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This Week in Medical Tourism: 6–12 August 2026
Vietnam's health ministry has put both sides of its medical travel ledger in one document: an estimated USD 1 to 2 billion coming in each year against USD 2 to 3 billion going out. Nigeria, Bangladesh and India moved on the same arithmetic in the same week, and the market estimates their governments were working from do not agree.
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The Legal and Systemic Causes
This Week in Medical Tourism: 30 July – 5 August 2026
Dermatology has overtaken plastic surgery as the largest category of foreign medical spending in South Korea, at 67.5% against 21.3% in the first half of 2026, reversing the 2024 split. Medical services grew 98% year on year, faster than any other category BC Card reports. Australia, Nigeria and India each published figures on their own patient flows in the same week.
This Week in Medical Tourism: 22–29 July 2026
South Korea treated 2.01 million foreign patients in 2025, up 71.7 per cent on the year, and nearly a third of them came from China. Uzbekistan drew 93.9 per cent of its patients from three neighbours and 119 from the rest of the world combined. Eight days of government announcements were aimed at the country next door, not at long-haul demand.
This Week in Medical Tourism: 14–21 July 2026
This is the Health Tourism News roundup for the week of 14 to 21 July 2026. A Frost and Sullivan analysis put Malaysia's private hospital capacity second in...
Airlines Move To The Centre Of Medical Tourism
This is the Health Tourism News roundup for the week of 7 to 13 July 2026. Nobody opened a hospital this week. Instead, the announcements were about...
Medical Tourism Records Concentrate In Penang And Seoul
This is the Health Tourism News roundup for the week of June 29 to July 7 2026. Malaysia and South Korea both reported record medical tourism figures this...
Nigeria, Iran And Seoul Redraw Medical Tourism
This is the Health Tourism News roundup for the week of 24 to 30 June 2026, and it read less like a sales pitch than a stocktake of leaks. Nigeria wants its...
Health Tourism As Badge, Escape Hatch And Disguise
This Week In Health Tourism 16.06.26 - 23.06.26. Three governments spent the week calling medical tourism a pillar of national economic strategy, while a...
Jordan's Medical Tourism Revenue Reaches $1 Billion in 2025, Patient Numbers Hit 230,000
Jordan generated almost $1 billion from medical tourism in 2025, marking a 4 percent increase year-on-year, with 230,000 foreign patients receiving treatment....
This Week In Health Tourism 08.06.26 - 15.06.26
This is the Health Tourism News roundup for the week of 8 June 2026, and the clearest signal across it is that the contest in medical tourism has moved past...
This Week In Health Tourism 31.05.26 - 07.06.26
This is the Health Tourism News roundup for May 31–June 7, 2026. This week's signals highlight a dual trend: destinations are aggressively pursuing growth in...