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India fine-tunes medical tourism visa

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NEW DELHI: Creative Travel is promoting medical tourism with what it says an eye on a tourism restart later this year.

It is piggy-backing its promotions on the government’s recent decision to broaden the scope of medical tourism visas to include natural and alternative medical treatments, even including Yoga.

In its latest product newsletter is presents the case for an early start saying a recent government announcement allows “foreign nationals to visit India on medical visas for Ayurveda and Naturopathy treatments.”

The Creative Travel newsletter emailed to a global B2B travel planners list says  “this is a great time to take a detox trip to India, and specifically Kerala where wellness centres and retreats have opened up with enhanced safety and hygiene measures.”

But difficulties still remain for travellers even if they qualify for medical tourism visa entry. International flights from the Middle East, Europe and countries in the Asia Pacific are limited, which will hamper efforts to generate a flow of medical tourists from traditional source markets.

In addition, domestic flight capacity is strained with reduced services between major cities in India which is likely to remain for many months to come.

But as a recent Times of India report noted the government has an eye on restarting international tourism in 2021 and medical tourism is high up the agenda to gain momentum.

India’s government is all set to roll out insurance policies that will provide visitors with a cover that will include treatment for Covid-19.

According to the tourism ministry, it facilitates tie-ups between Indian insurance companies and international inbound tourists to offer cover or allow the visitor’s own insurance policy to cover treatment costs once in India.

The tourism ministry’s plan will present India as a preferred destination for medical tourism, cutting across the streams of Allopathy, Ayurveda, Naturopathy and Yoga. Discussions are underway between the National Medical and Wellness Tourism Board and Union Culture and Tourism Minister Prahlad Patel.

Indian hospitals are being encouraged to secure accreditation through the Joint Commission International (JCI), which is considered the global standard for hospitals regarding patient safety and service quality.

Medical visas can be issued within 24 hours, according to the latest update.

1 COMMENT

  1. Why do they want to continue the discrimination ?? Can they explain on what a foreigner who can only come in India under tourist visa is most “dangerous” than a foreigner who can currently come because he depend of an other kind of visa ? This is racism !! Not too far there is a beautiful country called Sri Lanka who at least do not discriminate and allow all nationalities. Shale on India !!! Always the need to act differently and to destroy humans life’s , because majority of people’s waiting desperately to come have family , loved one , partner. And between this you have country like usa who give emergency visa to women who will go for the first time to meet a scam man they meet online to marry with. Incredible India ….yeah ….

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