The definition of medical tourism
Is the transmission of tourists from his country to another country, motivated by the desire to achieve the healing of certain diseases or to satisfy the needs of his body from the natural elements and lacks presence in his native environment, and finds in the natural environment of another country.
There are some chronic diseases such as autoimmune diseases and rheumatism, and some respiratory problems and heart may need to climatic and environmental conditions until they are certain uncontrollable climatic conditions and these are available in many climate zones in Egypt.
Tourism accounts for therapeutic ratio ranging from 5% to 10% of global tourism, which means the ability to increase tourism numbers expected to Egypt within the limits of 300-500 thousand tourists annually generate an estimated income of five billion pounds at least.
It covers medical tourism is widely extends from specialized medical institutions to the traditional tourist resorts that provide various means of recreation programs including sports activities under medical supervision and that medical tourism is divided into: -
Treatment (specialized treatment of acute and chronic).
Surgery.
Hospital after temporary improvement of chronic disease cases.
And healthy recreation for periods of convalescence.
Control some physical problems such as obesity.
Systems and remedial and preventive package of chronic diseases (such as arthritis).
Programs, diagnostic and preventive.
Programs, food and natural medicine.
Healing myself and my mind.
Economic importance of tourism in
Back the economic importance of tourism in that tourist therapeutic if expressed as such differs from tourists normal length of his stay in the place of treatment and this period ranging between two weeks and four weeks and up to five or six weeks, and often doctors recommend these tourists comfortable for ten days or more before returning to work and this time the additional spend most ordinary tourists in Egypt.
Elements of the development of therapeutic tourism in Egypt
Natural ingredients
Site Egypt's geographical location between the latitudes 22 - 31.36 N means that the Tropic of Cancer passes the southern tip of the country and this site earns Egypt a considerable amount of solar radiation, which is lacking in many Northern states, especially the X-vertical in the period of the summer solstice when the sun is perpendicular to the Tropic of Cancer .
Dry weather is on the moderate pace and there is one little difference between the last part of the territory of Egypt.
Egypt is rich in the eyes of mineral water and sulfur regular and hot,'s more than 1356 different kind across the country.
Egypt Bassahalin up benches on the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, giving them variety in their environment
Elements of historical and archaeological
Rich in Egypt many of the archaeological sites Pharaonic, Romanian, Coptic and Islamic, which tells the story of the greatness of Egypt Mralasor, and there are the effects of the stone ages, in different places in Egypt, and this effects the great element to attract important to tourists in general and for the sites proposed for medical tourism, the presence of effects is set aside intellectually and spiritually significant improve the psychological condition of patients.
Infrastructure
Egypt has now in the era of President Mubarak, the possibilities of service and treatment specialist in all types of medicine, as well as rehabilitation centers and physical therapy at the level of high Fendkie and human capacity, equipment, and high-tech devices cost billions of pounds primarily to serve the citizens of Egypt and curative medical care is quality, in addition to government institutions there are centers medical and private hospitals also with the same capacity.
These institutions have the potential treatment of expatriates called out of Egypt, and Egypt was still the center to request medical or surgical treatment for groups of brothers the Arabs and some Africans and also some tourists from foreign countries.
This gives dimension to Egypt and manpower Egyptian background of excellent support reputation of civilization's great and people of Egypt and without doubt will be reflected on other areas, including of course the economic field, especially since many of these countries and their peoples have dealt with the doctor in the Egyptian envoy was known level and abilities.
Medical tourism places in Egypt
Divided into medical tourism places in Egypt:
Provinces rely mainly on natural faces and places of service delivery such as:
Aswan where there is a (hospital of Abu Simbel - Regional Blood Bank - Teaching Hospital)
South Sinai Governorate where there is (Sharm el-Sheikh International Hospital - and many of the powers tourism).
Luxor, a city rich in shrines and tourist atmosphere fun in the winter as there are on-the-art hospital in the world, namely the Luxor International Hospital.
Places where the mineral water and air, which helps in natural treatment:
Red Sea:
Where there is a (Hurghada General Hospital - There are 2 as a private hospital actually works to contract with third parties - as there is a global center for the treatment of rheumatic diseases of the joints and skin diseases and psoriasis).
City of Safaga:
The town of Safaga in the Red Sea is rich in many natural ingredients that have a central role in the treatment of many incurable diseases and are components of the natural black sand distinctive and sea water with high salinity and sunlight over the Albnevsijeh, medicinal plants, wild, which is rare to meet in any other spot in the World 0
Mzhlh gave results in the treatment of many diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis - Psoriasis - systemic lupus erythematosus and other diseases and Safaga is a successful model of ecological recovery.
New Valley Governorate:
Where the (extra eyes and oases - the eyes of oasis Dakhla - oases of Siwa and eyes - the eyes and Farafra Oasis and there are all central hospital provides a decent level of service)
South Sinai:
Has the (eyes of the Sinai Peninsula, the eyes of Moses - as there is the monastery of St. Catherine)
Helwan beacon of natural medicine:
And is characterized by very dry, and humidity not exceeding 58% in addition to the eyes of several metal and sulfur are unmatched in the world in terms of the degree of purity and therapeutic interest.
Has been established by the Center for Medicine sulfurated natural and treatment of pain and rheumatic diseases
And water treatment dates back to Helwan in 1899, then renewed their bathrooms in 1955.
He founded the Centre for Rheumatology Helwan sulfur and natural medicine, the Center includes a group of doctors are specialized in rheumatic diseases and natural medicine.
Characterized as centers of Helwan combine environmental treatment and drug therapy and natural.
All of these areas can be used to attract medical tourism, which can be put to the foreign investors as they need to experience in the field of medical tourism can be used to these experiences through the Ministry, in conjunction with the Ministry of Tourism to call homes of global experience to visit these places on the nature and the work of imagining what could be implemented in these areas is दिफ्फेरेंत
