[Assam] India Medical Tourism on recruit in Britain

Wed Jun 21 09:55:59 PDT 2006

such a hospital by NRAs in Assam would be catalyst for eco. development in the region.

  Umesh

Rini Kakati <rinikakati at hotmail.com> wrote:
        We think of India as curries, beer, bollywood and call centres, but the majority dont understand the rate of which things changing. Manufacturing jobs were being outsourced in the 1990s and business process services as industry leaders sought cheaper labour in the global market place. 

  Today, the outsourcing story is about to take a new twist as Medical Tourism lures Britons, disillusioned by the NHS, to India, where they can receive world class treatment on demand and at a fraction of the cost. 

  India has become a major medical tourism destination for people world wide with the country offering reasonable cheap but sophisticated healthcare services. The Indian Government would soon identify a number of mult specialty hospitals and expert doctors to cater to the increasing flow of overseas patients. Anbumani Ramadoss, the Health Minister says the task of identifying hospitals and specialist doctors would be entrusted to a new body called the Accreditation Foundation of India. The decision to set up the foundation was taken after India witnessed a rush of patients from the US, Britain, Africa and the Middle-East countries seeking advanced healthcare facilities. 

  The boom in overseas patients has prompted scores of Indian doctors working abroad to return home. Doctors are so well paid here that many of them have since return from the US and other places. They are getting even more than what they are earning in say places like Australia, New Zealand, the UK or even the US. Medical treatment in India is comparatively very cheap and fast, besides the country today having some of the best doctors in the world and also advanced technology available, according to the ministry of health. 

  For the first time an India - based hospital has launched a recruitment drive in Britain to hire doctors who can interact and treat British patients who are flocking to India for fast treatment. 

  Some companies have been doing brisk business for the past few years arranging the medical treatment of British patients in India by offering a single  window facility --- by which the patients are taken care of right from their travel from Britain to India and back after treatment and recovery. It is a two way thing. India can benefit from having doctors with experience in dealing with Europeans while the doctors benefit from working in a changing new environment. 

  Its quite ironic how things have turned full circle in the last 40 years or so. In those days Indian doctors were literally flooding the country to staff a severely undermanned NHS. 

  Now India is trying to woo them all back as well as attract European  born staff. 

  The case of Yvonne Watts worth mentioning. She is 75 who paid for a hip operation abroad won the right recently to have the cost refunded by NHS. Yvonne of Bedford was told in September 2002 she needed both hips replaced. But Bedford primary healthcare trust said she must wait around a year. Her condition worsened and she had already decided on the French operation at Abbeville in March 2003. 

  Earlier this month Sarah Paris, 43 from Torquay mother- of two travel to Chennai for a shoulder operation. The Apollo Hospital Network is seeking to attract more people like Paris. It will launch a series of road shows around Britain to show case the treatment it offers along with inviting more insurance companies to join. 

  The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has joined hands with the United Kingdom Trade and Investments (UKTI) healthcare mission to India explore partnerships between British organisations and the health sector in India. The mission led by UKTI business adviser 
  Mr. Hawkins, includes eight healthcare service providers who met companies like Apollo Hospitals Group, KG Hospital in Coimbatore and Trivitron Medical systems in the Indian care sector to explore joined ventures in services and manufacturing. 

  Chennai and South India in general have a long standing reputation for healthcare innovation. It is also very interesting to know that one of the first female doctors in the English speaking world, Mary Ann Dacomb Scharlieb qualified from the Madras Medical school in 1878.

  That was at a time when women were not allowed to train as doctors in Britain. The Madras Medical school (now college) continue this tradition when the first Indian woman doctor graduated from the same school just a few years later. 

  The Chennai based Apollo was Indias first corporate hospital group. 

  The second addition India Medical Tourism Expo 2006 with leading multi- specialty hospitals, medical tourism companies and tour operators from India was held on 2nd June to 4th June at Olympia Two, London, UK. As a Co-ordinator for one of these hospitals in India I had an opportunity to attend the conference and listen to an interesting discussions about How to create the medical tourism an attractive one. Doctors from various parts of India and UK along with various insurance companies and representatives also took part in the discussion. Someone mentioned We have seen many people coming to India for treatment and then travelling to places of interests soon after their medical check ups. 

  The country is bound to benefit as it is expected to generate lot of direct and indirect employment opportunities. To cash in on the boom the Indian Government has decided to further encourage the concept of medical tourism. The Government would facilitate and help both tourist and the hospitals to make medical tourism a huge success. 

  There is nothing much to talk about prevailing medical facilities in the north east. We also have best hospitals in Guwahati for example: Shankar Netralaya is one of the best eye hospital. The Down Town covers the patients from entire north east. The GNRC is one and only Neurological hospital in the north east. It wont be a bad idea if these hospitals also join hands with medical tourism and to consider corporate marketing and advertisement through British medical journal.      A group of medical and non-medical fraternity from the north east who are presently working out side the state are planning to start a Superspeciality Corporate Hospital around Guwahati which is indeed a very good news!   Rini Kakati

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