around the corner to 'The Clinic' around the corner

Studies indicate that long-term illnesses like diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, asthma and heart diseases are in fact a result of one's lifestyle. Dr. Ankit Khambhati, CEO, The Clinic, says, 'Today, in India, there is one doctor for every 10000 people, thus a deficit of more than 6 lakh doctors nationwide. The Clinic Network is rapidly growing to fill the gap of providing quality assured healthcare with a focus on prevention and management of lifestyle diseases'.

The Clinic enables you to store your medical records online, and makes them available to you when you need them most. This electronic storage of medical records is done through an internationally certified software system. The software will give the doctor a quick view of the patient's medical history, medications, specialists' opinions and test reports. The services offered by Doctors and other healthcare providers in this network are coordinated to ensure high quality and standardized healthcare for you and your family. And the good news is this facility is available with your neighbourhood family physician!

 

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UNISSI (India) Private Limited: Innovation is Key

It keeps on adding latest technique for medical products and services with product range to improve safety and convenience

UNISSI (India) Private Limited is serving medical fraternity for more than three decades with the aim to provide latest and best medical technologies available in the world. It is promoted by Gulshan Verma, Chairman cum Managing Director. Now, his son Kunal Verma presently studying Engineering in the USA is likely to join the business to boost further diversification.

UNISSI has strong work force of about 100 dedicated professionals working together to provide efficient after sale service support. The guiding philosophy behind this strong team is that of leadership attained by providing quality products and services to the healthcare industry in India. "Innovation is the name of the game. We constantly keep on adding latest technique for medical products and services with product range to improve safety and convenience for the patients as well as the caregivers," says Gulshan Verma.

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Frontier Lifeline Reaches out to Rural Women

Six young women from villages have been selected who are undergoing training in stem cell, tissue culture, tissue engineering and biotechnology

 

Frontier Lifeline and the Dr KM Cherian Heart Foundation, Chennai has been keenly involved in rural health enhancement programmes. This can be seen through various initiatives taken earlier such as the first rural cardiac specialty hospital offering tertiary level cardiac care in a village in Parumala, Kerala and numerous free cardiac screening camps widely conducted at frequent intervals in various parts of rural Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Frontier Lifeline's foray into North East India through its collaboration with the North East Indra Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) in Shillong, Meghalaya is another note-worthy effort.

On the occasion of women's day, a unique endeavor of Frontier Lifeline came into focus. As an extension of its forthcoming medical village project (Frontier Mediville), six young women from villages around the project site, who have completed up to 10th standard, have been selected and are currently undergoing a specialised training in technical aspects of stem cell, tissue culture, tissue engineering and biotechnology. This is a practical demonstration of its commitment to the rural population.

The initial batch of six women trainees is indicative of the increasing number of qualified village women who will be absorbed and trained as the project develops. The specialised technical skills learnt by them will lead to sustainable and gainful employment within the project, specifically in the National Medical Science Park and in the sterile bio-corridor which will facilitate production of consumables, disposables, pharmaceutical products required at the hospital and research laboratories.

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Critical Care Needs to Improve in Rural Areas

Criticare 2008, the 14th International Congress of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM), equipped medical practitioners with an opportunity to network and share their most recent experiences, evidences and knowledge that have helped and can help in improving the outcome of critically ill patients. The five-day event was held from February 13 to February 17 at Noor-us-Sabah, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (MP). Dr RK Mani, President, ISCCM, spoke to Aashruti Kak and Manjusha Morgaonkar about the success of the event. Excerpts:

 

Please brief us about ISCCM.

Criticare is an annual national conference organised by the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM), a non-profit association of Indian physicians, nurses, physiotherapists and other allied healthcare professionals involved in the care of the critically ill. This was the first time that Criticare had set its feet on MP soil, and was also the first time that MP had hosted an international event of such magnitude. The theme of the event, 'Evidence guidelines and enforcement', was chosen in a bid to overcome the challenges faced by the healthcare community at the dawn of the new millennium, and to discuss the present scenario in order to find ways to counter the shortcomings associated with the above three links of improvement.

