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Cuban Health Tourism
Cuban Health Care System
COSMETIC SURGERY - DENTAL IMPLANTS -
HEALTH CHECK-UP's -
MEDICAL PROGRAMS
Cuban Health Tourism Industry takes advantage from the new medical trends: Patients’ going to a different country for either critical or optional medical procedures – also known as Health Tourism – that is rapidly becoming a global, multibillion-dollar industry. The reasons patients travel for treatments vary. Countries that actively promote health tourism include Cuba, Costa Rica, Hungary, India, Israel, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia and Thailand.
Cuban Health Care Services and Cuban tourism options recently arose interest in Guatemala, during the 3rd Cuba-Central America Meeting. The event allowed Cuban specialists from diverse fields of medicine to assess 294 patients interested in getting treatment in the Caribbean island, as part of the Health Tourism Modality. The patients were examined by oncologists, ophthalmologists, geriatrists, psychiatrists, internists, pediatricians and anesthesiologists.
Cuban Health Tourism is Big Business for Cuba
Special clinics and hospital wings are set aside for paying foreign clients. In 1996, according to a US government summary, more than 7,000 “Health Tourists” paid Cuba $25 million for medical services. Biotechnology is also a leading hard-currency earner for Cuba, and the country exported $125 million dollars worth of medical supplies in 1995.
Cuba has made a conscious effort to attract foreign patients from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Russia to specialized hospitals, which provide high-quality care at competitive prices. It has also distinguished itself by centering on the treatment of certain skin diseases which are not curable in other countries, and on the development of new procedures and drugs, such as for pigmentary retinopathy or vitiligo.
Cuban Health Care: COSMETIC SURGERY
In recent years cosmetic surgery has become one of the most sought after procedures in Havana hospitals serving dollar-paying foreigners. At the Cira Garcia clinic, which is better stocked and equipped than most hospitals serving Cuban patients, many procedures cost about half of what they do in the United States. Despite a ban on American travelers to Cuba, U.S. patients -- many of them Cuban Americans -- rank third after Bahamians and Venezuelans seeking cosmetic surgery, said Dr. Jesus Burgue, one of the clinic's surgeons.
CLINICA CENTRAL CIRA GARCIA
(CIRA CARCIA CLINIC)
CALLE 20 NR 4101 ESQUINA AVENIDA 41
PLAYA HAVANA CUBA
TEL ++53 7 204.2811
FAX ++53 7 204.2640
email : faculta@cirag.cu
http://www.cirag.cu/ingles/clinica.htm/
PACKAGE DEALS IN CUBAN HEALTH TOURISM
The Cuban state owned travel and tourist organisation
CUBANACAN TOURISM & HEALTH suggests packages to combine
healthcare and wellbeing programs on the island.
For more details go to the
CUBANACAN TOURISM AND HEALTH website
Hospitals in Havana
Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico
Calixto Garcia
Avenida de Universidad y 27 de Noviembre
Havana Vedado
Tel. 838 2171 Direction
838 2210 Administration
838 2176 Admission
Hospital Hermanos Amejeiras
San Lázaro #701
Havana Centro
Tel 876 1210 Information
876 1654 Admission
Hospital Clinico Manuel Fajardo
Nva. de Hospitales y Zapata
Havana Vedado
Tel 838 2448 Direction
835 2539 Administration
Hospital Julio Trigo Lopez
Czda de Bejucal
Havana Naranjo
Tel 44 7261 Admission
643 8282 Information
Hospital Clinico Quirurgio Joaquin Albarran
Avenida de la Independencia
Ptes Grandes Havana
Tel 881 1164 Admission
881 0808 Direction - Administration
881 4656 Psychiatry
Contact adresses
General Division
Calle 43 No. 1418 esquina a Calle 18, Miramar, Playa. Ciudad Habana.
Phone: (53 7) 204 4811 al 13 / 204 7219. Fax: (53 7) 204 1330 et 203 1630.
email: presidente@sermed.cha.cyt.cu
Marketing Division
Calle 18 No. 4304 e/ 43 y 47, Miramar, Playa. Havana.
Phone: (53 7) 204 8488/ 204 2023/ 204 2658.
email: dircomercial@sermed.cha.cyt.cu
International Medical Services Division
Calle 18 No. 4304 e/ 43 y 47, Miramar, Playa. Havana.
Phone: (53 7) 204 0114/ 204 2658.
email: dirsmi@sermed.cha.cyt.cu
Tourist Medical Services Division
Calle 43 No. 1418 on the corner of Calle 18, Miramar, Playa. Havana.
Phone: (53 7) 204 4811 to 13/ 204 1781.
email: directorsmt@sermed.cha.cyt.cu
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