Health Minister: We will Narrow Export of Patients from Georgia

“Exports of patients from Georgia will not be carried out anymore”, Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze noted when introducing the 10-year medical tourism development plan in Georgia.

To this end, the Health Ministry has submitted several amendments in order to make medical tourism one of the key directions in Georgia.

“We have proposed several fundamental changes to the Parliament that will take our sector to a substantially higher level. I believe that the Parliament will fully engage in this process and support this process because this one of the ways to transform Georgia into a country of medical tourists and prevent the export of patients from Georgia.

Based on the substantially advanced health sector, we will work on promoting medical tourism in Georgia and we believe this direction has huge prospects in our region”, the Health Minister said.