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Medical tourism gasps for breath
Updated On: 30 December, 2009 07:27 AM IST | | Alisha Coelho
With the Home Ministry making visa rules more stringent...
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External Affairs Minister S M Krishna may have asked Shashi Tharoor to zip it, but the fact remains that visa clampdowns in the country have pricked the magic bubble of medical tourism in the city.
In fact, Tharoor's tweet on the visa rules making India a less attractive destination seems to be already coming true.
Cosmetic surgeon Manoj Manwani, who practices at CritiCare Hospital in Juhu, said foreign patients were now opting for East Asian countries.
"Indonesia and Thailand are becoming popular for medical tourists, as treatments there are as cheap as they are here and there aren't that many restrictions on visas.
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