Korea has been a popular destination for patients from Asian countries, but its expertise in medical tourism has so far been underappreciated in other parts of the world, particularly the Middle East.
The healthcare index of the Bombay Stock Exchange rose to a 52-week high on Friday. A record increase in revenues from domestic drug sales and anticipation on a new healthcare Bill in the world’s biggest medicine market, the US, which is expected to encourage export there of low-cost medicines, were the reasons attributed.
KHIDI (Korea Healthcare Industry Development Institute) will hold the first national healthcare and medical tourism conference in Korea on April 13-16th, 2010, and the event promises to be the biggest global healthcare and medical tourism conference in Asia.