Medical Tourism Singapore

Medical Tourism Singapore offers tourists freedom from the diseases and the joy of visiting some of the most beautiful tourist locations in Asia like the Singapore Sea, the ethnic Quarters, the magnificent places of interest, the memorials and the Second World War Sites.

Singapore Medicine" is a multi-agency government initiative that aims to develop Singapore into a leading destination for health care services. In 2005, some 374,000 visitors came to Singapore purely to seek healthcare. Many patients come from neighboring countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, and patient numbers from Indochina, South Asia, the Middle East and Greater China are also growing. Patients from developed countries such as the United States and the UK are beginning to choose Singapore as their medical travel destination for relatively affordable health care services in a clean cosmopolitan city. A number of Singapore hospitals have US-sourced JCI accreditation, while others are looking at hospital accreditation from the UK or Australia.

As a leading healthcare services hub in Asia, the international city of Singapore attracts 200,000 international patients every year. Singapore is a world class, cosmopolitan and culturally vibrant city of grace. It is stable, peaceful and safe. Many international patients place their confidence in Singapore's world class healthcare system, which is at the forefront of medical technology and has safety as its top priority The Singapore Government aims to attract close to a million overseas patients by the year 2012. Singapore known for its reputation at being an extremely clean country aims to compete with neighbouring countries like Thailand and Malaysia to grab a slice out of the medical tourism pie.

Centres of Excellence

The hospitals and specialty centres in Singapore offer specialised treatment in a broad range of areas such as cardiology (heart), ophthalmology (eye) and oncology (cancer). Patients receive quality healthcare, where the most advanced treatments are delivered by the region's leading medical professionals.

These specialty centres and hospitals also carry out R&D, leveraging on the growing biomedical research in Singapore to develop new treatments.

Some top Singapore based hospitals are:

1) Alexandra Hospital
Established in the year 1938, this hospital served as one of the prime hospitals for the British Empire in the Far East and was known as the British Military Hospital. Once the World War II ended and even till the 1970s, Alexandra remained to be one of the most modern and well maintained hospitals. More information..

2) Changi General Hospital
Is one of the largest hospitals in Singapore. Its present facilities at Simei were started in the year 1998. It was formed as a result of an amalgamation of two well known hospitals, the Changi Hospital and the Toa Payoh Hospital. The hospital can therefore trace its roots back to the year 1957, when the Thomson Road Hospital began construction More information..

3) National University Hospital
Is a hospital in Singapore that is located next to the medical faculty of the National University of Singapore at Kent Ridge. Besides being a teaching hospital for the university, it also acts as a research centre. This hospital specialises in Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Ophthalmology among others. More information..

4) National Cancer Centre Singapore
The National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) is a national and regional centre directed at the prevention and treatment of different cancers including those involving the breast, stomach, lung, liver, pancreas, lymphomas and head and neck cancers.

5) eMenders Singapore
eMenders is a group of Singapore-based Physicians and surgeon representing more than 25 different branches of medicine and dentistry

Some top medical tourism providers which facilitate patient treatement and travel are:

http://www.MedicalSingapore.com- MedicalSingapore.com is one of Singapore's top health tourism service provider. MedicalSingapore links the space between patients in UK, Europe, USA, Middle East and the health service providers in Singapore. They arrange for treatment, stay and travel in Singapore.

http://www.SingaporMedicine.com- SingaporMedicine is a multi-agency government initiative targetted at making Singapore's world-class healthcare services easily accessible to international patients.

Singapore is no longer just the leisure or business destination. With a population of 4.5 million, strong workforce of skilled doctors and some best state-of-the-art hospitals Singapore is fast positioning itself as a global medical tourism hub. Approximately 200,000 overseas patients visit Singapore every year and the hospitals are targetting to increase the numbers manifold, to serving one million foreign patients annually by 2012 and generate USD 3 billion in revenue.

"Singapore Medicine" is a multi-agency government initiative that aims to develop Singapore into a leading destination for health care services. In 2005, some 374,000 visitors came to Singapore purely to seek healthcare.Many patients come from neighboring countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, and patient numbers from Indochina, South Asia, the Middle East and Greater China are also growing. Patients from developed countries such as the United States and the UK are beginning to choose Singapore as their medical travel destination for relatively affordable health care services in a clean cosmopolitan city. A number of Singapore hospitals have US-sourced JCI accreditation, while others are looking at hospital accreditation from the UK.