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Increasingly, the competitive landscape of the medical travel industry is shifting focus from traditional destination to new emerging destinations in the global health care marketplace. Not long ago, India composed one of three major hubs of medical travel in Southeast Asia; Singapore, Thailand, and India. As medical travel becomes more popular, other solutions are becoming more attractive and compelling, such as those found in South Korea or Turkey, taking the market share away from traditional power players. Goel noticed numerous challenges for the Indian medical travel market.

Manipal Hospital, located in Bangalore India, is quite an advanced care provider with the latest state of the art equipments and technology, Manipal Heart Institute in particular is known for its success rate and clinical capabilities among the whole country.

Andrea is the long awaited baby of a young Indian family. She had developed rather good until the 31st week, but then - too young Andrea was born premature.

There are four publicly funded healthcare systems in the countries of the United Kingdom, that operate under different management, rules, and political authority.

Since the oil boom and the flood of petrodolars, healthcare standards have grown steadily in the United Arab Emirates. In spite of this fact, wealthy individuals still choose to travel abroad for medical care. PlacidWay has looked through a few of the issues that the UAE faces in striving to provide the very best medical care for its citizens.

Such is Tanzania, officially known as the United Republic of Tanzania, a country located in East Africa, surrounded by Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.

Medical care is generally considered to be good in Aruba, but medical standards at the only hospital here, Dr. H.E. Oduber Hospital, can be compared to a small hospital in the U.S. Unfortunately, for more complicated situations Arubans will have to travel to other countries to seek medical care.

Dr. Toncic helped us shed some light on this area of medical tourism, and explained how cosmetic surgery is one of the most lucrative areas of medical tourism worldwide and how it works for European medical tourists.

Cross-border medical travel and tourism to Mexico has expanded exponentially in the past decade, providing individuals with greater options when it comes to medical and dental care. No longer are medical travelers limited to a few dental procedures, a cosmetic procedure or two, or even weight-loss procedures. Today, cross-border medical travel to Mexico has opened up arenas for numerous medical fields, specialties, and subspecialties.

Trinidad and Tobago is a two-island country, located in the northern edge of South America, with a population of 1.4 million, from which around 50,000 residing in Tobago.