One of the hottest topics in infertility medicine is the topic of medical tourism. People from countries all over the nation are choosing to leave their home countries and to travel to places where fertility treatment is more widely available and / or less expensive. A study of people undergoing fertility treatments in the UK reveals the shocking fact that three out of every four of them would consider medical tourism for their treatment.
There are a variety of factors which are causing people in the UK to consider going out of the country to get their infertility treatment completed. The two most compelling factors are the extremely high cost of infertility treatment in the UK as compared to elsewhere and the very long waiting lists that are required before treatment can be begun.
Only one out of four people said that they would not go out of the country to get their infertility treatment. Those people cited the major concern as being unsure about the conditions of the medical facilities in other countries. If they could be guaranteed that the standards of those countries were the same as those in the UK, they would likely leave the UK to get fertility treatments.
Question of the Day: What should be done to reduce the need for medical tourism among infertility treatment patients in the UK?
