Medical tourism has taken key importance in terms of international healthcare and it has helped patients largely in terms of finding and connecting with medical assistance and doctors from other countries. It is one of the fastest emerging industries which has reduced the expense of medical care, as compared and many other countries. Hence many countries in Asia and the Middle East are working a lot to develop their medical tourism industry.

In Asia, Singapore, India, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia and many others have great facilities to cater to medical tourists. Singapore has been very successful over time in enhancing the growth of their healthcare and medical tourism facilities. Due to experienced and well-trained staff in hospitals, they have attracted lots of healthcare tourists. They have trained their staff with English language capabilities and this has attracted a large number of medical tourists from many countries of the world.

In Singapore, Opioid Detox Medical Tourism reached an estimated amount of $940 million and according to estimates this amount is going to be huge in the coming years. There are an average of 8000 patients every year out of which almost around 90 per cent of the patients are medical tourists from other countries. There are facilities of Liver Diseases & Transplantation, surgeries, heart transplantation and many other expensive treatments in Singapore.

LASIK surgery is one of the most common surgeries these days and it has attracted lots of medical tourists towards Singapore. LASIK stands for Laser Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis and now it is a very popular surgical method to remove problems regarding blurry vision. LASIK surgery is used for the treatment of near-sightedness, far-sightedness and astigmatism. Due to its affordable Lasik surgery costs, many medical tourists are attracted towards Singapore and are getting benefiting from their surgical, medical and other health treatments. Now Singapore has a large number of hospitals and healthcare centers with JCI accreditation. Due to its magnificent medical facilities and ever-increasing number of medical tourists, World Health Organization (WHO) has ranked Singapore as the 6th Best Healthcare System in the world.