15-Oct-17 Sri Lanka has several unique achievements in the field of digital health, and is the second country after the US to recognise health informatics as a medical speciality, an international medical gathering in Colombo has noted. [image: Digitalistmag.com]

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]

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11-Oct-17 Samsung India and Apollo Hospitals announced their collaboration to run jointly the Samsung-Apollo technology backed Mobile Medical Care. The program will screen large sections of the population for non-communicable diseases, particularly the under-privileged sections of the Indian population. [image: ET Healthworld]