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Indian VIPs’ fascination for lavish abroad treatments
It’s a common perception that foreign countries have better technology or efficient doctors or care; have you heard of brain drain? You would find many of best practices abroad have Indian origin doctors.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who left for treatment to a US hospital from Mumbai, is reportedly suffering from an advanced stage of pancreatic cancer. Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital and Goa Medical College and Hospital — are both the health facilities in which he was frequently admitted and discharged. There were many speculations, but finally it was quite an advanced stage of cancer and he went abroad in hope of buying some time.