The event saw eminent leaders and veterans in the field of critical care medicine discussing the global successes and the shortcomings in the super specialty field. About 1,500 delegates from India and abroad had attended the conference. Also, international faculties from various countries and more than the best national faculties were the major attraction and contributors of the event. The scientific programme comprised plenary session lectures, panel discussions, workshops, orations, poster presentations, and free papers. A multi-dimensional scientific exhibition had also been organised, showcasing different companies dealing in medical and non-medical products, instruments, etc. The conference included the pre-conference CME, pre-conference workshops, distinguished international faculty, plenary session, thematic sessions, pro-con debates, and symposia. Pre-conference workshops covered subjects such as airway management in intensive care unit, intensive care nutrition and infection control.

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'India has the Potential to Become Self-sufficient in the Next 10 years'

Dr GSK Velu, Managing Director, Trivitron, discusses how the Indian medical device industry, which is full of opportunities, can be at the forefront with the help of government initiatives, with Arshiya Khan. Excerpts:

 

Please elaborate on the market scenario of medical device technology in India

According to official statistics, the number of clinics and hospitals has increased almost four times from that in the 1950s. This has also increased the demand for medical equipment which has made the medical device sector one of the most promising markets in India. Even more alluring than the size of the market is its projected growth. The demand for medical equipment is rising annually at an impressive rate of 15 per cent. The Indian healthcare sector has seen progressive increase in investments in healthcare infrastructure and facilities, especially hi-tech medical devices.

With input industries to medical technology sector such as electronics industry, biotech industry, IT industry and sheet metal fabrication booming in India, India can easily position itself as an alternate medical equipment and devices manufacturing destination to China, if the Government of India provides right impetus to this initiative.

Can you track the growth and trends in this segment?

Overall, medical equipment forms a promising opportunity within healthcare. An analysis by Ernst & Young pegs the global/domestic medical equipment industry at $2.17 billion (Rs 9,790 crore) in 2006 growing at 15 per cent per year, to reach $4.97 billion (Rs 22,396 crore) by 2012.

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Tech Challenges Faced by Labs

The advancement of lab automation in the clinical diagnostics industry is continuing to expand as more suppliers enter the market with expanded automation options, and as shortages of lab personnel aggravate with increase in test volume in the industry

 

Imagine if there could be a time when the only human intervention in getting a blood test done would be the drawing of the sample and typing in the patient details in the system. Everything else right from bar code generation, labeling, transporting of samples to the processing area, loading on the processor, testing and report generation, report uploading on the website, intimation on report status over mobile to the customer etc is done automatically and on real time.

Diagnostics - Current Trends

The advancement of lab automation in the clinical diagnostics industry is continuing to expand as more suppliers enter the market with expanded automation options, and as shortages of lab personnel and increase in test volume in the industry require labs to perform more tests with fewer technologists. There are only about 300 labs worldwide that have installed total lab automation systems capable of handling all aspects of the testing process, from loading of the specimen tube to result generation for all the major lab disciplines (chemistry, immunochemistry, and haematology), while a number of others have automated one or more sections of the lab. The trend toward increased use of automation is expected to continue, with most of the growth in workstation-based automation rather than total lab automation

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Telepathology: The Future of Pathology

With the great urban and rural divide in healthcare, telepathology can be a great asset to diagnostic healthcare

 

In today's digital world, telemedicine is an advancing science. Connecting healthcare givers across distances, telepathology is one of the significant applications of telemedicine. The telepathology services by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in the US is one of the best models of telepathology that many pathologists rely on. In the Indian economy, with the great urban and rural divide in healthcare, telepathology can be a great asset to diagnostic healthcare. In rural India that lack good pathology set-ups and in urban India where pathology group practice is yet to catch up, telepathology can be a well applied technological tool.

Telepathology is the electronic transmission of pathological images usually derived from microscopes, from one place to another for interpretation and diagnosis. Essentially, it involves a slide scanner, a large computer server and large bandwidth network links. The images transmitted can be still images or a video clip which again can be live or stored and forwarded transmissions. The images transmitted could be selected by the person sending them or with the advanced software, the recipient can have remote control of the microscopic stage, focusing and objectives. In fact, it is possible to digitally scan the whole slide and produce a virtual slide for actual viewing by a virtual microscope.

