Medical tourism in Jordan remains unaffected from the ongoing global economic crisis as it provides high quality services at competitive cost.
According to industry observers, the ongoing global meltdown has failed to impact Jordan’s medical tourism, a major sector of the Jordan national economy, as reported by The Jordan Times.
As per the Private Hospitals Association (PHA), Jordan has surpassed all other Arab nations to make it to the top 10 medical tourism spots of the world designated by the medical tourism specialists of the World Bank. Every year the medical tourism industry generates more than $1 Billion in revenue, with over 200,000 foreign patients coming to the Kingdom for treatment.
High quality, competitively priced Jordanian healthcare services have made the nation a popular destination for foreign patients seeking advanced treatments that are inaccessible or very expensive in their home countries.
Moreover, Jordan has a number of Joint Commission International Accredited (CIA) Hospitals. Jordan’s healthcare accreditation system, HCAC (Jordan Healthcare Accreditation Council), is very important and recognized by ISQua (the International Society for Quality in Health Care).
The American Medical Association has also acknowledged that the ISQua certificated Jordan’s accreditation systems provide state of the art healthcare services. This will boost Jordan’s prospects of consolidating its position as one of the topnotch providers of healthcare services to foreign patients.
Furthermore, Jordan is already famous for its top class healthcare services within the the Middle East. Moreover, the best Jordanian hospitals have American board certified doctors on their panels.
In the meantime, there is still a tremendous demand for licensing new private hospitals. The Health Ministry has informed that the Jordanian government is presently scrutinizing applications to construct three hospitals, one in Maan and two more in Amman. One hospital in Amman is slated to be a large complex, devoted to various specialties, whereas another will be a cosmetic and plastic surgery specialty hospital.
As per a Research Analyst at RNCOS, “The integrated qualitative services offered by the Jordan hospitals are responsible for drawing patients from both within the country and from across the seas. But in order to improve the business environment of the country and to provide a fillip to innovation and efficiency to the medical tourism services, the first and foremost aim should be to develop the public-private collaboration as an effective instrument of economic development.”
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