Call for collaborative efforts to build Pakistan’s potential for medical tourism – Newspaper

KARACHI: Stakeholders representing government officials, health experts and representatives of private hospitals have underscored the need for collaborative efforts to build Pakistan’s potential for medical tourism.

They were speaking at the inaugural session of the four-day ‘21st Health Asia Exhibition and Conference’ at the Expo Centre.

At a session titled “Future Hospital – Inward Medical Tourism”, the experts highlighted the country’s potential for attracting foreign nationals and said local hospitals were already providing treatment to Afghan and Iranian nationals and that this capacity could easily be enhanced to SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries through collaborative efforts of the…