Medical tourists rush to India because of rupee fall
Posted on: 22/Aug/2013 2:24:55 PM
Foreigners are thronging to India for medical treatment to India because of the rupee fall. Private hospitals in Chennai say that they have seen a 10% to 15% increase in medical tourism in the past one year. While part of it could be attributed to the falling rupee, the bigger picture spells strain on the hospitals pockets as they procure most of their medical supplies from abroad.
Apollo Hospitals has also been witnessing an encouraging inflow of patients from the Gulf after Ramzan. Apollo Hospitals CEO B Prem Kumar said the hospital got more than 65,000 international patients last year. Most of the patients who come to city hospitals for treatment are from the Middle East,Africa and Saarc countries. The most common procedures that foreign patients seek are cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, spine and joint surgery, oncology and organ transplant.
