
Medical tourism is the practice of traveling to another country to receive medical treatment. Depending on the nature of treatment and destination of travel, costs savings can be substantial, even after factoring in air fare, hotel accommodation, insurance, dining and shopping. For instance, a heart valve operation which would cost over $200,000 in the United States, could cost under $10,000 in a country like India. It is for this reason, an ever increasing number of patients in the West, where medical costs have sky-rocketed, are traveling to Asia to seek medical treatment.Singapore has become one of the major destinations for international medical tourists. Three agencies, the Economic Development Board, the Singapore Tourism Board and the International Enterprise Singapore, have come together to develop Singapore as one of Asia's leading health care destinations. Through their cooperative efforts, they successfully attract an average of 200,000 medical tourists to the island state each
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