Medical Tour Israel - First-Class Medical Tourism Services Abroad to Patients From All Over the World

    HAIFA, ISRAEL, October 15, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Israel is a major medical tourism destination primarily due to its worldwide reputation for high quality healthcare and world-renowned medical facilities. Complicated treatments and procedures that would be unavailable in other countries are available in Israel at reasonable prices, including orthopedic surgeries, oncology and cancer treatments, fertility and IVF treatments and neurosurgery.

Patients from Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa are drawn to Israel's quality healthcare services.

Americans (mostly of Jewish ancestry) and Western Europeans come to avail themselves of high quality medical treatment at a very reasonable cost.

Common Treatments Done by Medical Tourists in Israel
Hospitals and healthcare facilities in Israel offer top of the line procedures and services for medical travelers, including complicated medical procedures and treatment which include but are not limited to the following:

* Oncology
* Orthopedics
* Cardiology
* Cardiac Surgery
* Neurosurgery
* Neurology
* Ear, Nose & Throat surgeries
* Endocrinology
* Gastroenterology
* General Surgery
* Pediatrics
* Urology
* Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery
* Ophthalmology

Statistics of Medical Tourism in Israel

Thousands of medical travelers have visited Israel in the last few years to avail themselves of the sophisticated healthcare and medical procedures that this country has to offer. In 2006, approximately 15,000 foreign nationals entered the country specifically for various medical treatments. Approximately 50% of these visitors were medical tourists from Russia and Eastern Europe.

Most of these patients came for medical procedures that were not available or were very expensive in their home countries, including heart surgeries, oncology and cancer treatments, bone marrow transplants and fertility treatments - Israel records the highest numbers of procedures performed compared to anywhere else in the world.

And 65% of medical visitors coming to Israel have undergone various medical treatments whilst the other 35% availed themselves of cosmetic and aesthetic surgeries and treatments.
* Vascular surgery
* Bone marrow transplants
* Pulmonology

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