Top 5 destinations for China’s medical tourists
More and more wealthy Chinese opting to go abroad for better treatment
Fed up with mainland China’s crowded and noisy hospitals, more and more wealthy Chinese are opting to go abroad in search of better medical services. The top factors influencing their choice of destination are cost, distance from China and the availability of specialist treatment. Here, SCMP reporters sift through these criteria and identify the top five destinations for China’s medical tourists.
The United States of America
The world’s most powerful nation has the best medical resources in the globe, with hospitals and clinics top-ranked for almost all diseases. That’s why more Chinese patients visit American hospitals than those in any other country, despite having to fly at least 10 hours to get there and facing some of the highest medical costs in the world when they do arrive. Mainland agencies say they usually recommend American hospitals to patients according to the rank filed by the magazine US News & World Report.
