India is touted as the best destination for medical health tourism. The opportunities are tremendous and every sector of tourism are exploring this burgeoning growth industry, from the Government of India, travel agents, hotel companies, India’s State tourism boards and most of the hospitals, including all private hospitals. They’re seeking to combine both leisure tourism with medical tourism and capitalize upon just how inexpensive the same quality and sometimes better quality medical care costs are in India compared to the United States’ soaring medical costs.

The Government of India, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Tourism has set up a Task Force to help facilitate the medical health tourism industry and help this industry achieve its targets and to give momentum for its growth. The Task Force will fast-track any opportunities for the industry and will formulate policies for Accreditation programs for health-care institutions and will classify the medical health tourism service providers on the basis of infrastructure, quality and services provided, including services from other companies other than medical, such as companies that will improve and facilitate foreign patients transportation and accommodations. The Task Force will standardise all procedures and will facilitate foreign patients in choosing the best hospitals. Plus, the India Government will add to this support by quickly processing medical visa’s, improve flight connections and develop better infrastructure for getting from the airport to the selected hospitals or other arranged accommodations.

The Government of India has proclaimed that the treating of foreign patients is legal and it encourages medical health tourism in its country by offering export incentives and tax breaks to participating hospitals.  This in turn has caused hospitals to invest in the most current state-of-the-art medical equipment, the best skilled medical staff from around the world, create programs that integrate clinical treatments and traditional treatments with the services provided by airline carriers, tour operators and hotel companies. This partnership gives foreign patients a worry free experience before and during the medical health procedure and when they return to their native country, any aftercare required will already be in set in place once the medical health procedure is finished.