What is The Status Of Caribbean Medical Tourism?
Edward Stephenson
30+ Years of Transforming Healthcare: Leading the Way in Partnership, Collaboration, and Business Growth Across the Caribbean and North America!
Five years ago the International Medical Travel Journal, (IMTJ) published an article where several Caribbean nations announced plans to jump into the lucrative medical tourism market in an effort to create new economic opportunities by creating a niche market out of their well-branded tourism product. Some countries (Jamaica, St. Kitts and Trinidad & Tobago) hired consultants to do research and in the case of Guyana, St. Kitts and St. Vincent partnerships were developed with hospital development companies to create the necessary facility infrastructure. However, very little information has been heard since about the status of these projects with the exception of the fertility clinic in Barbados which has received significant mainstream publicity. Read more
Ed Stephenson is an experienced healthcare consultant specializing in Caribbean healthcare issues, medical tourism, cancer treatment and managed care. Learn more.
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9yI agree with Irving and Ilan, however there are some diamonds in the rough. You just have to know where to go and who to "trust". Oops there's that word "trust" again....lol
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9yOh well, they hired the wrong consultants. Probably those who don't deliver the bad news, collect their fees and leave the islands.
Well yes, what has happened? Not much, I gather, and the projects which have goen forward, why don't we hear about their successes?
Good Article Ed, keep up the good work....