More Americans Seeking Affordable Healthcare Services in India

Temples, the Taj, IT….and now Affordable Healthcare

Mention India and images of exotic tiger safaris, moonlight visits to the Taj, and the much talked about IT boom might spring to mind.  Now there’s another addition to the list – affordable healthcare.  The country has built a reputed industry based on providing medical tourism packages for cardiac and eye care, hip and knee replacement, and a host of other conditions to foreign patients.  While India’s high levels of technological advancement mean the country is equipped to offer the best and most comprehensive range of affordable healthcare options to visitors from overseas, it’s the specialized hospitals in India offering heart care procedures that are the most frequented by medical tourists.  

Exemplary Standards at the Best Hospitals in India for Heart Care

Indian cardiac specialty facilities like the Escorts Heart Institute and Wockhardt Hospitals Group have smoothly made the transition from hospitals serving local populations to health tourism centers offering a variety of medical tourism packages to foreign visitors.  Facilities like Escorts and Apollo Hospital function like automated cardiac surgery machines – Escorts alone boasts of 35,000 bypass surgeries performed over the years with a mortality rate of less than 1 %.   

The Best Cardiac Hospitals in India have Perfected the Art of Heart Care

There are reasons why Indian heart facilities are able to maintain such consistently high standards of treatment and care.  The more obvious one, of course are the country’s surgeons, many of whom having honed their expertise in the US and UK have returned home to join specialty hospitals like Apollo.  Liberalization reforms in India have also made it easier for hospitals to import sophisticated equipment – in fact, close to 99% of equipment that’s available in foreign hospitals is available in India too.  Then there’s the “genetic” factor – South Asians in general and Indians in particular are genetically predisposed to cardiac disease.  A majority of the cardiac patients treated at Escorts, for instance, aren’t Caucasian patients on a medical tourism package – they’re Indians.  Surgeons are like the rest of us – they tend to get really good at what they do often!