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=Medical Tourism= What is medical tourism? Medical Tourism refers to people traveling from one country to another country to obtain medical treatment. At an early age. the people traveled from less developed countries to highly developed countries for the treatment unavailable in their home country. However, in recent years, the trend has been changed to traveling from developed countries to developing countries for low-priced and affordable treatments. There are various other reasons for which the native citizens travel from their country to another country. It could be because of the non-availability of a drug in their country or if any particular drug is being banned in that particular country. Medical Tourism in India Among the various sectors growing in India, medical tourism is one of the major sectors that has seen a wide range of scope and growth in recent years. The most popular treatments that are available in India are a bone-marrow transplant, cardiac bypass, eye surgery, and hip replacement. Tourists from various countries like Bangladesh, Iraq, Oman, Yemen, Kenya, Nigeria, Australia, Canada, etc…. have been traveling to India for surgeries and other medical treatments. Keeping this in mind, the Government of India has expanded the e-visa categories to include medical visas as well. The maximum duration of stay under this visa is 6 months. India has another special type of VISA for nurses or attendants of Medical Visitors called India Medical Attendant Visa with a view to promoting medical tourism.

Easy to Travel
The government has removed the various restrictions that had been levied on medical tourists like the gap between each visit for the purpose of medical reasons. Visa on arrival scheme also has been introduced for some countries which allow the foreign nationals to stay for a period of 30 days in India.

Cost
The main reason for India to get a huge number of travelers as medical tourists are the cost-effective treatment available in the country. It is estimated that most of the treatments cost one-tenth of the price that costs in other countries.

Quality of Service
The main reasons the tourists visit India is for the cost and the quality of service that has been provided by the county to the tourists. There are a very less waiting period and various other facilities provided in the super-specialty hospitals that attract patients from other countries.

Language
We all know that India is rich in its diversity when it comes to languages. Even though Hindi is the national language, English is the official language and the most commonly spoke language in the country especially in most of the hospitals and medical universities and by the respective professionals. The country and its medical universities have also made arrangements in their respective hospitals for translators which will help the patients from other countries converse with the Indian professionals.

Limitations of Medical Tourism
Some of the patients cannot undertake travel for a long time hence they tend to fall sick often because of their travel. One more main problem for medical tourists is that the host country does not follow up with the patients after the treatment is provided to them. Another main concern with the medical tourism is the ethical practices being followed in that particular country. The transparency between the patients and the doctors has to be clear and the patients should be told everything about the treatment clearly.