India, a Medical Tourism Hotspot for Westerners

A most recent study carried out by the Public Health Foundation of India and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine established that in India non-communicable diseases such as heart disease are now more common among the poor than the rich people, as reported Ketaki Gokhale for Bloomberg.

Today, healthcare systems around the world face the challenge of delivering better quality care with limited resources. Ministers of Health in most of the countries are constantly on the lookout for ways to combat the trend of the ever-increasing cost of healthcare driven by major trends like unhealthy lifestyles and an ageing population. India too is not away from the challenge of finding low-cost yet high-quality models for delivering healthcare. But still, many hospitals like Vaatsalya, Glocal Healthcare, Eye-Q have come up to provide affordable health care with up-to date medical technologies.

Narayana Health, started by Dr.Devi Shetty, an Indian heart surgeon and businessman, is one of the medical centres especially designed for heart ailments, and is very well known for its best in class and affordable treatment. An artery-clearing coronary bypass surgery costs just 95, 000 (about $1,583) at Narayana Health whereas at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic, the same procedure costs about $106,385 as per the data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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