According to the Ayurvedavatarana (the “descent of Ayurveda”), ayurveda first came into being when the Hindu deity Brahma had a revelation,after which he woke up and created the Universe.

Medical tourism mean patients going to a different country for either urgent or elective medical procedures. The phenomenon in which hospitals in India being a part of that, offer sun, sand and surgery at low prices to patients from North America and Europe is gaining in popularity. The health care sector in India has witnessed an enormous growth in infrastructure in the private and voluntary sector. The private sector which was very modest in the early stages, has now become a flourishing industry equipped with the most modern state-of-the-art technology at its disposal. While India lags behind countries like Thailand as a result of airport infrastructure and other bottlenecks, health care providers such as Apollo Hospitals are expanding at 10% a year. It is estimated that 75-80% of health care services and investments in India are now provided by the private sector.

India especially seems to be a hot spot for medical tourism due to the following reasons-

Hospitals in India cost up to 5 times cheaper for North-Americans and up to 3 times as cheaper for affluent South Asians such as Singaporeans.

India as such is a popular tourist destination.It is as diverse as an entire continent (be it in terms of climate, landscapes, food, languages, culture or religion) and lighter on the pocket than most!!

It offers several traditional and authentic forms of medicine and cure such as ayurveda. We have several Indians as practicing doctors in the west Westerners have on that count some familiarity and association with Indian doctors.