In related news...
Police are investigating a complaint from a witch doctor in North West Pakistan about his lost tools...
Scientists are treating this as proof of what they always suspected, parts of Pakistan is still in the Stone Age.
Wondering whether this phenomenon will drive up costs in India? Can't say how it will turn out in the long run but short term benifits are clear -
1. Indian doctors will be able to afford the best equipment in the world. They are quite an innovative bunch and I often get to hear in the news about how some procedure was adapted to provide low cost health care to our masses. Now with the the current and state-of-the-art equipment they are sure to equal the best in the world. 2. Might reduce brain-drain as our best talent can earn mega bucks without leaving for foriegn shores. 3. The extra dough could be used to subsidise health care to our vast rural population who depend on goverment run primary healthcare centres. 4. Could complement our fast-growing biotech industry.
In a way this was happening from a long time. There were lots of tourists to Kerala http://keralatourism.com/html/k2100frm.htm who enjoyed traditional Ayurvedic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda therapies. Then there were the Russians who came here for Dental care which was then dubbed Dental tourism. More importantly, there is a steady stream of patients from neigbouring Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan who come here for quality healthcare.
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In related news... Police are investigating a complaint from a witch doctor in North West Pakistan about his lost tools... Scientists are treating this as proof of what they always suspected, parts of Pakistan is still in the Stone Age.
The Indian perspective...
Wondering whether this phenomenon will drive up costs in India? Can't say how it will turn out in the long run but short term benifits are clear -
1. Indian doctors will be able to afford the best equipment in the world. They are quite an innovative bunch and I often get to hear in the news about how some procedure was adapted to provide low cost health care to our masses. Now with the the current and state-of-the-art equipment they are sure to equal the best in the world.
2. Might reduce brain-drain as our best talent can earn mega bucks without leaving for foriegn shores.
3. The extra dough could be used to subsidise health care to our vast rural population who depend on goverment run primary healthcare centres.
4. Could complement our fast-growing biotech industry.
In a way this was happening from a long time. There were lots of tourists to Kerala http://keralatourism.com/html/k2100frm.htm who enjoyed traditional Ayurvedic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda therapies. Then there were the Russians who came here for Dental care which was then dubbed Dental tourism. More importantly, there is a steady stream of patients from neigbouring Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan who come here for quality healthcare.