14-Oct-17 Pakistan’s most populous province has adopted the Turkish approach to healthcare to develop its facilities. "We have decided to follow the Turkish healthcare model, which is the best system in the world," Shebaz Sharif, Punjab’s chief minister said. [image: Yeni Şafak]

13-Oct-17 Indian officials announced medical tourism in the country can grow to become a USD9 bn industry by 2020 and that India is among the "fastest growing medical tourism destinations in Asia", noting that medical tourism has shifted towards Asia. [image: FICCI]

12-Oct-17 The Maayo Medical medical center in the Philippines has unveiled specialty and wellness clinics such as its eye center, aesthetics institute and urology center, aiming to become a health centre for Southeast Asia. [image: Allan Cuizon / SunStar]

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11-Oct-17 Cancer patients at Parkway Pantai's hospitals in Singapore can now benefit from personalised treatment plans and more accurate diagnostics thanks to cancer genomics testing through Next Generation Sequencing technology, which can retrieve more comprehensive genetic information from tumour tissue. [image: Media OutReach]