India is fast becoming the preferred destination for ailing foreigners who have of late been thronging the country’s world-class hospitals like Shalby (Ahmedabad), Tata (Mumbai), Hinduja (Mumbai), Apollo (Chennai), AIIMS (Delhi), Fortis (Bengaluru), etc. Indian doctors are no more your ho-hum bone-bender or money-grubbing pill-pusher to be sneezed at. In fact, there are some doctor-entrepreneurs who have put India on the medical tourism map of the world.
What’s more, India’s first medical tourism policy rolled out by the government on June 21, International Yoga Day, is just what the doctor ordered. According to Anjan Bose, secretary-general of the Healthcare Federation of India, the number of foreign patients rose from 75,688 in 2014 to 134,344 in 2015, zooming to 201,333 in 2016. And this despite super-duper, high-tech healthcare facilities being offered in other medical travel hot spots like Turkey, Mexico, Singapore,....
