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  Volume: XXII, Issue No. 19 May 16-31, 2013  
     
 
   
 
   
  TOURISM
  Japan promoting medical tourism in Bangladesh
 
 
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Dhaka : Japan, a world leader in medicine and medical technology, has started issuing medical visas easing travel to the country and opening up its top-quality institutions for treatment to Bangladeshis.
The country, renowned for automobiles, precision machines, IT and household electronics, opened its door to access its highly advanced healthcare system to tourists only recently, said Dr Sheikh Aleemuzzaman MD, PhD, Chairman, Emergency Assistance Bangladesh Co Ltd.
Both the company and issuance of medical visa were launched in Bangladesh in April this year commemorating 40 years of Bangladesh-Japan friendly relations.
Dr Aleemuzzaman said EAB serves as a one-stop intermediary between Japanese healthcare system and Bangladesh's patients. It offers counselling before departure, contacts with over 150 designated medical institutions in Japan, coordination of dates for treatment and surgery, support with visa applications of patients and their attendants, accommodation during the stay in Japan, help including airport pickup and drop, interpreters and post-treatment follow-up to make patients' healthcare experience as satisfying as possible.
"Medical care in Japan is renowned for its use of less invasive therapies to minimise stress on the patient's body and its highly advanced Team Medicine approach. There are many treatments that only Japan can provide like particle beam therapy - carbon ion therapy for treatment of cancer and heavy ion therapy for treatment of diseases of different parts of the body."
"A leader is stem cell technology, Japan is famous for regenerative medicine and also offers endoscopic surgery, customised medicine, immunotherapy, gene therapy, oral medicine and dentistry," he said.
EAB's two-night three-day treatment package costs two and a half lakh taka. Airfare and sightseeing tours are not included in the package. Already some industry leaders have availed the package and returned from Japan fully satisfied, he said.
A Monbusho scholar, Dr Aleemuzzaman praised Japan for "providing the scholarship to enable thousands of Bangladeshi students like me to pursue their higher studies in Japan."
The physician, academician and social worker associated with different universities, cultural and social organisations in both the countries, hopes to set up hospitals, educational facilities and training centres in Bangladesh.
The office of Emergency Assistance Bangladesh is located at Masjid Road, Banani and is very near Kakoli road crossing in the city.
   
 
 
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