India fast emerging as medical tourism hub: Prez Kovind

TIL Desk/National/Bhopal/ President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said India is providing the most affordable medical facilities in the world and people from abroad, especially the neighbouring nations, visit the hospitals in the country to avail the health care services. He also said that India is fast emerging as a medical tourism hub.

“India has the cheapest medical facilities in the world and in the hospitals, especially in Delhi, people from neighbouring countries are found getting treatment more than the local patients,” Kovind said here after inaugurating ‘Arogya Manthan’, a conference on the topic ‘One Nation, One Health System’.

Referring to the coronavirus pandemic, Kovind said an invisible disease started plaguing the country two-and-a-half years back.”Only one or two per cent people remained unaffected by it,” he said. He praised the country’s scientists and doctors for their efforts in developing a vaccine that saved the lives of people.

“Hundred years back, when a pandemic broke out, it killed crores of people at one go. But the situation has now changed with the development of vaccines,” the president added.