Oct 31 2011
Medical Travel to Costa Rica a Maturing Industry
Medical Travel has become major business in Costa Rica as shown by the most recent Cosmetic Surgery Costa Rica Summit held here in San Jose in May. Among the participants were ourselves of course, Health check Costa Rica, but also a bunch of luminaries from all parts of the world who contributed certainly to the maturing nature of what remains a very nascent industry. The Cosmetic Surgery Costa Rica industry has managed to take hold and gain peoples confidence really 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 International living Mag. Before the economy went bust worldwide Costa Rica was a boomtown, and unavoidably become one again.
Folk are threatened by the idea of journeying to a foreign land regularly and traveling for a medical process is even more daunting. I originally drove to Costa Rica from Boston 7 years back and I can remember being quite twitchy the whole journey and even my first year or so in Costa Rica. I guess this is natural because really the environment is so strange and new and unfortunately USA citizens and Canadians have the nasty practice of lumping all the Central American nations together in one ephemeral judgement that they have mixed through sound bites and snippets of tittle-tattle or hardly heard reports into one giant terrifying 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 have ever seen, if I hear an ambulance I’m shocked, I believe there might have been a police siren passing by once last year, and each time an aircraft passes overhead I’m surprised at how shocked I am . Honestly if these folk were any more chilled out they’d be sleeping. However they’re friendly and welcoming and get this people, they have the second highest average lifespan in the world. They also have a socialised medicine system that takes care of everyone, and they have got an educated class that aims for excellence especially in the realm of Medical therapy. Being only a few hours from most major American cities coupled with a peaceful stable country and unparalleled natural beauty has afforded Costa Rica the opportunity to become a country of incredible spirit mainly from the explosion of investment and traveller bucks.
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 manifestly be getting something right. Also in case you weren’t aware Costa Rica gave up its military over sixty years back and guess where most of that money flows now. Thats right, Medicare and education.
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