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30-Nov-17 An unprecedented number of Bangladeshis travel to India, Thailand and Singapore for medical treatment because of low confidence in local doctors, with 165,000 travelling to India for treatment in 2015 alone, accounting for 50% of India's medical tourism revenue. [image: Rajb Dhar / Dhaka Tribune]
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28-Nov-17 By the end of 2017 India's Vattikuti Foundation will have 70 robots and 200 by 2020 doing about 25,000 surgeries. "We have 360 surgeons today doing robotic surgery and they just love it," said Raj Vattikuti. [image: ET Healthworld]
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27-Nov-17 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 information on treatment programmes, cost and success rates. [image: ET Healthworld]
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23-Nov-17 India's KiviHealth, an online doctor-patient collaboration tool, has raised USD400,000 in its pre-series A round led by Claris Capital. KiviHealth has more than 2,000 paying subscribers (doctors) and over 1 million patient registrations on the platform. [image: KiviHealth]
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22-Nov-17 Consumer healthcare brand Portea Medical on Tuesday announced Series C funding of USD26 mn led by new investors Sabre Partners and MEMG CDC. Portea's existing investors Accel, IFC and Qualcomm Ventures also participated. [image: Portea Medical]
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