04-Sep-17 Korea's LG CNS has been selected to establish Bahrain’s new national health insurance system, which will allow Bahrain to monitor people’s medical costs, prescriptions, medical treatment appropriateness and the like, in real time. [image: Business Korea]

23-Aug-17 Iran had 105,000 inbound medical visitors in the last year and plans to grow on its appeal as a medical tourism destination, with its newly announced USD260 mn Isfahan Healthcare City and a national plan to attract medical tourists. [image: Tehran Times]

18-Aug-17 More people from Kurdistan are turning to Iran for treatment or diagnosis. Medical tourism in Iran was up nearly 700% from 2012 to 2015, to 200,000 patients, and is hoped to rise to 500k in future. [image: Ozan Kose / AFP]

15-Aug-17 As Turkey continues to grow as a destination for medical tourists and attracts patients from around the world, it is estimated that the expenditure of those who come for treatment is 10x higher than those who come on vacation. [image: Daily Sabah Tourism]

03-Aug-17 Health tourism is seen as an industry which boosts Malaysia's economy, with more than 900,000 medical tourists arriving in 2016 and most of them coming from Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Vietnam, Middle Eastern countries, Australia, China and Japan. [image: Astro Awani]