To the South Korean medical tourism in China surge. According to the Korean Embassy in China 16, said last year the Chinese medical tourism visa issued over 1.07 million copies, more than 386% surge in 2010. (January 17, China News Network)
Have enough information to show that in our neighboring countries, medical tourism is slowly heating up, become a new hot industry. Not long ago, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said the country this year in China to promote the newly established "medical visas" to attract more Chinese people to Japan for treatment and examination. Set up mainly to attract medical visa to China in the Asian wealthy class, valid for up to three years, and may apply for multiple entry, the nurses who are available to be accompanied by similar visas to Japan. India may have on the list, a "quality and low price" of cardiac surgery is known to attract multi-national medical tourists come to the country.
However, contrast is that both our relevant departments, or hospital, and apparently did not have sufficient preparation. Although the patient to drain out more and more, but willing to travel for medical treatment of foreigners in China are still not many, the moment this is a "popular" in the industry.
It means, in this kind of foreign competition in health care, I am afraid we are still in a passive position, it is great with the national medical resources do not match. Comparison with these countries because, in the medical equipment and medical technology, our no less. We also have many of the most advanced medical equipment, many difficult heart surgery, doctors can do. But the biggest lack of medical care may be the soft environment. Many foreigners often complain, hospital doctor in China, they are not satisfied with the medical environment. Good in those big hospitals, such as long queues of people line up to see a doctor, noisy environment. Doctor who also face language barriers, it is difficult to communicate distress. Secondly, in the treatment of patients, doctors quality of service and foreign doctors there are some gaps. Doctors appointments too short, like drug abuse, lack of respect for patient privacy, these are very common problems.
There are management problems. How to deal with medical malpractice and physician-patient conflict, many management often becomes inadequate, and whom headache. The management of foreign patients is a more difficult problem.
World Medical Tourism Congress from the news that the annual global medical tourism market is about $ 100 billion, also driven by a country's hotels, restaurants, transportation, legal and other developments have played a positive role. In the past year, there are around 600 million people to seek medical care outside their own service. Medical tourists can bring about a $ 10,000 income.
To meet this challenge and competition, one needs strong government support. Managers should be prepared as soon as possible, the introduction of a similar "medical visa" system, improve health-related laws and regulations, through more open to health management, for medical tourists and to provide more convenient service. Medical services, hospitals are also to be as soon as possible with international standards, to neighboring countries to learn, to improve the medical care environment, improve service levels, to build medical tourism brand, the initiative to actively participate in this competition.
It is said that Asia has become the world's largest medical tourism market. At present, Thailand, India, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines is the world's top five medical tourism destination, medical tourism a strong impetus to move forward in these countries. The same as Asian countries, Japan and South Korea catching up, China should choose a more proactive involvement of such a competition issue, sub-piece of "cake."
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Jan 17, 2012
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