The Colombian government is promoting the Andean nation as a medical tourism destination, where visitors can receive high quality-low cost treatments such as cosmetic surgery and dentistry.The government estimates that twenty foreigners travel to Colombia every month for plastic surgery procedures such as liposuction, rhinoplasty and breast augmentation.Approximately 2.2 per cent of visitors to Colombia in 2008 came to receive medical treatments. The government estimates that the majority of these patients were Colombians residing in other countries.

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