Medical Travel To Costa Rica Supported Greatly By The PROMED Council

Feb 2, 2012 by

Recently the medical tourism has appeared as the world’s phenomenon inspired by the large health care costs. People are going for Medical Travel in order to get diverse medical medicinal treatments. Cosmetic surgery is most likely one of the most well liked procedures when going for medical travel. For a number of years, people are traveling around the world for cheaper therapies. According to one report the medical tourism can offer a wide range of medical services performed in the hospitals with a large range of medical costs for selected procedures. The medical tourism in Costa Rica has opened up a new market when it started when Canadian and American travelers started frequenting the country with the intention of getting surgeries and other medical procedures such as cosmetic plastic surgery treatments and dentistry. In fact the Costa Rican private clinics are 50% to 70% less expensive than in North America. Many of the private clinics are gearing up to take full advantage of this phenomenon by simply opening branches near the beaches and other popular tourist spots. There is one hospital in Costa Rica which works on a $40 million construction located in a 50 area tract of land in Guanacaste.

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PROMED or also known as the Council for International Promotion of Medicine in Costa Rica is a kind of non-profit private organization that carries out the coordination efforts to make certain that the health care services provided by the private medical industry in Costa Rica is of high quality. The PROMED Council is also coordinating with the international promotion of cosmetic, dental, and medical services in the country with the aim of turning the country into a center for major medical tourism destination and a center for global medicine. The Council has set in place and still continues to develop standards of regulation and the organization promotes a service provider certification while training their local certifiers and being supported by the international entities. Moreover, the organization promotes the implementation of all the necessary actions to strengthen the availability of the Medical Travel Costa Rica service in order to achieve a wider international competitiveness.        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROMED announces that the annual International Medical Travel Conference will be held in Costa Rica. The third annual Medical Tourism Conference will be held on April 23 to 25, 2012. The International Hotel San Jose, Costa Rica has been the chosen site where the PROMED Council and the Costa Rican Tourism Institute will host the conference. The event will boast a varied palette of guests from health care providers, hospitals, transportation companies, medical technology firms, airlines, hotels, and many more. Prominent speakers from local and international will also be giving their workshops and seminars on different aspects of the medical tourism with the purpose of giving the listeners a deeper understanding on the medical tourism industry. This conference will also offer excellent experience for the executives of insurance companies, health insurance companies, insurance agents, and third party administrators who are interested in medical and dental tips.

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