Health Care Travel Regulations
With the amazingly rapid growth of medical tourism, many national and international health care centers are promoting health care travel regulations.
These regulations work towards promoting a significant medical regulatory system that aims at providing the fastest health care services, advanced technologies and medical delivery procedures in the world. The US Federation of State Medical Board (FSMB) along with International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities (IAMRA) is working toward these standards. Many countries like India, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines follow their own local regulatory act. But till now there is no international regulation for medical tourism.
a.India: The quality council of India has set up “Standards for the Quality and wellness industry”. This consists of a series of regulations that accredits the hospital providing medical tourism facility. These regulations will guarantee the medical tourist a dependable, quality conscious and service health care professionals. This regulatory act covers the wellness of service regarding
- Technology
- Skilled manpower
- Infrastructure
- Consumer protection
- Procedures and controls
b.Malaysia: The Malaysian Society for Quality health functions in assuring safety, quality and constant improvement in health care travel services. The Malaysian standard covers
- Organization and administration
- Human resource and administration
- Guidelines and processes
- Amenities and tool
- Quality enhancement
- Protection
c.Thailand: The Institute Of Hospital Quality Improvement And Accreditation takes care of the medical facilities providing health care in Thailand. The regulation act consider the following
- Hazard, protection and excellence
- Proficient Management & Ecological Management
- Contamination, prevention and control
- Healthcare record system
- Healthcare system & Healthcare laboratory system
- Radiological system
- Perform with communities
- Patient Care Procedures
d.Philippines: The minimum requirements for accrediting a hospital in Philippines are
- Proper environment, private rooms, telephone, refrigerator, cable TV & 24 hour room services
- Airport transportation
- Air ambulance
- Computerized billing
- Well trained, experienced, competent and polite professionals
This accreditation is valid for only 2 years; the hospital management should renew the validity on or previous to the date of expiry.
