| Medical tourism as it is popularly known does not | | | | cosmetic surgery and some times being done for |
| mean that it is some loose tourism and some | | | | the preferences of patients in order to get |
| healthcare screening tests or some easy to go | | | | prettier and more nice looking insurance |
| wellness package. As name, medical tourism | | | | companies never agreed to foot the bills of these |
| suggests it is sort of medical evacuation for some | | | | high cost procedures in western world. This led to |
| urgent medical illness, which needs to provide | | | | tourists and patients seek help overseas to find |
| some relief by some medical procedure at some | | | | doctors and hospitals providing these procedures. |
| overseas destination. Some people have named it | | | | They started coming to perform these procedure |
| as medic travel, global healthcare or even health | | | | sand with these plastic and cosmetic surgical |
| tourism. | | | | procedures they took some tourism packages |
| It all started with people going overseas and | | | | thus resulting in called as medical tourism. |
| finding exceptionally low costs of surgical | | | | Plastic surgery in Malaysia is certainly evolved |
| procedures and most of the people when for | | | | around this very typical story line of medical |
| screening and plastic and cosmetic surgery | | | | tourism. Though medical tourism in Malaysia is not |
| procedures. But now medical tourism has evolved | | | | just plastic and cosmetic surgery procedures but |
| beyond it and patients and tourists are finding help | | | | a lot of them are patients from neighboring |
| for complex procedures like cancer and | | | | countries to Malaysia. A big number of patients |
| neurosurgery. Medical tourism is also becoming | | | | come from Indonesia due to better healthcare |
| famous due to finding top class doctors in their | | | | services in Malaysia. But medical tourism patients |
| fields of specialization at destination over seas. | | | | for cosmetic and plastic surgery come form |
| Thus providing a chance for a patient to be | | | | Europe and America. The city called Penang is |
| treated by a specialist in his field which some | | | | famous for its plastic surgeons and director of |
| times is hard to find in their native country. Also | | | | one hospital who is basically from USA told an |
| the scheduling of the appointments is give priority | | | | audience in medical tourism first world congress at |
| at destinations of medical tourism which is not the | | | | San Francisco that half of the US patients who |
| case in their native country due to high number of | | | | take medical tourism packages at their hospital |
| such cases and long waiting lists for surgeries. | | | | are wives and relatives of doctors in USA And |
| The medical tourism, part as plastic surgery and | | | | most of these patients seek some plastic and |
| cosmetic surgery procedures been very | | | | cosmetic procedure like face lift, abdominoplasty, |
| attractive due to many insurances did not provide | | | | liposuction, nose job etc. |
| coverage to procedures done under the name of | | | | |