MEDICAL TOURISM STAKEHOLDER TAKE
FACILITATORS UPBEAT ON PROSPECTS Our Correspondent
T
he facilitators are the backbone of any industry and the medical value travel (MVT) sector is no exception. With Covid-19 playing mayhem across the world for the past two years, along with the medical value travel operators, the facilitators too were at the receiving end. Even as the sector limps back to normalcy, the facilitators are optimistic that order will be restored in the sector by the end of the year. “The MVT Sector had a huge setback because of Covid-19 and the resultant flight restrictions. India also lost to some other key medical tourism destinations which did not close their borders for treatment. However, now our sector is bouncing back sharply and all pending patients have started traveling. Hospitals have started getting aggressive in their marketing and so has travel started for medical tourism companies,” said Mihir Vora, Founder & CEO, Magnus Medi, an MVT facilitator based at Mumbai.
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