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Patients Beyond Borders: India Edition Announced

Healthy Travel Media and Wockhardt Hospitals partner to provide guidebook for leading medical travel destination

Las Vegas/Global Healthcare Summit—4 May 2008: Healthy Travel Media announces the Patients Beyond Borders India Edition, to be published in English for international distribution in July 2008.  Written and produced in collaboration with Wockhardt Hospitals, the 220-page guidebook will offer an in-depth overview of India’s top international hospitals and clinics, selected health travel agents, nearby recovery and guest accommodations, and area travel information.    

Long-known as a leading international medical travel destination, India now welcomes more than 180,000 patients annually, offering 30-90% discounts on a wide array of medical procedures, including orthopedic, cardiac, cosmetic, dental, optical and more.   India boasts nine JCI-accredited hospitals and clinics, with more than 20 facilities throughout the sub-continent now serving international patients.

The Patients Beyond Borders India Edition was underwritten in part by the renowned Wockhardt Hospitals, one of India’s leading health institutes, with two main hospitals in Mumbai and Bangalore.  “We are pleased to contribute to this landmark title, which will serve to reinforce India’s preeminence as a global healthcare center,” says Vishal Bali, CEO of Wockhardt Hospitals. “India is a rising star of healthcare excellence, with some of the world’s best research, education, doctors, surgeon and medical facilities.” 

Penned by Josef Woodman, author of the bestselling book Patients Beyond Borders, the India Edition provides readers information on planning and budgeting a medical journey to India, how to choose the best hospitals and physicians, medical travel do’s and don’ts, and more.  The book provides in-depth information on dozens of fully-accredited Indian hospitals, including contact information, treatments offered, Centres of Excellence, subspecialties, and superspecialties.  A brief chapter covers tourism and travel information to the leading medical travel destination cities. 

“India has so much to offer patients as a high-quality, affordable medical travel destination,” says author Josef Woodman.  “With the India Edition, readers everywhere will for the first time have access to all required information in a single guidebook.” 

About Healthy Travel Media 

Healthy Travel Media, an independent imprint based in Chapel Hill, NC, publishes books and other information on medical, health and wellness travel.  Books are available at retail and online outlets worldwide. The Patients Beyond Borders India Edition is third in the Patients Beyond Borders series of in-country editions of the same name. Other titles include its landmark World Edition (February 2007), the Patients Beyond Borders Singapore Second Edition (August 2008) and the Patients Beyond Borders Taiwan Edition (July 2008).  For more information, please visit: http://www.patientsbeyondborders.com.

About Wockhardt Hospitals

Established in 1990 in Bangalore and headquartered in Mumbai, Wockhardt Hospitals is known for its specialty centers, particularly in heart disease and surgery. Its Mumbai center has four super-specialty clinics, including the Heart Institute, where dozens of landmark operations have been performed. Other specialties include the Orthopedic Clinic, Wockhardt Eye Hospital, Wockhardt Brain and Spine Hospital, and the new Specialty Epilepsy Clinic. Wockhardt is building and refining major specialty “clusters” in Calcutta (Wockhardt Hospital and Kidney Institute) and Bangalore (for cardiac, orthopedics, and neuroscience).  Wockhardt/Mumbai was the first hospital in southern India to receive JCI accreditation.

Complimentary review copies are available to qualified members of the media, upon request:  Judy Orchard, jorchard@healthtraveler.net. 

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