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Role, Rules, and Regulations for Global Medical Tourism Facilitators

Role, Rules, and Regulations for Global Medical Tourism Facilitators

Anita Medhekar
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522584346|ISBN10: 152258434X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522584971|EISBN13: 9781522584353
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8434-6.ch006
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Medhekar, Anita. "Role, Rules, and Regulations for Global Medical Tourism Facilitators." Handbook of Research on International Travel Agency and Tour Operation Management, edited by Mohinder Chand Dhiman and Vinay Chauhan, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 81-100. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8434-6.ch006

APA

Medhekar, A. (2019). Role, Rules, and Regulations for Global Medical Tourism Facilitators. In M. Chand Dhiman & V. Chauhan (Eds.), Handbook of Research on International Travel Agency and Tour Operation Management (pp. 81-100). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8434-6.ch006

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Medhekar, Anita. "Role, Rules, and Regulations for Global Medical Tourism Facilitators." In Handbook of Research on International Travel Agency and Tour Operation Management, edited by Mohinder Chand Dhiman and Vinay Chauhan, 81-100. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8434-6.ch006

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Abstract

Global medical travel has transformed medical travel/tourism facilitator's role, making it more sophisticated and globally competitive with their presence on the internet, and providing medical tourism packages catering to patient-centered healthcare needs. The important role played by medical tourism facilitators cannot be ignored along with rules and regulations required to accredit these medical travel companies. They act as mediators between the potential patients and the private healthcare providers, physicians in the global medical tourism supply chain, along with airlines and hotel, thus, reducing a medical traveler's worries regarding surgery abroad. Facilitators assist the potential medical tourists to plan and make healthcare decisions for travelling abroad, choosing and matching the patient with the specialty hospital for surgery, country and making all travel, accommodation and visa arrangements prior to travel, coordination between doctor and patient, personal nursing attendant, follow-up care and possibility of sightseeing, rest and recovery at the host-country of treatment. Thus, the chapter examines the reasons for the growth of global healthcare through medical travel/tourism in developing countries such as India, Thailand, Mexico, Poland and Malaysia and identifies the role, rules and regulations required for accredited medical tourism facilitators to connect patients with the healthcare providers in various countries to meet specific healthcare needs.

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