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Maharashtra seeks to boost medical tourism: Website will list hospital details and treatment costs

 01-Nov-17, ET Healthworld

To ensure transparency and accountability in the medical tourism sector, Maharashtra plans to launch a portal that will serve as a single window for information. The website will provide foreign patients with information on treatment programmes, cost and success rates.

Maharashtra seeks to boost medical tourism Website will list hospital details and treatment costs (c) ET Healthworld

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In a meeting between public health minister Deepak Sawant and private and charitable hospitals, it was decided that the portal would be the first in a series of measures to boost the sector.

Maharashtra witnesses an annual flow of nearly 50,000 patients coming from abroad for heart, orthopaedic, cancer and other ailments.

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