{"id":19378,"date":"2017-12-28T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=19378"},"modified":"2017-12-28T15:48:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T15:48:41","slug":"medical-tourism-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/medical-tourism-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Facilitation Centers in 6 Cities to Make India Leading Medical Tourism Hub in World"},"content":{"rendered":"
India\u2019s medical tourism sector is supposed to be growing to $7-8 billion by 2020, since the number of foreign tourist arrivals for medical treatment in India rose from 184,298 in 2014 to 361,060 in 2016,<\/strong> according to reports from the Ministry of Tourism. Fueling the growth of medical tourism in India is a steep rise by 45% in the number of Indian medical visas issued in 2016.<\/p>\n Evidently, the government is all set to launch facilitation centers in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi and Goa in 2018, in order to support the growth of medical tourism in India.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The gradual extension of special e-visa for medical tourists from 150 countries, cheap flights to India<\/span><\/a>, improved air connectivity, quality <\/b>health care<\/b><\/span>\u00a0and competitive pricing are transforming India into a leading medical tourism hub in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/b> Bearing evidence to it is the Medical Tourism Market Report: 2015 that found India as one of the lowest cost and highest quality of all medical tourism destinations, offering a wide variety of procedures at about one-tenth the cost of similar procedures in the United States.<\/p>\n