Thursday, July 28, 2011

Medical Travel Becoming an Industry of National Importance to Costa Rica

Medical Travel has become major business in Costa Rica as shown by the latest Cosmetic Surgery Costa Rica Summit held here in San Jose in May. Among the participants were ourselves naturally, Health check Costa Rica, but also numerous luminaries from all over the world who gave positively to the maturing nature of what remains an exceedingly nascent industry. The Cosmetic Surgery Costa Rica industry has been able to take hold and gain races confidence truly from all of the ground work which has come before related to the Tourism industry and the selection of Costa Rica as a favored retirement destination by such groups as the AARP, and World living Mag. Before the economy went bankrupt worldwide Costa Rica was a boomtown, and unavoidably become one again.

Folk are threatened by the concept of journeying to a foreign country often , and traveling for a medical process is even more daunting. I originally drove to Costa Rica from Boston seven years back and I can remember being quite twitchy the whole journey and even my first year or thereabouts in Costa Rica. I assume this is natural because really the environment is so strange and new and unfortunately North Americans and Canadians have the very unpleasant habit of piling all of the Central American nations together in one ephemeral conclusion that they have mixed through sound bites and bits of hearsay or hardly heard reports into one giant nightmarish soup of Nicaraguan Sandinistas, Arms for Contras, Ollie North, Guatemala gang violence, Honduran disturbance, and Mexican kill squads.

Well let me help to set it straight. Costa Rica is the most peaceful place I've ever seen, if I hear an ambulance I am shocked, I think there may have been a police siren passing by once last year, and every time an aircraft passes overhead I am shocked at how shocked I am . Truthfully if these folk were any more easygoing they would be sleeping. However they are friendly and hospitable and get this folks, they have the second highest average lifespan in the world. They also have a socialised medicine system that looks after everybody, and they have an educated class that aims for excellence particularly in the realm of Medical therapy. Being just a couple of hours from most major American cities coupled with a peaceful stable country and unique natural beauty has afforded Costa Rica the chance to become a country of incredible spirit typically from the explosion of investment and traveller dollars.

Anyone considering using Medical Travel for Cosmetic surgery Costa rica should look up the statistics and take heart. A country with the second longest lifespan in the world must clearly be doing something right. Also if you weren't aware Costa Rica gave up its army over 60 years back and guess where almost all of that money flows now. Thats right, Medical care and education.

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