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Why travel to Malaysia for medical treatment?
One of the best health travel destinations outside the US, Malaysia offers the most attractive healthcare and tourism opportunities for US medical tourists. Besides quality healthcare services, lower costs, and availability of competent and experienced doctors, "Medical Tourism in Malaysia" also gives you ample opportunity to explore this exotic tourist destination.
Listed below are some of the major factors that are increasingly making Malaysia one of the most favored medical tourism destinations for adult Americans:
- Quality Health Care - the healthcare system in Malaysia is considered one of the finest available in medical tourism destinations worldwide. Medical care in Malaysia is excellent in quality, with a wide network of hospitals providing medical facilities and services that match with the best of international standards. Malaysian physicians, hospitals and technology ensure that you receive the best in terms of quality and service.
- Low Cost Options - the cost-effectiveness of Malaysian medical procedures is one of the prime reasons why more and more American health tourists are choosing Malaysia for medical treatments. Medical treatments in Malaysia typically cost a fraction of what they would in the US. When you get the same (in some cases better) medical care at far lower rates, it's only logical that you will opt for the relatively inexpensive option.
- High Quality Medical Expertise- the medical system in Malaysia is backed by a team of highly expert, English speaking doctors and surgeons, with a majority of them having undergone professional trainings in esteemed institutions in the US, the UK or Australia. In case you were wondering that there might be a communication problem, rest assured that the Malaysian medical professionals are experts at handling foreign patients.
- Modern, state of the art hospitals and clinics - You'll find most Malaysian hospitals exceptionally clean, well-equipped with hi-tech equipment, and staffed with well trained, highly skilled professionals.
- In a number of hospitals you'll find the newest true 64 slice unit CT scanners that take even less than 5 heartbeats or 5 seconds to scan the heart and coronary arteries. Most hospitals also use global conferencing to communicate with the patient's home physicians back home.
- Tourism - one of the most beautiful countries in this part of the world, Malaysia is renowned for its spectacular beaches, lovely hill stations, evergreen forests, national parks and outstanding architectural sites. For example, the Petronas Twin Towers are famous all over the world. A health vacation in Malaysia will give you the opportunity to enjoy a tropical holiday along with your treatment.
- On-time Treatments - Waiting time for medical treatments for health tourists in Malaysia is almost negligible compared to that in the US. You'll find that arrangements for hospitalization in Malaysia can be made immediately upon arrival in the country. Examinations and work-up tests, and any follow-up treatment or surgery, if necessary, are done right away.
- Other conveniences - Most Malaysian hospitals enjoy excellent staff to patient ratio. Some of the hospitals are modeled after high-class hotels so that guests feel utterly pampered. Here you'll get a range of accommodation from comfortable rooms to lavish suites with personal butlers and full-time nurses. Even your partner can enjoy sleep-in facility in some hospitals at pretty reasonable rates. Foremost among these is the Gleneagles Intan Medical Center (website: in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. Their "International Patient Assistance" program is specifically targeted at health tourists.
These reasons, thus, account for the popularity of the country amongst the medical tourists as a place to go for medical tourism.
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