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attract six million medical tourists per year, IRNA reported.Safari made the remarks in a meeting attended by top officials from the tourism
and health ministries and a host of other travel insiders, hospital administrators, and tour operators.Attaining this target requires close
cooperation between responsible organizations and institutions, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is at the service of tourism development
in its various dimensions with all its strength, Safari said.Deputy tourism minister Ali-Asghar Shalbafian said the most important problem
in the field of medical tourism was a disagreement between the relevant institutions and the lack of a single trustee for this tourism
procedures for the duties of each of the relevant institutions, and gradually some other problems in the field of medical tourism will also
staff, low treatment costs compared to other countries, high-quality medical services and well-equipped specialized hospitals are among
Factors such as increased care needs over longer lifespans, rising healthcare costs, and constant pressures on some insurance industries are
reasons behind why some opt to travel abroad.Regarding price competitiveness, Iran currently ranks first in the world, but the country has
not been very successful in attracting potential travelers as other competitors like Singapore and Turkey
People from the Persian Gulf littoral states, Iraq and Syria as well as Iranian expatriates residing in Canada and Germany constituted the
majority of medical travelers to the Islamic Republic, who received plastic, cosmetics, open-heart, and orthopedic surgeries amongst other
treatments over the past couple of years.AFM
