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More and more international patients are travelling to India to seek quality health care at a fraction of the cost back home. Health care in India is becoming a growth industry, with state-of-the-art equipment and medical practitioners trained abroad, 'five-star' hospitals now attract a new breed of international traveller - the 'medical tourist'. Long queues of patients from neighbouring Bangladesh, Pakistan, Africa and the Middle East can be seen in many of these hospitals. But now patients are travelling from even further, from the UK, Europe and North America. Experts believe India is poised to become a major health care destination offering quality medical service at low cost. Open-heart surgery in the UK can cost more than $20,000 and double that in the United States. In India, leading hospitals can perform that surgery for less than $5,000. And the costs can also be covered by most major insurance policies...
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