The Al Zahra Hospital Dubai continues to show leadership in health care quality by achieving international medical tourism certification from the Medical Travel Quality Alliance.
A hospital, clinic or medical tourism agency receives medical tourism certification through a formal evaluation against standards of quality in 10 non-clinical areas that directly impact a medical tourist’s wellbeing and good results. Read more…
Bangalore’s Fortis Hospital Bannerghatta, a leader in health care in India and a global leader in providing high quality treatment for medical travelers, has become the first Indian hospital awarded medical tourism certification from the Medical Travel Quality Alliance for its quality of care and services to medical tourists. Read more…
Beirut’s Clemenceau Medical Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins International has become the first hospital in Lebanon to achieve international medical tourism certification from the Medical Travel Quality Alliance.
This marks a medical tourism milestone for Lebanon and for the hospital. Read more…
(Commercial Surrogacy Tourism, part 1)
1,000 babies are born annually in Thailand to surrogates on behalf of foreign couples and individuals.
Worldwide, an estimated 6,000 babies were born last year via commercial surrogacy tourism.
Yet seemingly overnight last month, police in Thailand shut down clinics, stopped parents with newborn infants from getting on flights out of the country, and sent some newborns off to orphanages.
Surrogacy services in Thailand have been available to all couples, foreign and domestic, gay or straight, and Read more…
Woman describes her surgery in Dominican Republic and subsequent treatment for antibiotic resistant infection.
To blacklist: to boycott, to avoid, to steer clear of.
When significant numbers of rehospitalizations and deaths among medical tourists occur in one location – as in the current case of the Dominican Republic – the harsh facts of risks that medical tourists face cannot be brushed aside.
Since there is no structured way to report or gather information about medical tourist outcomes, the most reliable Read more…
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