WATCH A VIDEO ABOUT ISRAEL HOSPITALS LOOKING TO BECOME A HUB FOR MEDICAL TOURISM AND LOWER COST SURGERY COMPETING WITH INDIA AND SINGAPORE FOR MEDICAL

WATCH A VIDEO ABOUT ISRAEL HOSPITALS LOOKING TO BECOME A HUB FOR MEDICAL TOURISM AND LOWER COST SURGERY COMPETING WITH INDIA AND SINGAPORE FOR MEDICAL TOURISTS

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In a recent post I outlined how the sky high costs of medical care in the United States was propelling the growth of medical tourism. As people face astronomical charges for medical care and surgery, they are increasingly traveling to countries like India to have surgery. In that post I gave a comparison of the huge cost differences for surgery like coronary artery bypass and knee replacements. India and Singapore have been prominent destinations for people seeking medical treatment and surgery overseas. The Israeli government hopes that there will soon be more western medical tourists coming to Israel for surgery and medical treatment at Israel's top hospitals like Hadassh Hospital in Jerusalem. The Chicago Tribune recently reported the story of an American man who needed liver transplant surgery. He checked out a top hospital in South Florida and was told it would cost him 450,000 dollars and he would have to wait a few months to boot! So instead of getting the liver transplant surgery in Florida, he traveled to India where he had the surgery for 58,000 dollars!









Now Israel wants to become a hub of medical tourism too.According to a professor of medicine at Hadassah Hospital in Jersualem, "Israel is a very small country with incredible and amazing medical facilities," he said. "Excellence in medical terms and cheaper treatment. That is what they will get here. The treatments that we can provide are much cheaper than the ones that you are going to receive in Europe. Some patients are already coming from overseas. Most are from the Jewish diaspora, or even from Arab countries that have no diplomatic relations with Israel".


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