The health tourism targets will achieve revenues of $ 6.000 million in 2012.

2.2% of travelers entering the country do for health treatments.

El turismo de salud quiere ser líder en la categoría de bienestar. The health tourism wants to be a leader in the category of welfare.

  The health tourism market moved U.S. $ 25,000 million in 2008.  According to the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Luis Guillermo Plata, the industry will achieve revenue targets by $ 6,000 million in 2012.  The strategy is based on the strengthening of human resources regulations, strengthening of industry and infrastructure development. 

“In Colombia, said the health tourism is still in its infancy, but the growth potential is enormous.  Currently, 2.2% of travelers entering the country do so motivated by health issues. Many of them come in search of welfare services.  It should be added that the new preventive procedures, including checkups executives increasingly earn more participation, “the minister said.

Consequently, and to achieve added value in this sector, the Government believes that Colombia must close the loopholes that make it very different from the great players today, especially in regard to human resource, law, strengthening the industry and infrastructure development.

Regarding human resources, the initiative is that it must increase the number of professionals in certain areas of health, improve levels of bilingualism in innovation and capacity building, research and development.
 

The initiative also includes the creation of partnerships between education and productive sectors to align academic programs with market needs.  Regarding standards, the plan gives priority to implement mechanisms that ensure the quality of medical services offered to foreigners, and encourage the creation of mechanisms for attracting investment.  With regard to infrastructure, the country must increase its accommodation capacity and hospitable. In this regard, some have already begun work IPSS matching wings exclusive care of patients residing outside the country. Also, some employers in the tourism sector have provided important developments focused on the provision of welfare services.

In addition, to promote the development of infrastructure and related welfare as well as the generation of unified records management and medical records, among others.  To capture value, it is anticipated that each sector will assume its role in the strategy raised. For example, it is proposed that the health sector take the lead in the categories of aesthetic medicine, preventive and curative.
It is also necessary to build a supply of health services based on highly complex procedures, which provides high standards of quality and patient safety, trained personnel, infrastructure and world-class hospital.  In this last segment of the health, the initiative poses help in the design and development of certain products to users to ensure a quiet stay in the country.

The tourism sector, as business strategy, you must be a leader in the category of welfare. Furthermore, it should be a portfolio of world-class services, which provides constant innovation to offer cutting-edge procedures.

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Packages Combined Procedures

Medical Trip is the best choice to make your trip to Colombia a journey of pleasure and economy to economic resources through their journey you can receive the benefits of our service plans for any of our services or to combine our excellent service packages for the following services:

• Plastic Surgery Body.
• Facial Plastic Surgery.
• Bariatric Surgery.
• Dentistry.
• Ophthalmology.
• Hair Implant.
• Dermatology

Our packages include insurance for surgical complications. Visit our website www.themedicaltrip.com

MEDICAL TRIP services can be canceled through different modalities such as:

• Drawing through direct account Davivienda
• Credit cards such as VISA, Master Card, Diners Club, American Express (Payment System non-attendance)
• Payment by Pay Pal.
• International Giro.

For all from the comfort of your place of residence may make payments and so we organize all the medical-surgical route to take once reaching out to our country.

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MEDICAL TRIP services can be canceled through different modalities such as:

• Drawing through direct account Davivienda
• Credit cards such as VISA, Master Card, American Express (Payment System non-attendance)
• Payment by Pay Pal

All that from the comfort of their residence can make payments and so we organize all the medical-surgical route to carry out a time to reach our country.

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• Breast augmentation + Liposculture
• Rhinoplasty + Breast augmentation
• Lower body lift + Liposculpture

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Surgery Plastic to Colombia

Plastic surgery in Colombia. Continuing with the presentation of our guide for the medical trip to Colombia, we present the third step of the guide for the medical trip. 

3. INITIAL TRADING

Once the initial assessment by the relevant specialist physician agrees to the procedure and through the photos and reviews received, establishing an initial contribution by the area of Patient Care MEDICAL TRIP, which is not definitive but it is for an estimated . This initial contribution may suffer some change according to each particular case once the patient is in our city and assist with the assessment or evaluation by the medical specialist.

This listing includes everything required by each particular patient as the case may be. 

  Poll by specialist doctors depending on the procedure (Plastic Surgery, Bariatric Surgery, Ophthalmologist, Vascular, implantologic hair, dentist)
 Testing Laboratory – according to pre-surgical imaging and medical criteria
 Poll by proceeding according to schedule
 Interconsultation by internist, psychiatrist and dietitian to cases of Bariatric Surgery; orthodontist, implants and endodontics including for cases of dentistry
 fees medical specialists (surgeon, anesthesiologist)
 fees surgery room or operating room and anesthesia
 intra inputs and medicines.
 silicone gel implants endorsed by FDA in the cases required
 belts, mentonera or support as required by procedure
 Hospitalization for outpatient surgeries, not according to medical opinions
 insurance complications from the procedure
 Controls post-surgical (4)
 massages as post-surgical procedure and medical opinions.
 

As additional depending on their needs

  quote:
  Airfare
  Accommodation in hotel, apartment hotel occupancy in single or master’s degree or specialized home for visitors pre-and post-surgical transfer to and from the airport
  Service Assistant
  Assistant Nursing for the first two days post-surgery
  Shipments to each of the appointments of valuation, surgery and post-surgical controls
  Tour day or night by the city, with an option to purchase, tour tourist sites in and outside the city 
  Day Spa in Subachoque (province of Bogota 45 min).

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2. REQUEST FOR PHOTOS AND LABORATORY TESTS

According to the procedure required, the physician or patient potential traveler should send some pictures to follow special conditions emailed by the area of Quality MEDICAL TRIP, along with clinical and laboratory tests for the initial assessment by the relevant specialist . These costs are borne by the traveler’s doctor, as it did not make an integral part of the package of the procedure. Management Science MEDICAL TRIP reserves the right to request additional medical information to determine if the traveler is medical candidate for the procedure requested.

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1. APPLICATION PROCEDURE

The passenger potential patient or doctor should enter the web MEDICAL TRIP (www.themedicaltrip.com) to link trading online – click here “and fill out the form in its entirety to request the procedure. Likewise, the medical traveler can make the request via phone and answer queries made by the interlocutor MEDICAL TRIP, which correspond to them which appear on the form and answers must be delivered in full and truthful manner. The area of Quality Assurance MEDICAL TRIP receives the request and drift as the case with the corresponding specialist.
If within three (3) days or 72 hours after the request has not received any response from any adviser MEDICAL TRIP, please make the request again completed the form, making the comment in the space below the Form “I have no answer has come in recent days and I made a request”

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