Medical tourism is a type of tourism that is carried out to maintain, improve, and regain an individual's physical and mental health.
Today, the phenomenon of “health tourism” or “medical tourism” has been widely welcomed by people around the world. But what is health tourism?
The World Tourism Organization (UN-WTO) has defined health tourism as: a trip that a person makes to another country with the aim of receiving medical services. In other words, a tourist, by traveling from his place of residence, benefits from the medical services of the destination country to ensure his physical or mental health.
The causes of the emergence of this phenomenon are the lack of some medical services, high costs, and the lack of advanced medical technologies in the country of origin.
Currently, medical tourism is widely welcomed in the world, and many developing countries have seized this opportunity and are using it to increase the gross national product and improve the quality standards of providing medical services in their hospitals and medical centers.
The main requirements of this nascent industry are the existence of advanced medical centers and hospitals with appropriate facilities.
Our country has the potential to become one of the strongest and best health tourism destinations in the world, given the urgent need of neighboring countries to receive appropriate medical services, and the existence of scientific power and competent human resources.
Health tourism services at Venus Medical Complex In recent years, some Iranian medical centers have succeeded in receiving official licenses and international certificates to provide medical services to international tourists and have welcomed foreign patients.
Providing health tourism services in Iranian medical centers has been widely welcomed.
One of the important reasons for this phenomenon is the reasonable cost of medical and health services in Iran compared to developed countries. The cost of treatment for international patients in Iran is much lower. In addition, our country is geographically located in the vicinity of more than 10 countries with a population of over 200 million people. Most of these countries are also very weak in the field of medicine and treatment and cannot compete with Iranian doctors and skilled medical staff. That is why these countries are a potential market for our medical tourism industry.
It should be noted that Venus Medical Complex uses the latest equipment and technologies to treat patients. It goes without saying that in addition to advanced equipment and services, Venus Medical Complex also has renowned doctors whose reputation can help to boost the health tourism industry in Gilan province.