Save Money and Your Back in India

Low Priced Spinal Fusion Surgery, Just a Plane Ride Away

You mean there’s such a thing as low priced spinal fusion surgery?  Surely for something as complex as surgery on the spinal cord is well beyond affordable; at least it seems that way in the United States.  With costs around $60,000, low priced spinal fusion surgery seems more like an oxymoron than a reality.  Fortunately, low costs of labor and living, technological advancements, and a growing demand for safe, affordable health care has led to a niche market called medical tourism.  Ironically, the concept of traveling abroad for medical treatment isn’t new.  Patients from other countries used to travel to the United States for procedures that weren’t available in their homelands.  Technology and globalization have made the market quite accessible and certainly more affordable to patients all over.

 

Is Your Medical Vacation Going to Be Safe?

If you’re going to travel thousands of miles health care, you certainly want to know that your medical vacation will be safe.  Even when it doesn’t concern surgery or medical treatment, people tend to take precautions when it comes to their backs. However, when it comes to surgery, the risks, issues, and concern become greater.  Add to the stress of the procedure the unfamiliar place and faces of an Indian hospital and staff, and the overall discomfort becomes even more acute. 

 

If you want your medical vacation to India to be safe, the first step involves educating yourself on what accredited facilities exists to meet your needs.  You can narrow your search from there. When your nurses and doctors speak to you in English and have some of the best bedside mannerisms in the world, concerns about your medical vacation’s safety will fade away, if not disappear altogether as you realize they know what they’re doing.

 

Traveling Abroad Can Make Safe Health Care Affordable Too

Wockhardt Hospitals, in India, are among the best in the world attracting patients from around the globe.  Wockhardt even has a special division dedicated to the care and treatment of international patients (medical tourists).  Moreover, the same spinal fusion surgery at Wockhardt is only $8,500, less than a quarter of the cost in the United States.  Such savings, plus the benefits of first class service and amenities, have drawn thousands of medical tourists each year to Wockhardt Hospital for various low priced procedures including spinal fusion surgery, heart valve replacements, tummy tucks, and everything in between.