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Diagnosing Growth

The Indian pathology industry is all geared up to become the most successful growth story in the Indian healthcare industry. Sonal Shukla explores its future potential

 

Just browse through any industry expert's opinion on the Indian healthcare growth story and you are bound to hear them enthusing about the pathology market. And why not? This sector's fast-paced growth is too apparent to be ignored. The diagnostic giants are expanding their presence not just in India, but also in overseas territories like the Middle East Gulf and the US. The spectrum of their test menu is expanding in the areas of genetics, cancer, endocrinology, infectious diseases and molecular diagnostics. They are trying an interesting mix of business models to penetrate not just tier I but also tier II and tier III markets.

According to a CII and Cygnus report, the Indian pathology sector is worth about $1 billion and is growing at 15 per cent per annum. A tremendous unmet market need for all healthcare services is said to have given a fillip to this growth. Factors like rising income and wealth are changing attitudes towards healthcare, and an increase in lifestyle diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and acute cardio-vascular conditions is creating a need for diagnostics testing. India has emerged as a global R&D hub for the pharmaceutical industry, and, as a result, is a strong market for clinical trials and central lab services. There is also a shift in focus from the treatment of illness to wellness and prevention, and an emerging opportunity in women's health services as well.

Excerpts from Sneha Diagnostics:

Sneha Diagnostics has focused on district centres and satellite centres at taluk level. However, it has identified many challenges in the process of penetrating these markets. "Challenges include low per capita income levels (where people are very conscious of the price they pay) and price competition with local highly unorganised and 'zero quality' players. And when every local medical practitioner has his/her own small lab where they enjoy 90 per cent direct profit it takes more time and effort and perseverance for businesses like us to convince the customer about the advantage and disadvantages of quality test results," says KK Mohan Raju, Founder and Chairman, Sneha Diagnostics.

 

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Profile: Elbit Medical Diagnostics Limited, Hyderabad, India

Elbit is established as the seamless link between doctors, the hospitals, in-house consultants and the visiting patients as a trustworthy Quality Service Provider, attending to all their Medical Diagnostic needs. Elbit presently enjoys a noticeable existence in the Health Care Industry. Elbit offers a winning combination of contemporary equipment, international technology and effective personal care. Elbit provides the patients and their families with high-standard medical care and the most qualitative and quantitative data regarding the etiology and pathogenesis of a disease. This valuable data assists clinicians with diagnosis, patient stratification, drug prescription, and prognosis. Elbit Medical Diagnostics Ltd. is committed to "continually raise the Standards of excellence in Medical Diagnostics, by using the latest technology, through trained and qualified professionals to achieve and maintain the highest level of patient care based on proven scientific principles, administered with empathy and insight". Elbit is developed as a repository tool to bring health to the forefront. Elbit enables patients to access the high quality medical diagnostic services using the most advanced equipment. Elbit has set-up sprawling, centrally air conditioned centers at Hyderabad and Bangalore to bring about a revolution in the field. Elbit aims at developing centers across India to help Humankind with modern Medical Diagnostics facilities.

Sri Anantha Chary holds the pivotal position in the management of the Chary group of companies. After taking on the role of successor to Sri M. P. Chary, he was able to demonstrate his group companies have been set on a fast track of progress and prosperity. On obtaining his masters degree in chemistry and further two years of research in the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Sri Anantha Chary took up various functional responsibilities in the Chary group of companies. For over decade, he was also involved as a director of strategic planning for the group. Sri Anantha Chary Chairman

When the time came for someone to assume the responsibility as the head of the group after the sudden and unfortunate demise of the group's founder, Sri Anantha Chary's vast knowledge and rich experience marked him as the most natural choice to fill this position. Today, under his dynamic leadership, the group looks forwards to significantly expand in it scope and have a far-reaching impact on the society.

Our Vision
	"To continually raise the standards of excellence in medical diagnostics, achieve and maintain the highest level of patient care based on proven scientific principles, administered with empathy and insight".
	Our Values
	Elbit has always strived to be a value driven organization. The core values influencing our operations are:
	Personal Care: We care, respect and show compassion and humanity to all who call on us and are associated with us.We try our best to surpass their expectations.
	Integrity: We conduct our business fairly with honesty and transparency.
	Fairness: We are fair, sincere and ethical in all our deals to create an environment of trust and respect.
	Excellence: We constantly strive to be the quality service provider leveraging technology and delivering the best to the society at large.
	Responsibility: We are sensitive to those who call on us in pain and distress and try our very best to ease them of their stress and tension.
	Our business practices are guided by the highest ethical standards of truth, integrity and transparency.

