Archive for the ‘General’ Category
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Jun
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A growing number of tourists to Thailand are combining holidays with health care. In 2004, 600,000 foreign patients sought treatment in Bangkok, Thailand, a figure that is expected to grow by 66 percent in 2006 with approximately one million foreign patients travelling to Bangkok, Thailand for medical treatment and health services.
With world class surgeons, highly esteemed research professors, and the latest technology, Thailand’s medical services add a new dimension to its long tradition of hospitality to foreign visitors.
The Thai medical profession is probably one of the most advanced in the region. Successive governments have invested in ensuring the education and training Thai doctors receive is parallel to that offered elsewhere in the region. Many doctors undertake specialist training abroad, particularly the United States and Europe and are at least equally as well qualified as physicians in the west – often more so. Many large private hospitals are also staffed with translators to assist foreigners in communicating with medical professionals.
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Jun
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Medical tourism is a growing segment of Thailand’s tourism and health-care sectors. In 2005, one Bangkok hospital took in 150,000 treatment seekers from abroad. In 2006, medical tourism was projected to earn the country 36.4 billion baht.
Thailand offers everything from cardiac surgery to organ transplants at a price much lower than the US or Europe. Thai medicine also features a higher, more personalized level of nursing care than westerners are accustomed to receiving in hospitals at home. One patient who received a coronary artery bypass surgery at Bumrungrad International hospital in Bangkok said the operation cost him US$12,000 (8,200 euros), as opposed to the $100,000 (68,000 euros) he estimated the operation would have cost him at home.
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