MANGALURU: Dakshina Kannada district is slowly opening as much as clinical tourism and the expanding selection of sufferers from around the globe serve a testimony to this.
In the last 3 years, as many as 240 foreigners have availed remedy in 3 outstanding hospitals in the town. Of those, 50% sufferers arrived in Mangaluru in 2018-19.
KMC Hospitals, AJ Hospital and Yenepoya Specialty Hospital have observed the utmost selection of sufferers from foreign international locations, together with those from the United States.
According to docs, sufferers from foreign international locations agree with Mangaluru simplest next to Bengaluru and Chennai with getting high quality remedy. While town is but to carve its niche in the West because of loss of exposure, affordability and hospitality is what is lately driving sufferers from the Gulf and Africa to this coastal town. Use of ultramodern technology is another reason, because the sufferers say they are happy with the standard of carrier and remedy.
Currently, the very best inflow of foreign sufferers into Mangaluru is from the Gulf international locations. Patients have additionally been arriving in expanding numbers from England, Belgium, Denmark, France and Kenya, amongst different international locations.
KMC Hospitals, Mangaluru, handled a total 10 foreigners 2016-17, 16 sufferers in 2017-18 and 8 in 2018-19. AJ Hospital handled 10 foreign sufferers in 2016-17, 55 sufferers in 2017-18 and 73 in 2018-19. At Yenepoya Specialty Hospital, 68 foreigners have availed remedy in the last 3 monetary years, with as many as 40 arriving here in the last monetary yr. The medical institution has observed the very best selection of sufferers from the Gulf international locations, mainly Oman.
Father Muller Charitable Institutions and Unity Hospital, too, have handled a couple of foreign sufferers in the last couple of years.
“Friendly docs, supportive group of workers, state of the art technology, cutting-edge equipment, easy access because of presence of an international airport here, and most significantly, the spirit of ‘athithi devo bhava’ (the guest is like God) are the the explanation why there is a increase in clinical tourism in Mangaluru. This quantity is likely to building up, supplied we stay giving high quality remedy,” stated heart specialist Dr Padmanabah Kamath.
Dr Sachidananda Rai, president, IMA, Mangaluru, stated sufferers from the Gulf region and African international locations had taken a liking to getting clinical remedy in Mangaluru, and that town was once slowly opening as much as Westerners for clinical tourism.
In the last 3 years, as many as 240 foreigners have availed remedy in 3 outstanding hospitals in the town. Of those, 50% sufferers arrived in Mangaluru in 2018-19.
KMC Hospitals, AJ Hospital and Yenepoya Specialty Hospital have observed the utmost selection of sufferers from foreign international locations, together with those from the United States.
According to docs, sufferers from foreign international locations agree with Mangaluru simplest next to Bengaluru and Chennai with getting high quality remedy. While town is but to carve its niche in the West because of loss of exposure, affordability and hospitality is what is lately driving sufferers from the Gulf and Africa to this coastal town. Use of ultramodern technology is another reason, because the sufferers say they are happy with the standard of carrier and remedy.
Currently, the very best inflow of foreign sufferers into Mangaluru is from the Gulf international locations. Patients have additionally been arriving in expanding numbers from England, Belgium, Denmark, France and Kenya, amongst different international locations.
KMC Hospitals, Mangaluru, handled a total 10 foreigners 2016-17, 16 sufferers in 2017-18 and 8 in 2018-19. AJ Hospital handled 10 foreign sufferers in 2016-17, 55 sufferers in 2017-18 and 73 in 2018-19. At Yenepoya Specialty Hospital, 68 foreigners have availed remedy in the last 3 monetary years, with as many as 40 arriving here in the last monetary yr. The medical institution has observed the very best selection of sufferers from the Gulf international locations, mainly Oman.
Father Muller Charitable Institutions and Unity Hospital, too, have handled a couple of foreign sufferers in the last couple of years.
“Friendly docs, supportive group of workers, state of the art technology, cutting-edge equipment, easy access because of presence of an international airport here, and most significantly, the spirit of ‘athithi devo bhava’ (the guest is like God) are the the explanation why there is a increase in clinical tourism in Mangaluru. This quantity is likely to building up, supplied we stay giving high quality remedy,” stated heart specialist Dr Padmanabah Kamath.
Dr Sachidananda Rai, president, IMA, Mangaluru, stated sufferers from the Gulf region and African international locations had taken a liking to getting clinical remedy in Mangaluru, and that town was once slowly opening as much as Westerners for clinical tourism.
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