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Nushaiba Iqbal

How India is becoming a top destination for medical tourists

Why do large private hospitals in India track global oil prices and regime changes around the world? As the preferred tertiary healthcare provider to many unwell people in oil-rich countries, it determines how many patients they treat, according to Max Hospitals’ Medical Value Tourism (MVT) team.

India issued 463,725 visas for medical travel in 2024, a number that depends on its relations with other countries, the economic conditions in those countries and the global economy, among other things.

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