How Medical Tourism Is Affecting Africa's Healthcare Economy NewTimesRwanda: Africa healthcare medicaltourism economy
Annually, thousands of people globally travel abroad seeking affordable advanced medical care. This is one of the easiest ways to get a passport. Common medical procedures that people undergo on medical tourism trips include dental care, surgery, cosmetic surgery, fertility treatments, organ and tissue transplantation, and cancer treatment - per.
However, the issue is not bound to people going to seek care outside Africa, but economic implications on the poor families, fragile economies and quality-of-care issues like medical complications that affect innocent patients. Some of the practitioners in those destinations are quacks. The most concerning issue is that patients do not know how to differentiate between qualified medical providers and quacks, thus seduced by the cheap surgeries, fall for the quacks.
However, medical tourism has benefits. Often, it's true that prices are affordable in another country or that the country has more qualified staff. A case in point: an acquaintance of mine recently had a kidney issue that doctors had failed to cure in spite of the surgeries and prescriptions. When he went to India, he had a kidney operation, and he is now as healthy as ever - relieved of the pain he was suffering from.
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