Medical Tourism is the concept of traveling to a particular destination to avail the opportunity of the world-class Healthcare services offered by the best experienced Healthcare professionals at the technologically most advanced medical facilities in complete privacy and for affordable costs. The Healthcare procedure is usually combined with a family vacation.

The concept of Medical Tourism is not a new one. The first recorded instance of medical tourism dates back thousands of years when Greek pilgrims traveled from all over the Mediterranean to the small territory in the Saronic Gulf called Epidauria. This territory was the sanctuary of the healing God Asklepios. Epidauria became the original travel destination for medical tourism. In the recent past patients from underdeveloped countries used to travel to the advanced industrialized developed countries to take the benefit of advanced medical health care in the hospitals, recently the trend is reversing.

Currently medical tourists or medical travelers from developed industrialized countries are traveling in large numbers abroad where the quality of healthcare is equal to or even better than the standards in their own country and yet the cost is significantly lower. These healthcare destination countries also offer numerous options for escapes to vacation touring trips, sight-seeing, shopping, exploring journeys and lounging on sun drenched exotic beaches for medical health care travelers.

A combination of many factors has lead to the recent increase in the popularity of medical tourism or Medical value travel. Exorbitant cost of basic health care and medical insurance cover, high cost of modern medical facilities in advanced countries, ease and affordability of international travel, favorable currency exchange rates in the global economy, rapidly improving technology and high standards of medical care in the developing countries, best medical health care education at the medical schools, proven safety of healthcare in selected foreign nations, international accreditation of foreign hospitals and access to U.S., U.K. and Australian board certified surgeons operating in selected foreign countries have all contributed their share to this rapid development of global medical tourism or medical health care outsourcing.

Health care tourism or medical health care value travel has also emerged as a most popular form of vacationing mixing a broad spectrum of overseas medical health care services with leisure, a visit to health care resort or a health SPA abroad, fun and relaxation together thereby maximizing the value of vacation travel abroad, a holiday retreat with wellness and health care.

CORPORATE OR INSTITUTIONAL MEDICAL TOURISM:

A new trend of outsourcing health care tourism services overseas is Corporate or Institutional medical tourism where corporations are coming up with employee healthcare benefit strategies that would save on corporate medical treatment costs, particularly the corporate are concerned about the rising cost of business health insurance that comes with high premiums to cover surgical interventions and hospitalization expenses for their employees.

Over the recent past most employees health care providers have seen certain common issues such as cardiac stress, obesity and orthopedics, which are often very expensive and a setback to overall productivity levels of the employees, the solution to save costs on such things and to get better productivity level is to opt for Institutional or corporate medical treatment abroad.

Life Smile facilitates global corporate medical treatment abroad and provides an opportunity to strike a perfect balance between high quality employee health care and lower cost advantage on the part of the corporate expenses for the employee health care. The traditional approaches to deal with increasing cost of employee healthcare have done little to decrease the costs and sometimes lead to discontented employees whereas the corporate medical surgery treatment abroad and wellness plans provide an easy alternative to save the costs incurred on employee health care and this also keeps the employees happy when they enjoy a family vacation overseas, in privacy, comfort and relaxed setting with the experience of the world-class, advanced health care treatments.

In addition to the regular offshore medical surgery treatment options by board certified, experienced doctors and surgeons at world-class hospital and clinical facilities overseas, Life Smile also offers attractive health care packages on holistic health care therapies, lifestyle management packages, wellness programs, Yoga and meditation sessions, diabetes and hypertension management programs for the corporate clients providing employee health care plans abroad.

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH TOUR FACILITATION BY LIFE SMILE:

Life Smile facilitates medical health care tourism services to NINE countries for medical surgery treatments in ARGENTINA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, COSTA RICA, GERMANY, HUNGARY, INDIA, MALAYSIA and THAILAND. Life Smile would very soon provide medical health care travel facilitation services to the hospitals and clinics in SIX other countries- PHILLIPINES, MEXICO, SOUTH AFRICA, SINGAPORE, ISRAEL and POLAND. Life Smile in association with the international partners also undertakes medical health care travel facilitation to FRANCE, COLOMBIA, HONGKONG, CHINA, TURKEY,AUSTRIA, BOLIVIA, CYPRUS, ROMANIA, SLOVAKIA, CROATIA, MACEDONIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, EGYPT, GREECE, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, SRI LANKA, TUNISIA AND ITALY.

