16-Jun-17 Over 1.4 mn Americans went abroad for medical treatment in 2016 and Latin America is receiving the lion’s share, with low cost and increasingly excellent medical care, combined with developed tourist infrastructure. [image: Global Health Intelligence]

15-Jun-17 Kabarak University has partnered with international organisations such as GE Healthcare to build and fit out a mission hospital in Kenya designed to train local healthcare providers and attract medical tourists, with 500 beds. [image: The Star]

14-Jun-17 At Argentina's International Medical Tourism Congress, healthcare executives agreed they see an opportunity to develop the country's private health capacity for medical tourism, leveraging its extremely well outfitted and staffed private healthcare facilities. [image: IMTJ]

14-Jun-17 A medical tourism project intended to attract thousands of Chinese to a 5-star hospital in Auburn, Alabama, lacks investors, federal government approval, or hospital partners. A crackdown on birth tourism by President Trump has contributed to the failure. [image: IMTJ]

13-Jun-17 A delegation of Ethiopian government officials invited India's CARE chain of hospitals to train Ethiopian doctors in tertiary care including surgery, and opened the door to opening of a CARE hospital in Ethiopia. [image: Ethiogrio]