Monday, December 22, 2014

Seeing the doctor, overseas: medical tourism booms in Asia

Bangladeshi woman Nusrat Hussein Kiwan, pictured at the International Patients Centre reception area, at a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur, on December 9, 2014 The lines snaking into Bangladesh's overwhelmed hospitals are often so long, says Nusrat Hussein Kiwan, that they extend into the street outside -- too many patients seeking too few quality doctors. So, through a Google search, the wife of a Bangladeshi construction executive chose a Malaysian hospital for her heart bypass surgery. "It's peaceful here, and my doctors are good," Kiwan, 65, said during a post-op check-up at a Kuala Lumpur private hospital, looking full of life in an orange headscarf and sparkling gold bracelets. US-based industry resource Patients Beyond Borders estimates the world market is expanding by 25 percent per year -- it reached $55 billion with 11 million medical tourists in 2013.








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