(CNN) Sandra Giustina is a 61-year-old uninsured American. For three years she saved her money in hopes of affording heart surgery to correct her atrial fibrillation. "They [U.S. hospitals] told me it would be about $175,000, and there was just no way could I come up with that," Giustina said.
So, with a little digging online, she found several high quality hospitals vying for her business, at a fraction of the U.S. cost. Within a month, she was on a plane from her home in Las Vegas, Nevada, to New Delhi, India. Surgeons at Max Hospital fixed her heart for "under $10,000 total, including travel."
Giustina is just one of millions around the world journeying outside their native land for medical treatment, a phenomenon known as "medical tourism." Experts say the trend in global health care has just begun. Next year alone, an estimated 6 million Americans will travel abroad for surgery, according to a 2008 Deloitte study. "Medical care in countries such as India, Thailand and Singapore can cost as little as 10 percent of the cost of comparable care in the United States," the report found.
In light of this latest news, here is my question to you:-
Do you think its safe for American patients to go abroad for their treatment?
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i don't know of other countries, but medical facilities in key Indian cities are really world class. And from the analysis of the growth in medical tourism in India in the past couple of years, it can be inferred that the medical treatment is not only economical but also up to the developed countries' standard.
So I don't think there is any thing wrong with people going to places with good track record for treatment. After all health is very important.