India's medical tourism gets Africans' attention
26-Nov-16, Big News Network
India is increasingly becoming popular with Africans seeking medical treatment overseas, because of its more affordable, state-of-the-art equipment and its highly skilled doctors. Other options for include the US and the UK, however, healthcare there is relatively expensive and getting visas to those countries can be difficult, unlike with India, where visas are issued within a week.
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The Global Health Workforce Alliance said in its 2015 report that sub-Saharan Africa was facing a severe shortage of health care professionals and lacked adequate health care coverage for those in need of medical treatment.
About 40,000 Nigerians visited India in 2015, half of them for medical reasons, such as transplant surgery, joint replacement and dental surgery, among other procedures, according to the Indian high commissioner to Nigeria, Ajjampur Ghanshyam.