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Synopsis India is going to be one of the biggest destination for medical tourism in the 21st Century. With a large pool of trained and skilled doctors and with prices only a fraction of those in the US or EU. Indian healthcare aims to replicate the software sector’s Success. While a heart surgery costs $ 30,000 in the US, it costs barely $ 8,000 in India. A Bone marrow transplant here costs $ 26,000 compares to $ 2,50,000 in the US. The trend that began as a trickle has grown exponentially in the last year. Medical tourism has the potential to inject $1 billion into Indian economy annually and create millions of new jobs. Medical tourism could become 1 $ 2 billion-a-year business in India by 2012. Indian hospitals with specialist doctors have done exceedingly well. With yoga, meditation, ayurveda, allopathy and other systems of medicines already the country’s forte, India offers an inviting hamper of medical services. Hence, medical tourism is destined to be next big area of growth for India. This book aims at providing relevant information and sources on this important subject.