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India as a Medical Tourism Hub in SAARC - a geographical analysis

@inproceedings{Rai2014IndiaAA,
  title={India as a Medical Tourism Hub in SAARC - a geographical analysis},
  author={Anu Rai and Premangshu Chakraborty and Ashis Sarkar and West Bengal},
  year={2014}
}
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Development Versus Risk in Medical Tourism: An Assessment
  • A. Rai
  • Business, Medicine
    Medical Tourism in Kolkata, Eastern India
  • 2019
TLDR
An endeavour is made to map risks concerning post-treatment issues of medical tourists, a critical perception of local patients on the medical infrastructure of the city and medical tourist arrivals and emerging issues of organ transplantation or transplant tourism.
EVALUATING THE IMAGE OF HEALTHCARE HUBS ONLINE – A CROSS SECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF GOOGLE AND FACE BOOK REVIEWS OF PRIVATE HOSPITALS OF KOLKATA, EASTERN INDIA
  • A. Rai
  • Medicine
    The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
  • 2018
TLDR
This study uniquely highlights the dual role of internet and GIS that could together strengthen the medical tourism information system for the prospective consumer and at the same time provides significance of the crowd-sourced database with field validation that could be used by professionals and policy maker for sustenance of medical tourism.

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