MedicalTourism-Guide

Casinos Give a Thrust to Tourism in Singapore

peter — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:05 +0000

Casinos in Singapore are a major attraction to tourists and analysis has revealed that the number of arrivals in a single month has exceeded the one million mark in July.

Six months after opening its first casino in February, followed by the second in April, Singapore is already counting its winnings despite lingering concern about gambling-linked social problems among the local population.

“Let there be no mistake about it, the legalisation of casino gaming in Singapore was always intended …
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The superbug reflects the local medical environment

peter — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:00:19 +0000

The recent outbreak of the superbug NDM-1 as reported in the latest edition of the Lancet is a wake up call for all people involved in the globalisation of health. While there is a focus on the positives of access to high quality but more affordable care that medical tourism can deliver the negative connotation of bringing back to your native country something distinctly unpleasant from the country that you just visited makes us all stop and think.

It highlights very clearly that when considering an overseas destination for surgery, while the quality of the surgeon and the hospital is important, one aspect that is difficult to assess as to its quality is the medical environment in which the service takes place.

The medical environment includes all things that you can not see and take on trust. Like for example the blood supply, the ability of the nurses to understand and communicate with you, the practices of sterilisation of surgical instruments and so forth. Its the culture and practices under which medical treatment is delivered. It encompasses much more than the individual hospital or doctor; indeed they may have little control of it.

Hence in India the widespread unfettered use of antibiotics has created a medical environment in which a type of (gram -negative) bacterium has developed resistance to all known antibiotics. The only sure way not to have it colonize you and hitch a ride home is not to subject yourself to the medical surroundings where such a bug is endemic.

Thus if the medical environment to where you are heading is not aligned with or better to where you live, dont go even at if huge savings are on offer: the risk of going is very difficult to quantify.

Source: The Medical Traveller

Superbug Does Not Affect Medical Tourism Numbers

peter — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:00:18 +0000

The number of patients who flock to India to get treatment continues to rise even after a report published in a leading British medical journal warned of patients who travel to the country getting infected with a possible “superbug”. Last week’s report in The Lancet has got its fair share of criticism from a number of leading medical experts in India who claim that such an infection is being found in patients who have never travelled to the country. There were fears that the report would drastically …
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The Expatriate Healthcare, Travel Insurance and Global Health Insurance Conference

peter — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:00:05 +0000

The Expatriate Healthcare, Travel Insurance and Global Health Insurance Conference
September 22nd-24th 2010, Los Angeles, CA
The Expatriate Healthcare, Travel Insurance and Global Health Insurance Conference will have a special focus on networking and will feature up to 500 one-on-one networking meetings. Attendees will identify some of the attendees they would like to meet at the congress and [...]
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Is new drug-resistant superbug a threat to medical tourism industry?

peter — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:00:04 +0000

While medical tourism continues to rise in popularity, as we’ve reported several times over the last few years, potential international patients may think twice before booking their next vacation operations with a new superbug on the scene. A new multidrug-resistant superbug has appeared in India, Pakistan, and the U.K., according to an article published in Lancet Infectious Diseases.

DM-1 (New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1) is a new gene that makes a bacterium highly resistant to nearly all antibiotics, Medical News Today reports. It is spread in Enterobacteriaceae taken from patients in India and Pakistan. It has also turned up in U.K. patients who traveled to India for elective surgery.

“The potential of NDM-1 to be a worldwide public health problem is great, and co-ordinated international surveillance is needed,” the researchers write. They identified 44 isolates with NDM-1 in Chennai, 26 in Haryana, 37 in the UK, and 73 in other sites in India and Pakistan.

The NDM-1 superbug resists virtually all antibiotics, even the most powerful ones, according to the Medical News Today article.

To learn more:
- read the Lancet Infectious Diseases abstract
- see the Medical News Today article on the link between international travel and the spread of the superbug
- here’s another Medical News Today article on the spread of the superbug

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Medical Tourism Spreading Superbugs Worldwide

peter — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:00:12 +0000

Plastic surgery patients have carried a new class of superbugs resistant to almost all antibiotics from South Asia to Britain and they could spread worldwide, researchers reported Wednesday.
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Greek Tourism Buckles Under Pressure of Strikes and Fuel Shortage

peter — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:00:12 +0000

Disaster has struck Greece’s crucial tourism industry at the peak of a summer season badly needed by its recession-hit economy with a national fuel shortage compounding weeks of on-off work unrest.
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World Tourism On The Recovery Road

Now, Monsoon Tourism Catches the Imagination of People

peter — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:00:15 +0000

After medical tourism, monsoon tourism has caught on among people. It is not uncommon to see corporate houses sponsoring work-cum-pleasure sessions in
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peter — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:00:08 +0000

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Gay Tourism Picks Up in Conservative Mexico City

peter — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:00:11 +0000

Mexico City’s gay community is gradually turning the capital into a relative oasis in a staunch Catholic country reknowned for its conservatism and machismo.
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