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Fleury Diagnostics: A Brazilian Lab Powerhouse

I want to call your attention to Fleury Diagnostics which started in 1926 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as a clinical laboratory and evolved into a multi-specialty diagnostic enterprise. Here is the Fleury web site.

Fleury offers more than 2,000 different types of diagnostic tests, in addition to CP and AP. These include nuclear medicine, radiology, cardiology, neurology, otorhynolaringology, urology, pneumology, endoscopies, bronchoscopies, hysteroscopies, and tests in fetal medicine. Fleury has a staff of 270 physicians and a total of 1,600 employees.

Lab test ordering in Brazil is different than in the U.S. The physician initiates the test order but the patient decides which lab to submit the requisition to. Test results are delivered back to the patient and not to the physician.  As a result, many Brazilian labs tend to be very consumer-oriented. Fleury, for example, prides itself on limiting the wait-time for a customer to have a blood specimen drawn to a few minutes.

Rogerio Rabelo, MD, PhD, MBA, is the Director of New Business for Fleury and a frequent lecturer at U.S. lab meetings, particularly on ISO standards. He presented a lecture on this topic at the AACC annual meeting last July. Here is the AACC conference brochure for 2005.

Below is a summary of his presentation at the IQLM 2005 conference from the Medscape web page. Bold face emphasis is mine. Here also is the link to the proceedings of the IQLM 2005 conference at which he spoke for those who want a quick review of lab quality issues.

 

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A Call for the Development of Integrated Diagnostic Centers

I will be delivering a lecture to the 42nd annual Congress of the Brazilian Society of Clinical Pathology (Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica; SBPC) on July 3, 2008, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The lecture is entitled "Integrated Diagnostics Emerges as a Key Element in Healthcare." The lecture will address the development of integrated diagnostic centers (IDCs) which I believe will play an important role in the future of healthcare delivery. Below is a summary of this presentation that I was asked to write for the SBPC web site.

The general field of diagnostics, with molecular diagnostics and medical imaging at its core, is undergoing an explosion of knowledge providing the potential to diagnose disease in its pre-clinical pre-symptomatic stage before any physical manifestations are present. Such a new approach to healthcare will be very disruptive for clinicians who have been trained to suspect the presence of disease on the basis of a patient history and a physical exam. This new perspective on disease diagnosis sets the stage for the emergence of "integrated diagnostic centers" (IDCs) staffed by pathologists, lab medicine specialists, and radiologists. A patient would be referred to an IDC by a primary care physician, at which time the physicians in the diagnostic center would assume total responsibility for diagnosing the patient's disease, assessing the prognosis of the disease, and making some therapeutic recommendations. This IDC concept is well known in Brazil where it has already been executed on a large-scale basis.

 

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50 Best Medical Libraries on the Web

By Alisa Miller

When searching for information on health and well-being, there is an incredible number of websites to visit. Several sites offer quite a bit of information, and it's not always easy to know where to go for your research. Below, find the 50 best medical libraries grouped within five different categories to help you find what you need to know.

For Non-Professionals Everyone from parents to the individual will at some time have a health question or concern. The websites below offer comprehensive, helpful information that is easily understandable for the average person.

