Medical Tourism: An Untapped Opportunity for Nepal

• Krishna Pandey, Chairman, Nepal Medical Tourism Organization

Over the last few years, medical tourism has become a buzz word, fashionably coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling to another country for medical

Ethical Issues Threaten the Future of the Medical Tourism Sector?

Governments, and their national ministries of health and trade, have been accused of sacrificing their public health sectors, particularly in terms of access by rural/provincial and indigent populations, in favor of attracting foreign medical tourists with attractive currencies while using public funds to facilitate that tradeoff