Turkey as a Medical Tourism Center
Turkey as a Medical Tourism Center
Turkey can be said to be an expanding and growing center for medical tourism due to its geography placement and technological support systems.
Turkey is uniquely placed both in proximity and geographic placement alongside or at the peripheries of either Europe or the Middle East. It is in the crossroads so to speak.
Currently Turkey receives gross payments and revenue in the range of $ 400 million in the medical and health tourism sectors. There is a lot of potential for growth since the size of the medical tourist industry is said to be in the range of 130 billion dollars.
The scope of medical tourism that a country can serve is broad and deep – it is not only in simple procedures such as dental care or more extreme specialized procedures, which used to be the domain of teaching hospitals in the industrialized countries such as cardiac bypass surgeries, hip and knee orthopedic surgeries and even cardiac, kidney and even lung transplant surgeries but even more run of the mill surgeries such as eye and dental exams and cosmetic and plastic surgeries.
Costs are one factor. The estimate is that whereas eye surgery in terms of laser surgery for both eyes runs in the ranges of 3,000 – 5,000 Euros – this can be afforded in a competent Turkish medical center for $ 1500 Euros even when travel and transportation as well as hotel and routine hospitality industry costs are included.
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