1. WebMD. For comprehensive, easy-to-understand medical information, this site is one of the best. The average person can use the symptom checker, click on informative articles, or find prescription drug information and come away knowing much more about medicine than they did before visiting WebMD.
2. MayoClinic.com. Research diseases and conditions, drugs and supplements, and treatment decisions on this website sponsored by one of the premier health care facilities in the nation. You can also ask a specialist or stay informed on specific topics via blogs and podcasts.
3. Hardin MD. Sponsored by the University of Iowa, this site allows you to search for a disease or general health topic alphabetically to get links to a variety of online articles and photos about each disease. You can also view photos from classic medical books via this site.
4. Medicine in theYahoo! Yahoo! offers an alphabetical listing of several health subjects with links to more information. While this site is a bit cumbersome to search, it does link to helpful information on a variety of subcategories beneath each topic.
5. Health on the Net Foundation. Not only can you search for specific topics on any imaginable health topic, but once your results pop up in the window, you can click on different tabs to find conference information, news, and images that relate to your query without re-typing the keyword. Since this site is sponsored by the UN, you may receive results in French, Spanish, or Chinese as well as English.
6. The Merck Manuals. Sponsored by one of the pharmaceutical big-league companies, this online resource allows you to search by keyword or alphabetically to find descriptions as well as diagnosis and treatment information. They also offer a resource section with anatomical drawings, common medical tests, pronunciations, drug information, and more.
7. MedlinePlus. A collaborative effort from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, this site offers 750 health topics, a dictionary, medical encyclopedia, news, and directories to find physicians. If you can't get enough of the information available on MedlinePlus, sign up to get email updates and RSS feeds on any information added to the site or breaking health news.
8. MedicineNet.com. Look for health news, information on specific diseases, and learn about prescription medicine at this site compiled by experts in the field. Check out the Procedures & Tests and MedTerms Dictionary sections.
9. Healthline. Searching for diagnoses and treatments and staying on top of health and wellness is easy with this medical site. Also visit the top 10 diagnostic tests or browse their dictionaries.
10. PDRHealth. Sponsored by the publishers of Physician's Desk Reference, this site offers information on prescription, over-the-counter, and herbal medications. They also offer information on diseases, clinical trials, and offer interactive treatment option tools for several diseases.
11. YourHealthInformation.com. Click on the tabs at the top to get the latest health news, access the health library, learn about health topics and healthy living. Included is information about over-the-counter drugs and alternative medicine.

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GE Medical Partners with UPMC in Pathology Imaging Venture

GE Medical and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) are launching a pathology imaging business (see: GE, Pittsburgh hospital establish imaging business). Below is an excerpt from the article:

General Electric Co....is investing $20 million in technology that will allow doctors to share and transmit images of microscopic human tissue....GE Healthcare and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are each putting up $20 million to establish Omnyx LLC, a business to develop and commercialize technology allowing doctors to store and display on computers, digital images of human tissue from microscope slides, allowing colleagues anywhere to participate in consultations. Jeffrey Romoff, president and chief executive of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said the deal "puts together the people — GE — that know the technology and the market with us, who know the science and the patient care."... "Pathology imaging is a natural extension that GE would likely want to get into," said Gene Cartwright, chief executive of Omnyx. ...Omnyx promises to come up with a product in about two years that will speed up scanning materials from a slide into a digital file from between two and five minutes now to about half a minute, he said.

 

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MEDICAL TOURISM EARNINGS TO GROW BY Rs.8000 CRORES IN 2012

By: Bharat Ratna

Easy access of Visa facilities often permitted by India to overseas patients coupled with best emerging medical infrastructure facilities in its large and tertiary towns, prospects of India Medical Tourism becoming a lead foreign exchange earners will grow to an extent of Rs. 8000 crore by 2012.

What is Medical Tourism?

India offers World Class Medical Facilities, comparable with any of the western countries. India has state of the art Hospitals and the best qualified doctors, nurses & other quality services. With the best infrastructure, the best possible Medical facilities, accompanied with the most competitive prices, you can get the treatment done in India at the lowest charges.

Medical Tourism India - Where the entire world meets for the best in Health Care

India has one of the best qualified professionals in each and every field, and this fact has now been realized the world over. Regarding Medical Facilities India has the most competent doctors and world class Medical Facilities. Medical Tourism in India is one of the best options available to people across the globe. Millions come every year to get treated and then enjoy their recuperative holidays across India. People from different walks of life cut across the entire span of the globe come to India to have their treatments done with peace of mind. India provides world class medical facilities with hospitals and specialized multi specialty health centers providing their expertise in the areas of Cosmetic Surgery, Dental care, Heart Surgeries, Coronary Bypass, Heart Check up, Valve replacements, Knee Replacements, Eye surgeries, Indian traditional treatments like Ayurvedic Therapies and much more, practically covering every aspect of medicine combining modern treatments with traditional experience.

The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) arrived above foreign exchange earnings on Prospects of Medical Tourism. Under the supervision of its Health Committee chaired by Chairman, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Dr. B K Rao in which other lead doctors from Medicity, Moolchand, AIIMS, Max etc. are involved.

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