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Ministry of Tourism has formulated a national strategy and roadmap for medical and wellness tourism in order to boost medical tourism in the country, said Union Minister G Kishan Reddy in Lok Sabha
In a Q&A, Prathap Chandra Reddy talks about the need to focus on medical tourism and medical education to meet the demand of 18 million professionals in the sector by 2030
The India Tourism Development Corporation has signed a pact with the Ministry of Ayush for promotion of medical tourism in the field of Ayurveda and other traditional systems of medicine. Under the agreement, the ITDC will promote "Heal in India Medical Value Travel in Ayurveda, Yoga and other Indian traditional systems of medicine", a statement said. It will also as assist in establishing the country as the number one destination for medical value travel in consultation with the Ayush and Tourism ministry, the ITDC statement said. Medical value travel, also known as health tourism or medical tourism is defined as travel for the purpose of maintaining, improving or restoring health through medical intervention. Under the Memorandum of Understanding, ITDC will explore establishing Ayurveda and yoga centres in hotels run by it. The pact was signed in the presence of Pramod Kumar Pathak, special secretary- MoA, SRK Vidyarthi, director, MoA, and Piyush Tiwari - director, commercial a
One of the highlights of three days meeting was a side event on Medical Value Travel
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya invited all the global stakeholders to partner with India to make the world a healthier place and said that the govt is institutionalizing medical tourism
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The 'flattening' of the third wave of Covid-19, easing restrictions and removing government quota on private hospitals can be attributed to the rise in medical tourism
Meanwhile, traditional Indian medicine centers have once again started receiving patients from overseas
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PM Narendra Modi recently announced a set of measures to boost traditional medicines. The govt is now introducing a special AYUSH visa category along with a marking system to authenticate quality
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From nil revenues, it has already climbed back to 50% of pre-pandemic levels
Prime Minister said the Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Infrastructure Mission aims to address the critical gaps in health infrastructure
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The Crisil report released on Tuesday, however, noted that a large number of pandemic cases, which though is low-margin, will get these hospitals an additional revenue to the tune of 15-20 percent
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Industry and govt working on SOPs to ensure safe passage and procedure
Digital healthcare platform Practo, for example, has seen a jump of three to four times in requests for consultation with general physicians