Not only are tourists discovering this new destination of Panama for their winter vacations, but visitors are also coming for health care and plastic surgery. Medical tourism is booming in Panama with people seeking plastic surgery abroad in this perfect destination. Panama is now offering first rate health care in all fields at bargain prices.
Plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery tourism is a growing billion dollar industry worldwide. In places such as India , Thailand and Turkey, many people are seeking out plastic surgery and other health procedures because of skyrocketing prices and excessive wait times in western countries such as the U.S. , Canada and western Europe. High quality plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and health care are available in certain countries at much cheaper prices than one would pay in these western countries.
Panama is now one of the latest countries to offer medical tourists health care at a fraction of the cost. U.S. trained doctors, state of the art hospitals, equipment and clinics and immense savings in the cost of plastic surgery procedures are now available in Panama with the distinct advantage of being close to the United States.
Canadians have the problem of access to a two tiered health care system and dangerous wait times lasting up to two years, while Americans, at the same time, experience a lack of health care and high healthcare prices which, together result in people searching for healthcare and plastic surgery abroad as an alternative.
Specifically, Hospital Punta Pacifica in Panama City, opened in March of 2006 is affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine International in the U.S. It is the only hospital in the Caribbean and Latin American area that is affiliated with Johns Hopkins.
The demand for medical services, health care and plastic surgery abroad is exploding. Doctors who are educated in the U.S. or at other excellent training schools and facilities in the UK are the doctors which provide the services at the Hospital Punta Pacifica.
Not only is the Hospital Punta Pacifica located in Panama which is close the North America , but you have highly qualified doctors, excellent facilities and a wonderful country in which to recuperate. Wait times are short and with a savings of 40 – 70% on services as compared to North America are driving more and more patients to seek plastic surgery abroad. Hospital Punta Pacifica not only provides cosmetic surgery but also such procedures as orthopedic prostheses, in-vitro fertilization, dentistry and laser eye surgery.
Although medical tourism to Panama numbers have not been tracked, it is believed that in 2006, more than 1000 people sought medical tourism in Panama. The numbers are rising. Pana-Health which is an organization for doctors who specialize in medical tourism to Panama say that medical tourism brought in approximately $5 million last year for cosmetic and plastic surgery procedures.
With prices soaring in North America and Europe, it is no wonder that more and more people are investigating plastic surgery abroad. And who can blame them for seeking plastic surgery abroad with the high prices and long wait times these days?
