Turkey’s Booming Medical Tourism Industry Takes Hospitality To The Next Level – Ward 3, Room 24!
Once Turkey was renowned for its ancient heritage and its mighty Byzantine and Ottoman empires.
Today, the country is fast developing a booming medical tourism industry where Turkish kilims and exotic clothing sold in dusty bazaars have been passed over in favour of new porcelains, cosmetic procedures, laser surgeries, surgical procedures and treatments.
Leading the charge are the cities of Izmir, Kusadasi and Istanbul, where many of the ‘cutting-edge’ clinics are located. And in town, the medical business is showing no signs of abating.
Travellers from Western Europe to Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan as well as Albania and Armenia and Georgia are flocking to Turkey to spend a few nights at the Florence Nightingale Hospital, internationally recognised for its orthopaedics and vascular disease treatments and its comfortable wards where patients are pampered.
“Fields of oncology and plastic surgery as well as prostate surgeries are just some of the other highly-skilled services Turkey is offering at fees European, North American and even Australian clinics cannot compete with,” said travel specialist, John Clarke.
What’s more the neighbours are getting in on the act.
Turkmenistan has developed a five billion dollar medical health tourism project which will include tourism facilities and accommodations, medical spas, state-of-the-art fitness centres and clinics to care for the influx of medical travellers seeking affordable and accessible surgeries and treatments.
“As more people discover and read about Turkey’s thriving medical tourism industry, they’ll soon learn that they can enjoy huge savings of up to 50 – 70 per cent on procedures and surgeries by comparison to what you pay in Australia and other Western countries,” added Clarke.
To keep up with the demand a medical tourism portal called PlacidWay has been launched to facilitate the variety of medical treatments and procedures available in Turkey.
But at what cost? It’s all in the ticket.
Jill Walsh – Melbourne
Turkey has many JCI accredited hosiptals which are helping medical tourists from U.S, Europe, Middle East.
Here are few things that are positive about medical tourism.
1. Medical Tourism provides an excellent and proven solution for those in need in developed countries or from the countries in addition to those travelling else where for lack of facilities.
2. In long run, developing countries will be building more hospitals which are world class, thus improving the health care for the local public.
3. Competition in medical sector in developed countries will benefit the consumers also.
On the other side, some of the medical tourism destinations offer little or no legal protection, in many countries there is no regulatory authority to protect medical tourists.
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