<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Treatment Abroad - Health and Medical Tourism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Articles]]></description><link>http://www.balticmedtour.com/</link><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright Treatment Abroad - Health and Medical Tourism]]></copyright><generator>Balticmedtour CMS</generator><item><title><![CDATA[ISRAEL: becoming a medical travel destination]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem has launched an international Internet campaign
    
The campaign aims to persuade foreigners to come to Jerusalem for complicated operations on the knee, hip, eye, brain and nervous system - procedures in which its surgeons are world class and which are less expensive than in medical centers abroad.
    
The aim is to increase medical travel to Israel, says Hadassah`s director of marketing Amitai Rotem. "In the past, we used a variety of non-focused campaigns, which resulted in too few foreign patients. The new campaign will significantly increase the number of queries and turn many of them into actual medical treatments at Hadassah.”
    
The on-line campaign will integrate advertising in international search engines in English and Russian. A surfer who looks for a specific kind of surgery can directly reach the Web page with relevant information about Hadassah. A special Web page has been established in these languages, giving Internet users the ability to get in contact directly with them. It has set up an international patient centre and offers patients a door-to-door service.
    
Israeli hospitals - including Hadassah - have centers of excellence that can easily accommodate foreign patients and earn money that can be used to benefit medical services to Israelis.Ira Nissel, founder of IMS Global (www.medicaltourismforyou.com) says that Israel is home to some of the most modern medical centers in the world and the country`s physicians and scientists are known for medical breakthroughs.
    
IMS Global has three divisions. One focuses on fertility, another on children and the third on adults. Patients are coming from all over the world including the US, Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
    
IMS represents Israel’s 18 leading internationally recognized medical centres.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:30:31 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.balticmedtour.com/treatment-abroad/israel-becoming-a-medical-travel-destination/</link><guid>http://www.balticmedtour.com/treatment-abroad/israel-becoming-a-medical-travel-destination/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At The Retirement Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[  Friday, July 13 and Saturday, July 14  
London, Olympia      
        
  Main view of the exhibition        

  Presented    
  Win a "Free Weekend in Vilnius"   
  A chance for an "all inclusive paid" exciting weekend for two lucky winners to explore a wonderful city and visit the professional medical & health services Lithuania has to offer.      
        
  Seminar area        
The Retirement Show successfully took place in London and we were very pleased with the level of visitors (over 5,000), and with our participation in the show.    
The level of interest in our services and Lithuania was very high and over 400 visitors entered into our contest for the “free weekend”. Their inputs will definitely help us meet our objective of establishing direct and personal contact with those interested in health and medical treatment in Lithuania.    
        
  International services manager L. Mituziene before her presentation on the seminar        
We are sincerely pleased to announce the winners of the lucky draw:    
Mrs. P. Skolfield,  
Mrs. M. Wightman,  
Mrs. L. Brown,  
  
and we hope to welcome them in Vilnius soon.    
  
        
      
  Stand of Baltic MedTour         
Baltic MedTour and I personally would like to thank all the visitors for their interest and for the time spend at our stand.  Our only regret is that we didn`t have more time to discuss all the topics with you. Additionally, we would also like to thank all our partners for their generous contribution to the winners of the luck draw contest.    
The photographs, initial visitor and exhibitor comments, a press release and The Retirement Show Movie are posted to the web site, at   http://www.theRetirementShow.com      
  
      
  L. Mituziene and I. Trakimaite, Director of Lithuanian Tourism and Information Centre, announcing the winners of lucky draw        
      
  Ray Cannon  
Managing Director  
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:59:04 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.balticmedtour.com/treatment-abroad/at-the-retirement-show/</link><guid>http://www.balticmedtour.com/treatment-abroad/at-the-retirement-show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Times]]></title><description><![CDATA[    The Times  , Mediaplanet. March 22, 2007   Come and discover Lithuania a world class centre of excellence for high quality medical care and rehabilitation&hellip;  Read more...    ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:13:43 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.balticmedtour.com/treatment-abroad/the-times/</link><guid>http://www.balticmedtour.com/treatment-abroad/the-times/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lloyd`s List]]></title><description><![CDATA[  Lloyd&#39;s List. December 14, 2006&nbsp;  Lithuania     flights take off as patients seek surgery overseas  &nbsp;As UK sufferers bypass local hospitals for a plane trip to quality treatment abroad, insurers are diagnosing a lucrative new sector...   Read more...    ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:12:35 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.balticmedtour.com/treatment-abroad/lloyds-list/</link><guid>http://www.balticmedtour.com/treatment-abroad/lloyds-list/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Retirement Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Baltic Medtour, which has just booked to attend The Retirement Show, is to run a competition at the show with a free weekend health tour holiday as a prize.
    
    The Retirement Show    ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:50:16 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.balticmedtour.com/events/the-retirement-show/</link><guid>http://www.balticmedtour.com/events/the-retirement-show/</guid></item></channel></rss>