Health Tourism in Iran a new destination for health tourism in the middle east

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Nowadays, the trend of health tourism no longer favors developed countries exclusively, but also many developing countries are entering medical tourism and are fiercely challenging the status quo, some of them to great success.

One of the regions that hosts many of these potential medical tourism powerhouses is the Middle East. While usually the name of the region is entwined with regional conflict and political instability, there are several stable and powerful states battling for medical tourism supremacy in the region. These countries are usually characterized by the lower value of their currency relative to the currency used by incoming tourists.

Before the current global pandemic hit the world, Iran was fast on the rise to become a serious opponent for Turkey as the top medical destination in the middle East. Iran has its own rapidly developing medical sector with several powerful selling points and trademark treatments, however much of the country’s potential is curbed by internal obstacles and negative press in the media.

Iran has extremely competent organ transplant centers, with some of the very best experts in field like kidney and liver transplant being Iranian. The country also offers world class cosmetic procedures, with the country having the largest number of nose surgeries performed out of any country in the world.

Iran also is a forerunner in infertility treatment and the city of Yazd is considered one of the most innovative cities for the treatment of infertility in the world.

Iran offers its own traditional school of medicine as a unique selling point, a school that has been continuously and dynamically evolving for the past two millennia and brings unique, natural and non-invasive treatments in the form of a reliable compendium of alternate medicine.

Iran is also the leading country in stem cell research studies in the world, with a significant number of elite scientists working on these potentially lifesaving and preventive methods, a potential for its future in the medical tourism.

What truly makes Iran a perfect medical tourism destination however, is the unbelievably cheap costs of medical treatments in the country. Due to economic sanctions, the Iranian Rial, is one of the cheapest currencies in the world, and as such the prices in Rial, translate into incredibly cheap treatments for citizens of other countries.

Iran is a safe and secure country, with an excellent sense of hospitality in its people and offers a perfect journey for medical tourists in all the economic, cultural and medical senses. It is one of the top medical destinations in the Middle East.