“India is fast emerging as a center of excellence in joint replacement surgery. It is not only patients from smaller cities or rural areas that come to several metro cities to have their knee replacement surgeries performed, but also patients from several international locations ” says Mudit Khanna, orthopedic consultant at the Mumbai-based Wockhardt Hospital.
Gargi Ghosh, a physiotherapist with AktivOrtho a rehabilitation center in Delhi, said that over 100,000 overseas patients visit India every year for high-end knee surgeries and that the Indian government was easing restrictions on citizens of many countries, making it easier for them to travel to India for such surgeries. With every new advancement in the transplant process, ways were being developed to minimize the invasive nature of the procedure, she added.
The Statesman reports that India is expected to have a $2 billion industry serving overseas patients by the end of 2015.
