50-Year Old Knee Injury Relieved Through Healthbase at an Indian Hospital

Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 23, 2007

Healthbase.com, a Boston-based medical tourism facilitator, has successfully assisted William Nilsson, an uninsured American patient seek knee replacement surgery in India. Healthbase connects uninsured, underinsured and even insured patients to leading medical facilities overseas, arranging first-class treatment for them at major internationally-accredited hospitals in India, Thailand, Singapore and Mexico, and expanding to Costa Rica, Panama, Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Turkey and Malaysia.

William Nilsson of Southern Utah had not paid much attention to the knee injuries he sustained during football games in high-school some 50 years ago. But when he tore his knee ligaments last year while playing golf, he, like 45 million uninsured Americans, didn’t know how he could pay for a knee replacement surgery. He saw the light of hope with Healthbase that helped him find low cost but high quality treatment in India, ensuring that he could play golf again.

Owing to the rising costs of healthcare in the United States, patients these days are traveling abroad for surgeries in various categories like orthopedics, cardiac, cosmetic, and dental among others. The cost of surgical care at overseas hospitals is typically a fraction of that found in the U.S., with equal or superior outcomes. William’s knee replacement surgery, for example, which would have cost him over $ 30,000 in the US, cost him only $ 6,500 in India. Even with travel expenses taken into account, the comprehensive treatment packages that patients can get measure in savings of thousands of dollars.

The quality of care delivered abroad is at par with that in America. Overseas hospitals that are JCI/JCAHO accredited maintain best practice standards of care. William quotes, “The doctors who treated me were very professional. They would visit our room many times a day. The quality of care I received on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being the least, I would rate them as a 10.”

After his successful surgery and recovery in India, William Nilsson returned home to the US in mid-April. He recalls his wonderful experience with Healthbase throughout the process of his treatment. In his own words, “I was very impressed with all the help I received and the clarity with which my questions were answered [by Healthbase].”

Healthbase.com makes treatment abroad accessible to more patients than ever before.

About Healthbase Online Inc.

Healthbase is a one-stop source for global medical choices, connecting patients to leading hospitals around the world, through a secure, easy to use, information-rich web portal. Healthbase offers over 200 procedures and helps patients seek top quality healthcare in various categories such as bariatric, orthopedic, cardiac, spinal, dental, cosmetic, laparoscopic, etc. Healthbase’s partner hospitals are located in India, Singapore, Thailand and Mexico, and are expanding to Costa Rica, Panama, Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Malaysia and Turkey. To ensure that patients receive the best care possible, Healthbase works only with hospitals that have international accreditations like JCI, JCAHO and ISO. To learn more, call 1-888-691-4584, email info.hb @ healthbase.com or visit http://www.healthbase.com.

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Knee Replacement in India: Medical Tourism Corporation Helps Atlanta Grandmother Save U.S. $80,000

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) August 20, 2008

Bridget Nkechi Onah returned from a very effective &amp affordable knee replacement surgery in India. The trip was arranged and facilitated by Plano, TX based, Medical Tourism Corporation.

Onah was utilized to a complete and active life, till the discomfort in her knees started to slow her down some years ago. By profession a lecturer in the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, she holds masters degrees in Rural and Medical Sociology.

She pulled on by sheer mental strength, but the arthritic knee discomfort soon got to a point exactly where she could not walk any longer, let alone pursuing her passions of operating on women’s issues and HIV/AIDS education.

It was then that she decided that she need to concentrate on discovering a resolution for her problem. Therefore Onah, author and contributor to several skilled journals and publications, took a sabbatical from her teaching career at the University of Nigeria and went more than to her daughter’s place in Atlanta, GA, U.S.

Nonetheless there was a issue with receiving the knee replacement done in the U.S.: the inhibitive expense. Onah is not insured and there was no way she could afford to pay $ 47,000 for one particular knee replacement and $ 94,000 for bilateral knee replacement.

Hence, she turned to medical tourism. “I looked up ‘knee replacement in India’ on the World wide web and that is when I came across Medical Tourism Corporation. At that stage, I had nonetheless not produced up my mind even though. But the fast responses and incredibly skilled communication from Medical Tourism Corporation helped me talk about the matter with my family members and arrive at a collective selection,” she said.

Medical Tourism Corporation was with Onah by way of each and every stage of the trip: from preparing for the trip, obtaining the visas, arranging the surgery, and secure return house. “All inquiries that I had had been answered. And even just before I went there, I got to see the resume of the medical doctor who would treat me, Dr Sanjay Pai, and was quite impressed. He had 18 years of experience in his field. That was really reassuring,” Onah says.

The detailed info she received about the top quality of medical tourism in India in common and knee replacement in particular combined with the reality that she could get the process carried out for an unbelievably low $ 14,000 for both knees helped her make up her mind. It also helped that Medical Tourism Corporation got her a discount of $ 500 on her air tickets compared to what she was in a position to shop on her very own.

The Corporation arranged for her to get the bilateral knee replacement completed at Wockhardt Hospital in India, a globe class healthcare facility, affiliated to Harvard Medical in the U.S. “It was really fulfilling to get the treatment in that hospital. The top quality of medical care was incredibly higher. The nurses showed excellent training and large ethical values,” she stated. “The medical group was basically superb. The anesthetists had been great, as well. And Dr Pai was an astounding group leader.” English is extensively spoken at the hospital &amp she was also really pleased that the dietitians offered meals based on the patients decision.

Onah got back to the U.S. about two weeks ago and is now recuperating. Soon, she hopes, she will be able to walk once again and get back to doing the issues she loves. “I employed to go for extended walks with my husband and buddies and haven’t been able to do that for some time now. So, I appear forward to all that,” she stated. “I am very impressed with the highly expert way in which Medical Tourism Corporation helped me. All through the time I was in India, people from the Corporation kept calling me from the U.S., asking how I was carrying out and if there was something I wanted. I think that was extremely, really fulfilling.”

About Medical Tourism Corporation:

Medical Tourism Corporation’s objective is to have satisfied and satisfied medical tourists. The firm helps folks get medical treatment accomplished at cost-effective, globe-class health care facilities. Apart from facilitating surgeries like knee replacement, it also assists in facilitating other medical procedures like hip replacement in India, hip resurfacing in India, and cervical disk replacement and much more. In addition to India, the firm also facilitates Medical Tourism in Mexico, Costa Rica, Belgium and Thailand. Some of the other hospitals component of the Medical Tourism Corporation network involves Apollo Hospital in India, Hospital Angeles in Mexico and, Clinica Biblica Hospital in Costa Rica. The facilitation service requires the comprehensive medical tourism experience, from trip arranging, destination assistance and the return.

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