Taiwan Taps China For Lucrative Medical Tourism Market
It is a stark contrast to those in mainland China, which are plagued with old facilities, crowded conditions and generally poor service.
Patients there wait all day for rushed consultations with doctors.
Taiwan's government hopes its medical services will impress the growing number of Chinese tourists visiting the island.
Its goal: to grab a share of the multi-billion dollar global medical tourism market - especially through China.
You'll see a growing trend of wealthy mainland Chinese heading cross-border for higher quality care—to the US, Taiwan and Singapore”
Regional competition
The high-tech manufacturing island entered this field in 2007, much later than Asian competitors.
Last year it saw about 85,000 medical tourists, far fewer than Thailand and Singapore, which attracted more than 1m and 665,000 medical tourists, respectively.
The Taiwanese industry's $73m (£45m) in annual revenue is also much lower than that of its competitors.
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