Tag: International Medical Travel and Business Summit

• Wednesday, July 17th 2013 - 20:21 UTC

  Latin America becoming prime destination for medical tourism

  

  The high cost of healthcare has created the lucrative phenomenon of medical tourism. An IPK International survey revealed roughly 3% of the world’s population travels to foreign countries for medical treatment, while Patients Beyond Borders, which publishes international medical travel guidebooks, reported the medical tourism industry is a 40 billion dollars a year business.