Cost Of Heart Disease Treatments

Any kind of heart disease and its treatment or surgery where the chest is opened and surgery is performed on the heart directly is called open-heart surgery and is an operation that understandably worries most of the patients. Everyone is eager to get the best heart treatment at reasonable cost. In fact, heart surgery is a traumatic operation and most of the patients want the best possible treatments they can get above all else.

People can however get heart treatment or heart surgery at an affordable cost as well as enjoying some of the best cardiac care in the world. There are various heart treatment costs. Open-heart surgery costs in India are less compared to the west. In fact, in many instances of heart treatment they are only a tenth of the cost for the same treatments at comparable hospitals in Europe and the USA. Heart treatment or heart surgery can cost as much as £30,000 in the UK and up to $60,000 in the USA, depending on the nature of the treatment, medication or surgery. In best hospitals of India however, it could cost between $3,000 and $10,000 for the same heart surgery.

While cost of the treatment is a consideration; it is the quality of heart treatment that is the most important factor for most patients. The success rates of heart surgery in India's top hospitals for heart surgery are an average of 98.50%, which is on par with the leading heart treatment centers of the world. India is considered to be a world leader for quality and cost. As the quality of treatment and cost is so competitive, more and more people from around the world are choosing India for their heart treatment and surgery and a wide variety of other medical treatments.

There are a few examples of how India is becoming a world leader in heart treatment and surgery and cardiac care.

Analysts say that as many as 200,000 clinical tourists went to India last year. According to some analysts the number is far higher; as 70,000 people came for heart treatment from the Middle East alone which concluded medical tourism could earn India $2 billion a year by 2012. The Indian government predicts that $17 billion a year health-care industry of India could grow 13% in each of the next six years, boosted by medical tourism, which industry analysts conclude is growing at 30% annually. Britain's National Health Service has large waiting lists of patients who need medical procedures.

The medical schools of India produce a large number of skilled professionals. There are more than 35,000 heart specialist doctors of Indian origin in the USA alone, and the UK has a large number of Indian medical staff. Private Indian cardiac hospitals are now at the same technological level as hospitals in Europe and America. More Indian heart specialists than ever, who are practicing abroad; are now returning home to cater for the increasing medical demand; the combination of the best heart treatment in the world, with the best medical professionals, is an obvious comfort for patients who need such a serious operation as heart surgery. The savings made on heart surgery costs in India will actually allow people to take a free holiday to rest and recuperate, in one of the most diverse and beautiful countries on earth.

• John Palsson
• 21/12/2008, 8:59 PM
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