All the medical procedures that India utilizes as part of its medical tourism brand
On the medical tourism spectrum, India has a lot to offer. Not only the country is known for its stereotypical medical expert to Europe and the USA, but it’s also rapidly climbing the medical tourism ladder. Since the election of prime minister Narendra Modi in 2014, India, already a medical power, underwent a massive healthcare overhaul. As a result today India has 39 JCI accredited hospitals. India is practically capable of providing nearly all medical procedures (with the exception of organ transplants due to legal restrictions). Naturally however, there are some treatments that India does better than others and the medical tourism sector consciously exploits them in their advertisements. With that in mind, today we will go over the treatments that are utilized as selling point by Indian hospitals. India has a long and profound history of medicine, as well as it’s own two distinct traditional medical schools, so first we will cover treatments under the conventional branch of medicine and then move on to the exotic and oriental treatments of India. Previously we covered the top five hospitals in the country, today we examine the best medical treatments in India.
Cosmetic Surgeries
Like many other active countries in medical tourism, India understands the attraction of cosmetic surgeries and has actively pushed to attain expertise in the different areas of cosmetic medicine. There are five particular operations at which the Indian medics have reached a degree of excellence that is sufficient to serve as part of their medical tourism brand. These are Face Lift, Hair Transplant, Breast Augmentation, Tummy Tuck and Liposuction. These surgeries are all extremely popular with celebrities as well as common people. The procedures themselves are performed by professional cosmetic surgeons that have underwent extensive fellowship courses and are absolutely safe.
Bone Marrow Transplant
Moving on to the more medical side of Indian medical tourism, we have the extremely intricate and complex bone marrow transplant surgery. Generally operations that deal with stem cells are of great delicacy, and need to be handled with a great deal of caution and prudence. The two hospital chains of Apollo and Narayana both have dedicated long periods of research to excelling at this surgery, and to great success too. There are three bone marrow transplant operations, these are the autologous, allogeneic and the umbilical cord blood transplants. While the Apollo hospitals excel at the first two methods, Narayana hospitals have mastered the latter method. Even in advanced countries, bone marrow transplants are considered a major challenge, India is among the very best at it, and coupled with its unbelievably low rates, makes India for an excellent destination to receive this rare and intricate treatment.
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Cardiovascular Treatments
13 percent of all cardiovascular patients in India are medical tourists. Taking into account the enormous population of India, it makes an staggering amount of patients. Cardiac disorder treatment was the very first selling point of Indian medical tourism and is considered one of the best treatments in India. It is one of the cornerstones of Indian medical tourism and one of the first to be provided universally after Indian Independence. Virtually all Indian hospitals provide world-class cardiac treatments, however Fortis hospitals across India and the Medicity Hospital in the city of Guragon are specially renowned for their expertise in the cardiovascular field.
Bariatric Surgeries
Long before Coronavirus became a pandemic, the modern lifestyle brought another pandemic of the non communicable kind to the world: Obesity. India is no exception. However thanks to the elite performance of the Indian bariatric surgical section India has one of the lowest obesity rates in the world at 3.9 percent, ranking among the bottom five. This was not the case a decade ago, and India had to work for this monumental success. The results are a testament to the power of Indian medics especially their bariatric surgeons. Apollo hospitals hold the record for the most number of bariatric surgeries performed, scoring an average of 1000 monthly surgeries per every one of its hospitals. The Kular hospital in Punjab is another excellent choice, as it is also the birthplace of the Mini-Gastric surgery, invented by Dr.Kular himself.
Indian Traditional Medicine
At a day and age where all medical tourism competitors are busy revealing new aces up their sleeves, India has a card to play that most other countries simply do not have. That would be the millennia old Indian medical school of Ayurveda. Today Ayurveda is known around the world as one of the leading alternative medicine schools. With many westerners attracted to this exotic and ancient school of medicine, many Indian Ayurveda gurus are looking to attract those medical tourists who are looking to alternative solutions to their medical issues. Ayurveda already ranks among the top ten treatment methods that attract the most medical tourists in India, and has the potential to become the dominant selling point of Indian medical tourism. The AyurMana Ayurvedic Treatment Hospital in the city of Thiruvananthapuram is one of the best Ayurveda Hospitals in all of India.
Article by: Parsa Khaknezhad