August 19, 2014 | 6:08 am | Print
By Shomari Scott
Op-Ed Contributor
AS THE world’s race ages, non-communicable diseases continue to arise in magnitude and medical costs increase during an shocking rate, a emanate of formulating a medical end that provides a high peculiarity use for distant reduction cost has never been some-more pressing.
Countries such as India, Malaysia and Costa Rica have already done successful inroads into a estimated $55 billion marketplace of what has been termed “medical tourism’, courtship patients from abroad to their comforts with a guarantee of high peculiarity medical services, outrageous assets on costs of adult to as most as 90 percent and a pleasing sourroundings in that to recuperate.
Now it’s a Caribbean’s turn.
Housing a first-class medical trickery within a Caribbean creates clarity – it’s usually a brief moody divided from some of a largest markets urgently wanting a medical resolution – North America, Latin America and a Caribbean.
Health City Cayman Islands non-stop a initial proviso in early 2014, putting a Cayman Islands on a map as a medical destination, and charity patients a centre of value for cardiac surgery, cardiology, orthopaedics, paediatric endocrinology and pulmonology.
Part of cardiac surgeon, medical colonize and humanitarian Dr Devi Shetty’s Narayana Health organisation formed in India (which oversees 26 hospitals), Health City Cayman Islands has already proven itself to be a medical force to be reckoned with, charity procedures during drastically reduce costs than that of identical centres of medical value within other initial rate institutions in a western hemisphere. Once completed, Health City Cayman Islands will have 2,000 beds, a dedicated medical investigate university, assisted critical centre and be one of a largest medical centres in a world. Narayana Health is assimilated in a initial proviso of a plan by Ascension, a largest private not for distinction health complement in a United States.
A studious will usually transport for a purpose of undergoing a medical procession if a array of criteria are met.
There contingency be demonstrable supervision and private zone investment in a country’s medical infrastructure as good as joining to general accreditation, peculiarity assurance, and clarity of outcomes by a use provider themselves.
The Cayman Islands supervision has been a believer of Health City Cayman Islands from a opening and continues to work alongside a trickery to safeguard that a regulatory sourroundings is welcoming for a purpose.
Health City Cayman Islands is now operative towards a Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation. In sequence to be accredited by a JCI, an general sanatorium contingency accommodate a same set of severe standards set onward in a US by a same body. Health City anticipates receiving accreditation during a initial entertain of 2015.
The value of a location’s tourism product is of peerless significance to safeguard a studious has a protected and pleasing sourroundings in that to lapse to health.
The Cayman Islands has built an enviable repute among a peers as one of a tip locations for sun, sea, silt and fun; catering to tourists from all over a world.
As a result, a tourism product of a Cayman Islands, guided by a open zone Department of Tourism and a private zone Cayman Islands Tourism Association has supposing a island with an impossibly successful and critical mercantile post over a years and an considerable use charity for visitors.
The intensity for cost assets on medical procedures is substantially a motivating cause for any studious to demeanour abroad for treatment.
At Health City Cayman Islands, a peculiarity of use will be a motivator and costs are significantly reduce than allied hospitals in a western hemisphere. Fees are comprehensive with anaesthetist and doctors’ fees not being additional, as is mostly a box overseas, an combined advantage for selecting Health City Cayman Islands.
Dr Shetty and his staff have built a plain repute for peculiarity medical by a perfect volume of surgeries achieved in India, in comparison to other counterparts. With this knowledge comes a postulated repute for clinical excellence. All surgeons during Health City Cayman Islands possess a identical turn of skills and immeasurable experience, all with general training.
In addition, a sister hospitals underneath a Narayana Health organisation in India have successfully adopted best practices and state-of-the-art medical record and Health City Cayman Islands is now implementing a same severe best practices, generally with courtesy to studious feedback, as good as installing a best probable medical record available.
All of that adds adult to a origination of an impossibly sparkling new epoch for a Caribbean, with a Cayman Islands really shortly staid to browbeat a general medical tourism industry.
Shomari Scott is the marketing executive during Health City Cayman Islands and a former executive of a Cayman Islands Department of Tourism.
Note: a opinions voiced in Caribbean Journal Op-Eds are those of a author and do not indispensably simulate a views of a Caribbean Journal.
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