Medical tourism is a term that has risen from the rapid growth of an industry where people from all around the world are travelling to other countries to obtain medical and surgical care while at the same time touring, vacationing, and fully experiencing the attractions of the countries that they are visiting. The practice of medical tourism is actually thousands of years old. In ancient Greece, pilgrims and patients came from all over the Mediterranean to the sanctuary of the healing god, Asklepios, at Epidaurus. In the 21st century, low cost air travel has allowed growth of medical tourism to even far off places.

Chandigarh Administration along with leading hospitals of the city and the vicinity has decided to promote Chandigarh as a destination for Medical Tourism. Facilities which are available in various hospitals are being compiled and being regularly updated on this website.

Chandigarh has immense potential for Medical Tourism as the excellent environment and large green spaces give ample opportunities to patients to recover from their illnesses. State-of-the-art Medical facilities are available in various Public and Private hospitals.

Thousands of health tourists are coming to Chandigarh to avail the Medicare of expert doctors from all over India and other parts of the globe.

Three major factors of growth of medical tourism in India are Cost, Quality and Availability.  The major benefit offered by India to overseas patients is significant savings compared to their domestic private healthcare.For example cost of a Facelift in USA is about $15,000 while same surgery costs $ 3000 in India. A knee joint replacement costs approx 12000 pounds in UK while it is done for about 3500 Pounds in India. 

With the growth of corporate hospitals in India, there is easy access to state of the art facilities and technology, round-the-clock personal service and large pool of doctors, trained nurses and paramedical staff. Indian doctors are well known all over the world for their excellent training and expertise as a major percentage of US and UK doctors is from India. In fact every 5th doctor in the world is an Indian; hence patients from abroad don’t hesitate to get treatment from Indian doctors.   

Easy availability is also a crucial factor. By an estimate, there are more than 850,000 patients on waiting lists in UK. Compared to waiting lists of up to 2 years for elective surgery in overstretched government health plans in Canada and UK, there is no waiting time in India and there is easy and friendly access to Indian doctors. Availability of large pool of English speaking staff gives India an edge over other Asian competitors like Thailand and Malaysia.

Chandigarh has rare distinction in India of having two hospitals with world renowned JCI accreditation in its vicinity, Fortis Hospital, Mohali and Grewal eye institute at Chandigarh.

Govt. of India has announced a new category of `Medical Visa’ for the convenience of `Health Tourist’. Indian Missions in various countries may be contacted for details, and procedure for obtaining medical visas’.

Modern / ALLOPATHIC Hospitals, clinics and doctors

Complementary / Alternative Medicine

        i) AYURVEDIC Hospitals, clinics and doctors