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Medical Tourism in Malaysia

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Malaysian Medical Tourism Malaysian Medical Tourism 5 Medical Tourism Contents Medical Tourism in Malaysia 1 References 4 Medical Tourism in Malaysia Medical tourism is a dynamic concept of hospitality and tourism industry. The term medical tourism described as a tourist travel in another country other than his home country due to the factors of unavailability of quality medical treatment, undeveloped state of home country, and lack of medical techniques in home country (Connell, 2008). It became popular by certain aspects that it provided affordable medicinal services, attracting by services like health spas

Medical Tourism in Malaysia

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Malaysian Medical Tourism 1ContentsMedical Tourism in Malaysia..........................................................................................................1References........................................................................................................................................4
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Malaysian Medical Tourism 2Medical Tourism in MalaysiaMedical tourismis a dynamic concept of hospitality and tourism industry. The term medical tourism described as a tourist travel in another country other than his home country due to the factors of unavailability of quality medical treatment, undeveloped state of home country, and lack of medical techniques in home country (Connell, 2008). The Malaysian tourism often actively sought to encourage industry of Medical tourism by its efficient services or facilities provided to tourists.The history of Malaysian tourism traces from the first introduction of Medical health sector in 1999. It became popular by certain aspects that it provided affordable medicinal services, attracting by services like health spas, health resorts, and doctors’ best endeavor to introduce a fresh concept like sea and mud bathing (Turner, 2007). The Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council playing a key role in promoting and availing excellent health services in Malaysia for their foreigner tourists. The Malaysian Ministry of Health's website provides an aid to tourist by availability of their guide in plain English language. The guide includes numerous sources and information about hospitals offering medical care and treatment with an availability of entire process of reaching to the hospital with adequate information about statistics and summary of expertise in it.The most of the destination of these private hospital located mainly in the cities of Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Melaka of Malaysia. As per the appreciation given by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Malaysian government is able to provide overall excellent services in the designated health care hospitals on the basis of their overall performance. According to statistic of WHO, the Malaysia contributes six percent of their GDP to health department. It also successfully established several regional health hubs for medical tourism among different cities of the Malaysia. Moreover, several private hospitals like Country Height Health Tourism are drawing attentions of foreigner tourists on a proposed statics of approximate in able to bring 10,000 tourists monthly for medical services at a corporate level of Malaysia (Leng, 2010).
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