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planetMEDIX – improvement of medical care through medical tourism

The main reasons for a medical treatment abroad are:

• A better treatment comfort than in the home country,
• financial savings for services and
• treatments that are not offered in the country of origin.

There is a steady growth in the field of medical tourism. Deloitte Touche estimates that there will be about six million people by 2010, only for the US, to seek medical treatment abroad.
The worldwide movements include already contries like Thailand, Germany, Russia, China and many more.

The goal of planetMEDIX is to be the central directory for medical tourism. For this reason, the portal has been created in eight languages. It will enable the patients all over the world to finde the best possibel treatment in their own native language.
At the same time, transparency and quality in the medical treatment market will be promoted. Therefore you will find in this portal information about:

• the quality of medical services,
• the costs of the treatments, as well as
• the claims and rights of patients.
  

Medical tourism definitions

planetMEDIX : Medical tourism is the use of a medical care outside the usual geographical living environment.

Dr. Prem Jagyasi :The Medical Tourism is the set of activities in which a person travels often long distance or across the border, to avail medical services with direct or indirect engagement in leisure, business or other purposes.