Health and hospital execs to promote medical tourism
From April 30 to May 2, 2007, senior government officials and chief medical directors of premier medical hospitals in the Philippines will be in California for business meetings and presentations on Philippine medical tourism industry.
The participating hospitals are St. Luke’s Medical Center, The Medical City, Makati Medical Center, Capitol Medical Center, and University of Sto. Tomas Hospital, National Kidney and Transplant Institute, Philippine Heart Center and Asian Hospital.
A forum will be held on May 1, Tuesday, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Social Hall of the Philippine Center Building, 447 Sutter St., San Francisco, California.
At the forum, Undersecretary Jade del Mundo of the health department will provide an overview of regulatory policies and standards that govern health service delivery in the Philippines.
Ruy Moreno from the health and wellness committee of the taskforce on global competitiveness will share the public-private efforts to make medical tourism easily accessible to the global market.
Dr. Jorge Garcia from premier medical facility Asian Hospital will present the top medical and surgical procedures available for medical tourism in the Philippines today.
With healthcare costs in the U.S. rising rapidly every year, more Americans are looking to countries like the Philippines for their medical care.
Available services range from the simple to the complex, from the cosmetic to the life-saving procedures, such as dentistry, plastic surgery, kidney, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation, and cardiovascular.
In 2006, total national health expenses in the U.S. paid for by public and private insurance companies amounted to $2,169.5 billion of which professional services (physician, clinical, dental and others) was about $680 billion.
Add to this the health expenditures of one in six Americans who do not have medical insurance to get an even more staggering number!
Medical tourists can expect to be in safe hands with Filipino medical professionals educated in the best Asian schools, many of whom trained in American and Japanese medical facilities.
The country’s hospitable people and tropical environment make healing a leisurely experience.
And medical tourists get great value for their money, paying only a fraction of medical costs for the same service provided in their countries.
The participating hospitals are St. Luke’s Medical Center, The Medical City, Makati Medical Center, Capitol Medical Center, and University of Sto. Tomas Hospital, National Kidney and Transplant Institute, Philippine Heart Center and Asian Hospital.
A forum will be held on May 1, Tuesday, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Social Hall of the Philippine Center Building, 447 Sutter St., San Francisco, California.
At the forum, Undersecretary Jade del Mundo of the health department will provide an overview of regulatory policies and standards that govern health service delivery in the Philippines.
Ruy Moreno from the health and wellness committee of the taskforce on global competitiveness will share the public-private efforts to make medical tourism easily accessible to the global market.
Dr. Jorge Garcia from premier medical facility Asian Hospital will present the top medical and surgical procedures available for medical tourism in the Philippines today.
With healthcare costs in the U.S. rising rapidly every year, more Americans are looking to countries like the Philippines for their medical care.
Available services range from the simple to the complex, from the cosmetic to the life-saving procedures, such as dentistry, plastic surgery, kidney, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation, and cardiovascular.
In 2006, total national health expenses in the U.S. paid for by public and private insurance companies amounted to $2,169.5 billion of which professional services (physician, clinical, dental and others) was about $680 billion.
Add to this the health expenditures of one in six Americans who do not have medical insurance to get an even more staggering number!
Medical tourists can expect to be in safe hands with Filipino medical professionals educated in the best Asian schools, many of whom trained in American and Japanese medical facilities.
The country’s hospitable people and tropical environment make healing a leisurely experience.
And medical tourists get great value for their money, paying only a fraction of medical costs for the same service provided in their countries.
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