India boasts of itself as one of the most virtualized and preferred countries when it comes to medical tourism. Visitors from all over the world are traversing their way into India for the treatment of various ailments and exploring the vintage of its historical avenues and tourist places of architectural excellence.
Medical tourism in India far exceeds than many other nations in the world in terms of highly trained doctors, superior medical facilities and equipments and above all cost-effective treatments. According to the estimates of one study, India can generate $2.3 billion through Medical Tourism by 2012 but can be more if we look at the potentialities and genre it is offering in any of its medical sector.
Many hospitals in India are equipped with the latest technologies for wide range of ailments like joint replacements, cosmetic treatments, orthopedic surgery, dental care and lot more. As per according to the Indian Government estimates, cost of medical facilities is 30 per cent less in contrast to the developed nations making it an attractive destination for the patients from across the globe.
Since the conceptualization of the medical tourism in India, it has become the most favored destination for the patients who want to get specialized treatments like heart surgery, knee transplant, dental care, cosmetic surgery, and ENT treatment among others. Somewhere around 150,000 foreigners visit India only for their medical treatment and this number has been increasing each year by 15 per cent. However the trend has seen visitors visiting India more for Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy and Dental treatments including allopathic surgery.
Along with it, encouragement to the best recreational activities like excellent restaurants, luxurious hotels, best transport facilities, and good infrastructure are the other factors for pushing medical tourism in India and have increased the potential for the same in the years to come.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
NDM Virus was a mistake of Lancet, UK. Lancet Apologises
Naming the drug resistant superbug New Delhi Metallo Beta Lactamase-I (NDM-1) after India's capital city was a "big mistake", Dr Richard Horton, editor of the prestigious British medical journal `The Lancet'.
Dr Horton told TOI that "it was an error of judgement" on their part to allow the article get published with the name NDM-1 as "we didn't think of its implications for which I sincerely apologise."
According to Dr Horton, naming the bug after New Delhi "unnecessarily stigmatised a single country and city".
Dr Horton, however, strongly felt that the science "was strong, sound and correct" but in the mistake of naming the bug, "it distracted people from the important science".
The journal, he said on Tuesday, has now learnt to be more careful with new inventions, discoveries or conditions named after a particular country or city. "I would welcome if researchers changed the name of the superbug but it is in the hands of those who named it in the first place," Dr Horton who is in India said.
Reacting to Dr Horton's comments, director-general of the Indian Council of medical Research Dr V M Katoch said, "It was unfair to name a superbug -- organisms that grow in nature in every country -- after India without any evidence that it originated here."
In August 2010, `Lancet' had published a multi-centre study, warning how a new superbug had emerged from India and had spread across the world which made bacteria highly resistant to almost all antibiotics, including the most powerful class called carbapenems.
India's scientific fraternity, including the Union health ministry, had strongly lodged a complaint against naming it after New Delhi saying it was a ploy to put a stop to and "defame India's growing medical tourism industry". The ministry went on an overdrive to convince people that Indian hospitals were safe for foreign patients and described the study "malicious propaganda".
The `Lancet' study had said NDM-1 was common in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in particular and had spread to over 15 countries including United Kingdom, US, Canada, Australia, Netherlands and Japan.
Most experts blamed the emergence of this gene on the widespread misuse of antibiotics stating that Indian doctors had not yet taken the issue of antibiotic resistance seriously and that India needed both an improved policy to control the use of antibiotics and a central registry of antibiotic-resistant infections.
Dr Samlee Plianbangchang, WHO's regional director for south-east Asia, had said that the drug resistance was caused "largely due to the incorrect use of medicines, including use for too short a time, too low a dose, inadequate potency or for a wrong disease."
Abdul Ghafur, one of the authors of the superbug story from Chennai, recently said the alliance between the enzyme and New Delhi was only hypothetical and not proven. He said he strongly believed that the name of NDM-1 must be changed to remove the words "New Delhi".
Read more: Lancet says sorry for 'Delhi bug' - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Lancet-says-sorry-for-Delhi-bug-/articleshow/7261135.cms#ixzz1AtGHzJ9e
Dr Horton told TOI that "it was an error of judgement" on their part to allow the article get published with the name NDM-1 as "we didn't think of its implications for which I sincerely apologise."
According to Dr Horton, naming the bug after New Delhi "unnecessarily stigmatised a single country and city".
Dr Horton, however, strongly felt that the science "was strong, sound and correct" but in the mistake of naming the bug, "it distracted people from the important science".
