Just figure this out. Foreign travel to India for medical purposes saw a 66% rise in 2021 despite the Covid-19 pandemic. As per information provided by the Union ministry of tourism, in 2020, 183,000 tourists came to the country for medical treatment. The number went up to 304,000 in 2021, and over 1.4 million medical tourists visited India in 2022.
Also, India was ranked 10th in the Medical Tourism Index (MTI) for 2020-2021 (out of 46 destinations in the world) by the Medical Tourism Association, a global non-profit association for the medical tourism and international patient industry. Thailand, Mexico, US, Singapore, Brazil, Turkey and Taiwan are the top destinations in terms of the number of patients for medical value travel, the tourism ministry adds.
The growing numbers are a testament to the progress of India in the global healthcare ecosystem, with the country rightly positioning itself as a preferred destination for medical value travel (MVT), or medical tourism, for…
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