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Beijing, September 5 (Global Times): Patients from third-and fourth-tier cities of China seek medical treatment in India because that country provides high-quality services in its private hospitals.

Hua Li (pseudonym) looked out of the window at the airport, her eyes full of hope. It was the 40-year-old’s first trip abroad, and her destination was an unlikely one for a Chinese person who had never been abroad before: New Delhi.

14 years ago, Hua was infected with hepatitis C by a blood transfusion during surgery. Before the trip, she was already in the middle stage of liver fibrosis, which might eventually lead to cirrhosis and even liver cancer. Treatment in China was costly and ineffective too.

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Then she found companies that are willing to help Chinese patients like her seek treatment in India at a reasonable cost.

In New Delhi, Hua was taken to one of India’s best liver doctors in a private hospital who prescribed medication not yet available in China. Within four weeks, Hua’s symptoms had vanished, and hepatitis could not be detected during a regular health check.

“The professionalism and cleanliness of India’s private hospital is impressive. It’s more like a hotel, unlike Chinese hospitals which are so crowded,” Hua told Liaowang Institute, a Chinese think tank.

Hua is one of a growing number of not-so-wealthy sick Chinese traveling to India for medical treatment, attracted by its relatively low medical costs, wide range of medication to choose from and its internationally-proven medical expertise.

The growing demand has led to an increasing number of companies in China providing medical tourism services in India, targeting Chinese patients from third- and fourth-tier cities.

Pharmacy of the World

There are nearly 10 million hepatitis C patients in China, making it the nation with the most HCV infections. But the safest and most effective medication so far for hepatitis C, direct antiviral agents (DDAs), didn’t enter China until this April due to the country’s long and complicated drug approval process.

DDAs have been proven to be at least 90 percent effective in curing the disease.

“Compared with the size of the hepatitis C-carrying population, many of those infected aren’t aware that they have it, and the diagnosis and recovery rate have been continuously low. But actually, hepatitis C is completely curable,” Wei Lai, head of the Hepatology Institute at Peking University, told the Southern Weekly.

While China sets strict barriers and hefty prices on imported drugs, India has long been known as the “pharmacy of the developing world,” largely because the Indian government has granted compulsory licenses for expensive drugs so Indian manufacturers can produce these drugs without fear of being prosecuted under patent law.

According to the WHO, compulsory licensing is when a government allows someone to reproduce a patented product or process without the consent of the patent owner.

Glivec, a leukemia drug produced by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, for example, costs 23,500 yuan ($3,783) each month in China. Its Indian generic version Veenat, a drug produced by India’s Natco Pharma which claims to have the same active ingredient and effects as Glivec, costs as little as just 200 yuan each month.

These generic versions are illegal in China because they are not officially approved. According to the country’s drug administration laws, such drugs are regarded as counterfeit.

In the past, a lot of Chinese patients unable to afford the prices of imported drugs in China have tried to access cheaper Indian generic drugs through purchasing agents.

But as China has cracked down on the smuggling of these drugs in recent years, that channel has become more and more dangerous. This is what prompted patients like Hua to visit India herself.

Crowded Hong Kong hospital

Healthy hospitality

Apart from cheaper and more advanced drugs, India is also known for the quality of services in its private hospitals.

India’s healthcare system is marked by inequity. While those living under the poverty line have to endure limited access to medical care, a low doctor-patient ratio and poor sanitation in public hospitals, the middle and upper classes can enjoy quality treatment in private hospitals with doctors who have studied in Europe or the US.

Some of its best private hospitals are famous worldwide. Fortis Hospital Bannerghatta, a hospital in Bangalore, has been ranked as one of the top 10 hospitals in the world for medical tourists for five consecutive years by the Medical Travel Quality Alliance, an international organization that aims to improve quality in medical tourism.

According to the Medical Tourism Market Report 2015, India was “one of the lowest cost and highest quality of all medical tourism destinations; it offers wide variety of procedures at about one-tenth the cost of similar procedures in the United States.”

The Indian government has also been trying to promote the market by liberalizing rules to make it “very easy” for foreign tourists to get a visa for medical treatment in India, the Times of India reported.

The number of arrivals in the country on medical visas was 66,254 in 2014, which grew to 122,121 in 2015 and 177,972 in 2016.

For Chinese patients, the cost of a 3-day medical trip to India ranges from 30,000 to 50,000 yuan. One medical management company told the Global Times last year that they have so far organized over 20 group tours to India for patients with liver diseases, and the cost for each person is 40,000 to 45,000 yuan.

That includes plane tickets, accommodation, medical checks, medication and a 12,000 yuan service fee.

While some Chinese patients choose to go to India with the help of agents, some choose to visit India on their own, which cuts costs further. They include Mr Liu, a man from North China’s Hebei Province who was diagnosed with hepatitis C this February.

“Before I went to India, I did health checks in a big Chinese hospital. But the equipment in India’s hospital seems to be more advanced, and they detected that I had cirrhosis in addition to hepatitis C,” he told Liaowang Institute.

Some Indian pharmaceutical groups are even establishing Chinese branches to help facilitate Chinese patients’ visits to India.

Still biased

Tapping the growing market, Nithin Devarajulu Palavalli, an Indian citizen who studied nano-engineering in Taiwan and Spain, founded a company providing Indian medical tourism services with his classmates after graduating from China’s Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in the mainland.

Palavalli is targeting patients in China’s third and fourth tier cities. He told the Liaowang Institute that the majority of hepatitis C patients in China are in such cities, most of whom have never been abroad before.

However, since India is still generally believed by most Chinese to be poorer than China, many Chinese patients still hold biases against India’s medical capability.

But actually, Palavalli said over 40 percent of generic drugs sold on the US market are manufactured in India. Many top-level doctors in the US, too, are Indians.

Downside

However, tragedies like the one in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh in which 70 children died within five days at a hospital due to a lack of oxygen canisters in the intensive care ward, can spoil the  image. Even though this happened in a public hospital in a rural area, tragedies like this can shake the Chinese public’s confidence in India’s medical system.

The lack of protection of patients is another key concern for foreign patients who are traveling to India, according to an article published by the Nikkei Asian Review. If accidents occur during a surgery, there are no laws to protect the patients’ interest.

Despite these concerns, Naresh Trehan, chairman of the Medanta Medicity hospital, told the Nikkei Asian Review that he expects India’s status as a medical tourism hub will continue to grow.

“In the long run, these growth pangs are likely to give way to a steady and consistent flow of patients,” he said.

(The featured image at the top shows a patient being wheeled into an operation theater in India) 

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