Ramdev is govt's new medical tourism advisor

December 21, 2015 12:06

The Centre has found a new role for yoga televangelist Baba Ramdev and his aide Acharya Balkrishan: to help frame a policy to attract more foreign patients to India. Ramdev and Balkrishan have been drafted into the fledgling National Medical and Wellness Tourism Board, headed by tourism minister Mahesh Sharma, along with 20 others who include government officials, travel operators and senior doctors from leading hospitals.The board has been tasked to devise strategies to increase the number of foreign medical tourists at the country's hospitals and wellness clinics, and issue guidelines to regulate the services these establishments offer. Read more

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