Medical tourism is a growing source of foreign exchange as well as prestige and goodwill outside the country. Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in India is much affordable than in any other western countries. Our country is a very large country with innumerable tertiary health care centers each specializing in different areas of tertiary care. Urosurgery is the western country is approximately 10 times more than that in this country. It possesses well qualified surgeons with the experience of various medical fields. International patients who are in a search of a low cost surgery are moving forward to eastern countries like India. Medical tourism is an example of how our country is profiting from globalization and outsourcing.

It is also a new form of consumer diplomacy, whereby foreigners who receive medical services here, help the country to promote itself as a business and tourism destination. It also hosts medical tourists from industrialized countries, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, but also from its neighbors Bangladesh, China and Pakistan.

It faces intense regional competition in this sector, particularly from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. A wide-range of services is on offer. Ministry of tourism brochures advertise cardiac surgery, minimally invasive surgery, oncology services, orthopedics and joint replacement, Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in India and holistic health care, provided by about 45 hospitals promoted as “centers of excellence”Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy is a minimally invasive procedure which is performed to remove stone from the kidney by inserting a tube through the skin into the kidney.

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