A VIEW ON MEDICAL TOURISM
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Medical tourism has been developing at a constant rate in the recent years. The high prices for some treatments in the developed countries opened new markets in other locations around the world. High quality medical services and state of the art technologies offered in these countries, managed to attract numerous tourists in this sector. Medical tourism represents a multi-billion dollar industry at a global scale, having a strong impact on the economies of the involved countries as well as of the patients themselves.
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