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Meaning of Medical Tourism - India
Treatment Cost Difference
 Important cost difference subsist between U.K. and India when it comes to medical treatment tourism packages.
Every year innumerable number of alien visitors from different parts of the world visits India for its historical escapade.
Moreover, many a time some of them fall ill as illness knows no place. India is not only cheaper in respect of medical treatment packages but the waiting time is almost zero.
This is due to the explosion of the private sector, which comprises of hospitals and clinics with the up-to-the-minute technology and best practitioners.
Procedure Charges in India & US (US $):
Procedure Cost (US$)
United States India
| |
Cost (US$) United States India |
Charges in India & US (US $) |
| Bone Marrow Transplant |
2,50,000 |
69,000 |
| Liver Transplant |
3,00,000 |
69,000 |
| Heart Surgery |
30,000 |
8,000 |
| Orthopedic Surgery |
20,000 |
6,000 |
| Cataract Surgery |
2,000 |
1,250 |
Here is a brief comparison of the cost of few of the Dental care package procedures between USA and India
Dental procedure Cost in US ($) Cost in India ($) General Dentist
| Smile designing |
Cost in US ($) |
Cost in India ($) General Dentist |
| Smile designing |
8,000 |
2,500 |
| Metal Free Bridge |
5,500 |
500 |
| Dental Implants |
3,500 |
800 |
| Porcelain Metal Bridge |
1,800 |
800 |
| Porcelain Metal Crown |
600 |
250 |
| Tooth impactions |
500 |
275 |
| Root canal Treatment |
600 |
350 |
| Tooth whitening |
350 |
165 |
| Tooth colored composite fillings |
200 |
25 |
| Tooth cleaning |
100 |
40 |
These costs are a standard and might not have been the real cost to be incurred.
Robert Walter Beeney was not competent to walk due to a stiff hip when he landed in India January 24. Twenty days afterward, he not only improved after a atypical hip substitution surgery at Apollo Hospital here but also visited the famous Tag Mahan in Agra after that. So India is now becoming well known for its medical tourism.
The 64-year-old real estate expert from San Francisco underwent flourishing surface substitution surgery using the anatomic surface replacement (ASR) hip system January 27, purportedly becoming the first US national to come to India for the cure. A medical team of doctors, headed by orthopaedic surgery treatment specialist Vijay Bose, sustained the procedure for Beeney.
Jayaramchander Pingle, a member of the medical team, told a news seminar that while in the usual hip replacement surgery, the total hip was replaced, in the new system, the patient's unique head and neck of femur were conserved and only their surface is replaced with metal on metal enunciation.
All these depict that India is now emerging as a medical treatment hub also.
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