Tag: MedicalTourism

The union health minister said that the advancements in India’s healthcare facilities have led to a spike of medical tourism in India. India has started issuing medical visas and is planning to soon restart E-Tourist Visas, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Thursday. The move is in a bid to boost medical tourism in India that remained hard hit due to the covid-19 pandemic. The union health minister said that the advancements in India’s healthcare facilities have led to a spike in medical tourism in India. “India has always been a popular tourist destination, but over the last few ... Read more

Union Minister of State for Culture & Tourism (Independent Charge) Shri Prahlad Singh Patel virtually attended the 5th meeting of the National Medical and Wellness Tourism Promotion Board on Monday. The National Medical and Wellness Tourism Board was formed to address impediments to the growth of Medical Tourism and to provide a dedicated institutional framework to take forward the cause of promotion of Medical Tourism, Wellness Tourism and Yoga, Ayurveda Tourism, and any other format of the Indian system of medicine covered by Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH). Eminent doctors like Dr. Naresh Trehan of Medanta, Dr. Randeep ... Read more

With the opening of the tourism industry in Kerala, medical and wellness tourism has gained tremendous momentum. Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy are the key contributors injecting a new life to the hospitality industry which has itself been on life support system for a long time now. Yoga as well as Ayurveda has been seen as natural ways of boosting immunity, improving quality of life and wellbeing of both mind and body. The fact that both don’t pose any harmful effects adds to the advantage. Both are believed to have great significance in building immunity for the body, and also help ... Read more