Health Check-up

Health Check-up (prevention rather than cure)

Medical tourism is a term used to describe any holiday or vacation where you travel abroad in search of world-class medical treatment. It comes under a number of other terms including healthcare travel; medical vacation; health tourism; medical travel; healthcare abroad; and overseas healthcare. This rapidly growing industry is gaining popularity in countries like India, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa, amongst others…

There’s a wide range of procedures you can obtain in the east at significantly lower prices, including; heart surgery, eye surgery, orthopaedic surgery etc. But in order to prevent having to undergo surgery at all, you’d be well advised to undergo a comprehensive health check-up every so often. There are numerous common and life-threatening conditions can be treated successfully if detected early.

In India alone, there are many top-class hospitals where you can have every part of your body screened, both meticulously and professionally, for signals of impending illness. A proper (comprehensive) health check-up should scan your entire bio-history. A heart check-up, for example, should at least involve; a consultation by a senior cardiologist; general test and haemogram; echocardiography; and blood test.

Health-check up procedures

A comprehensive health-check up will typically involve the following (and more); doctors consultation; complete haemogram; blood tests; blood group; blood sugar; blood urea; chest X-Rays; serum uric acid; serum creatinine; serum cholesterol; urine and faeces examinations; ultrasound of the abdomen screening; exercise stress tests; liquid profile; eye examination; stress screening by a psychologist; and a post check-up consultation.

We have all heard of the phrase “prevention is better than cure”. Doctors nowadays are recognizing the importance of and need for preventive health care. Even the smallest symptom could be an indication of a major disease, so every organ should be scrutinised carefully. Also, the check-up often identifies reasons for minor illnesses and serves as a personal medical record for future reference.

The medical tourism industry has seen rapid growth as direct result of the overburdened healthcare infrastructure and high costs in the west. In the UK for example, the NHS often has unbearably long waiting lists while in the USA, you have to pay dearly for healthcare – a lot of people simply can’t afford it and remain uninsured.

Ever since the September 11th disaster, stringent visa regulations imposed by USA has led to a growing number of Middle Eastern patients choosing Asian countries for low cost medical treatment. All over Asia hospitals are now promoting medical tourism as a low cost, high quality alternative to treatment in the west.

Every year more and more people are choosing to get medical treatment abroad. Regular check-ups are absolutely vital to your short and long term health, so if they can be done at a fraction of the cost by extremely professional doctors, in an exotic location, why not…

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