ABSTRACT
Medical tourism is a silent revolution that has been sweeping across the healthcare landscape of India for almost a decade. According to the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII, 2007), India is unique as it offers holistic medicinal services. With yoga, meditation, ayurveda, allopathy, and other systems of medicines, India offers a unique basket of services to an individual that is diffi cult to match by other countries. Also, clinical outcomes in India are at par with the world’s best centres, besides having internationally qualifi ed and experienced specialists. With the international media constantly telecasting scenes of white people getting knees replaced, hips resurfaced, and dental works done in India by the West-trained doctors at throw-away prices, often in the ambience of a fi ve star resort; the demand from the nationals of Western Europe and the USA for medial treatment in India is on the increase.
