Medical Tourism in Bangalore: Scope and Challenges - ijcsmr

International Journal of Computer Science and Management Research Vol 2 Issue 3 March 2013ISSN 2278-733X• Overseas medical care not covered by many insuranceplayers.• Under-investment in healthcare infrastructure.VII. FUTURE / MEASURES TO ENCOURAGEMEDICAL TOURISMMinistry of Health and Family Welfare with Ministry ofTourism set up a task force to evaluate the opportunities in theindustry and formulate a policy to accredit healthcareinstitutions. The need of the hour is to club together a coupleof pathies as we have a strong base of yoga, naturopathy, andayurveda, as alternative healing therapies. Following are somepoints that must be taken into account to encourage medicaltourism:• Create incentive structures (e.g. tax breaks) which encouragethe corporate sector to set-up more infrastructure.• Need to set-up more high-value hospitals/health carefacilities – specialty facilities with state of the art equipmentand high service levels.• Develop business models to make these facilities have asmaller gestation period.• Private firms in the insurance sector should set-up medicalinsurance facilities and also tie-up with foreign insurancecompanies to cover foreigners coming into India forhealthcare facilities.• Corporate in the healthcare sector should actively controlmedical fraud, insurance fraud in order to encourage insurancefirms to provide medical insurance products.[5] Sharmila R Umamaheswari, “Why are Medical TouristsFlying To India?”, Facts For You, Oct. 2008, Vol.29, No. 1.[6] Dr. S Mahesh Kumar, “Tourism and Hospitality: Room forGrowth”, Facts For You, July 2010, Issue Vol. 30 No. 10[7] “Managing New Health Markets”, Indian Managementvol.47 Issue 2, Feb. 2008.[8] Prosenjit Datta and Gina s. Krishnan “Global HealthTrade”, Business World, December 22, 2003.[9] Gina s. Krishnan “the check-up”, Business world, July2005 “India Fosters Growing 'Medical Tourism' Sector", TheFinancial Times, 2 July 2003 (Ajmeri).[10] http://www.meditripsindia.com/index_more.html[11] http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-02-28/bangalore/27874769_1_medical-tourism-foreign-patientssuper-speciality-hospital[12] http://www.mybangalore.com/article/1010/top-5-hospitals-for-medical-tourism-in-bangalore.html[13]http://www.chillibreeze.com/whitepapers/medicaltourism1.aspVII. CONCLUSIONThe medical tourism industry has thus found an effectivestrategy to boost up its market by offering a wide range ofmedical tourism packages. Medical tourism services providedetailed information on all different medical tourism packagesalong with some valuable suggestions as well. With hospitals,hotels, conveyance facilities meeting international standards,medical tourism package.REFRENCES[1] Ajmeri, S. R. (August 2012,). MEDICAL TOURISM - AHEALTHIER FUTURE FOR INDIA. Arth Prabhand: AJournal of Economics and Management .[2] V Kubendran, “Medical Tourism: Advantage India”, FactsFor You, January 2006, Issue Vol. 27, No.4[3] Rakesh Kumar Goswami, “Medical Tourism: The NextBest Thing”, Facts For You, January 2007, Issue Vol. 27,No.4.[4] Dr. I Satya Sundaram, “Tourism: India Awakens To‘Incredible’ Opportunities”, Facts For You, Issue Vol. 28,No.3, December 2007.Shama Mankikar et.al.1988www.ijcsmr.org