The journal, he said on Tuesday, has now learnt to be more careful with new inventions, discoveries or conditions named after a particular country or city. "I would welcome if researchers changed the name of the superbug but it is in the hands of those who named it in the first place," Dr Horton who is in India said.
Reacting to Dr Horton's comments, director-general of the Indian Council of medical Research Dr V M Katoch said, "It was unfair to name a superbug -- organisms that grow in nature in every country -- after India without any evidence that it originated here."
In August 2010, `Lancet' had published a multi-centre study, warning how a new superbug had emerged from India and had spread across the world which made bacteria highly resistant to almost all antibiotics, including the most powerful class called carbapenems.
India's scientific fraternity, including the Union health ministry, had strongly lodged a complaint against naming it after New Delhi saying it was a ploy to put a stop to and "defame India's growing medical tourism industry". The ministry went on an overdrive to convince people that Indian hospitals were safe for foreign patients and described the study "malicious propaganda".
The `Lancet' study had said NDM-1 was common in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in particular and had spread to over 15 countries including United Kingdom, US, Canada, Australia, Netherlands and Japan.
Most experts blamed the emergence of this gene on the widespread misuse of antibiotics stating that Indian doctors had not yet taken the issue of antibiotic resistance seriously and that India needed both an improved policy to control the use of antibiotics and a central registry of antibiotic-resistant infections.
Dr Samlee Plianbangchang, WHO's regional director for south-east Asia, had said that the drug resistance was caused "largely due to the incorrect use of medicines, including use for too short a time, too low a dose, inadequate potency or for a wrong disease."
Abdul Ghafur, one of the authors of the superbug story from Chennai, recently said the alliance between the enzyme and New Delhi was only hypothetical and not proven. He said he strongly believed that the name of NDM-1 must be changed to remove the words "New Delhi".
Read more: Lancet says sorry for 'Delhi bug' - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Lancet-says-sorry-for-Delhi-bug-/articleshow/7261135.cms#ixzz1AtGHzJ9e
Monday, November 29, 2010
Indian Doctors List, Medical Tourism In India
Medical Tourism India, Treatment Abroad, Indian Doctors
Heal & Wheel extends a gesture of love and warmth to everyone seeking Medical Tourism in India. Excellent medical treatments using latest and the best medical technologies at affordable prices makes India an ideal medical tourism india destination for millions across the globe. As you travel all the way to India, besides your medical facilities, Heal & Wheel also arranges for tours to different parts of the country to make your journey worthwhile.
Heal & Wheel triggers the bonding between the international reputed hospitals and you. The Service that Heal and Wheel offers is ‘Peace of Mind’. We take care of most of your needs in India so that you can heal yourself at lightening speed. We believe that you are our extended family. In India, we make you feel at home.
With sheer expertise and experience in the industry, we provide you only the best possible health solution at an astonishing price. India, being a hub of expert medical treatments in india, earns accolades due to its chain of excellent healthcare centers and highly qualified and experienced doctors. When it comes to medical aid you surely require the best possible treatment and doctors. Heal & Wheel helps you reach out to them at significantly lower costs.
Enjoy 'First World Health Care at Third World Prices' in India.
It is imperative for a patient to change his environment along with medical treatment. Heal & Wheel brings forth the opportunity of treatment abroad and travel in the same package.
Heal & Wheel extends a gesture of love and warmth to everyone seeking Medical Tourism in India. Excellent medical treatments using latest and the best medical technologies at affordable prices makes India an ideal medical tourism india destination for millions across the globe. As you travel all the way to India, besides your medical facilities, Heal & Wheel also arranges for tours to different parts of the country to make your journey worthwhile.
Heal & Wheel triggers the bonding between the international reputed hospitals and you. The Service that Heal and Wheel offers is ‘Peace of Mind’. We take care of most of your needs in India so that you can heal yourself at lightening speed. We believe that you are our extended family. In India, we make you feel at home.
With sheer expertise and experience in the industry, we provide you only the best possible health solution at an astonishing price. India, being a hub of expert medical treatments in india, earns accolades due to its chain of excellent healthcare centers and highly qualified and experienced doctors. When it comes to medical aid you surely require the best possible treatment and doctors. Heal & Wheel helps you reach out to them at significantly lower costs.
Enjoy 'First World Health Care at Third World Prices' in India.
It is imperative for a patient to change his environment along with medical treatment. Heal & Wheel brings forth the opportunity of treatment abroad and travel in the same package.
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