MEDICAL TOURISM IN INDIA:

India has always been a regional health care hub for the health care tourists from the neighboring countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, UAE and Maldives ; recently India has emerged as one of the most important Global destinations for medical tourism or health care travel. Now international patients from the developed countries like USA, Canada, UK, Europe etc. travel to India for the low-cost medical surgery treatments like knee joint replacement, total hip replacement, hip resurfacing, weight loss procedures- gastric lap band, RNY gastric bypass, heart procedures, elective surgeries and also for rejuvenation therapies promised by yoga and Ayurveda. However, a nice blend of top-class medical expertise at attractive prices is helping more and more corporate hospitals in India to lure global foreign patients for high end surgeries like organ transplants.

As more and more patients from Europe, North America and other affluent nations with very high medical costs and long wait lists look for effective options of immediate, low-cost, affordable treatments, medical health care travel to India is definitely on the cards for most of them and the fast growing Indian corporate health sector is fully geared to meet that need. Medical tourism to India is not just cost savings or the high standard of medical care facility, but also the waiting time for medical surgery treatment procedures in India is much lower than in any other country.

HEALTH CARE TOURISM IN INDIA WITH LIFE SMILE:

Life Smile facilitates world-class Health care tourism services for international medical tourists arriving in India by facilitating the best of healthcare with total range of the quality concierge services. The top doctors and surgeons in India which are on the healthcare panel of Life Smile are US, UK, Australia Board certified, highly trained, and have worked in North America or Europe and are familiar with the advanced technology, current healthcare trends and the overseas patients arriving in India feel comfortable with their warm and pleasant attitude.

To offer the best to medical health care tourist, the health care centers- hospitals, clinics and research facilities in India that are associated with Life Smile are well equipped with the latest medical state-of-the-art modern technologies. These internationally accredited, modern corporate hospitals with five star facilities and highly qualified, dedicated Healthcare professionals provide world-class treatments with comparable or even better overall global success rates and service levels. Indian doctors and surgeons are one of the best qualified healthcare professionals due to the exposure to the highest standards of the medical education and training in their respective specialties so a very fair percentage of Indian doctors serve the humanity with the best reputed Healthcare institutions all over the world including in USA, Europe, Canada, U.K., Asia and Australia etc. Healthcare providers with Life Smile in India believe in delivering high quality Healthcare with dedicated professional approach treating each patient with genuine individual attention, compassion, care and respect.

The ranges of treatments the medical travelers visiting India from abroad obtain during their medical tour to India vary widely through all medical specialties; they start from simple comprehensive medical check up to elective procedures such as rhinoplasty, liposuction, tummy tuck, breast augmentation, face lifts, dental procedures- dental implants, veneers, dental whitening, Eye- LASIK, IVF and others. Usually overseas patients visit India for larger and life-saving procedures such as joint replacement, liver transplant, kidney transplant, bone marrow transplant and cardiac bypass surgery etc. Health care tour to India with Life Smile means low cost medical surgery treatments, high quality medical care, Lowest or nil wait time for critical treatments, Fluent English speaking healthcare staff with cheaper and reliable facilitation services are the best incorporating features of medical tourism to India.

In addition to JCI (JCAHO, USA) accredited, National Accredition board (NABH) accredited and ISO certified International hospitals and clinics serving the global medical tourists, India has the best of tourism interest destinations on the planet like Taj Mahal, Himalayas, sea beaches, wild life and other ideal sight seeing locations for a perfect group and family vacation.

For a safe, comfortable and affordable health care travel to India, Life Smile plans and facilitates the complete medical health care tour package including facilitation of priority health care appointments and procedures, personal assistance, all transfers, welcome on arrival and see-off at airport, accommodations of your choice, peaceful recuperation activities in complete anonymity and sight seeing tours.

Welcome to the best of health care with Life Smile in India,