Check your Health

Dubai based health tourism player ‘Oceanic HealthPlus’ has hit the Indian market. With several health care packages, OHP has been extending innovative preventive healthcare tourism packages. In an interview given to The Kerala Traveller, the General Manager of Oceanic HealthPlus Prasad Manjali explains their projects and activities.

What is Oceanic Health Plus?

Oceanic Health Plus is a Medical Tourism and Preventive Health Care Management Company based in Dubai with offices in UK, Malaysia, Thailand and in India.

What is Oceanic Health Plus Card?

The card holders can avail a Comprehensive Health Check-up and other value added services and discounts in India and UAE.

What are the value added services that the card can provide?

OHP Card Holders offers discounts and special offers on Hotels, Resorts, Ayurvedic resorts & centers, Restaurants, etc.

Which are the hospitals where this card be used for an executive health check up or for treatment?

Presently medical tourists can avail health care facilities at 24 hospitals. They are: Wockhardt Super Specialty Hospitals, Bangalore, Wockhardt Heart Hospital, Mulund, Mumbai, Kamineni Wockhardt Hospital, Hyderabad, Wockhardt Hospital & Kidney Institute, Kolkotta, Apollo Hospitals International Ltd, Ahemedabad, Sagar Apollo Hospital, Bangalore, Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Maduari, Apollo Victor Hospitals, Goa, Phyathai 2 Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Kerala Institute of Medical sciences, Thiruvanan-thapuram, Malabar Institute of Medical sciences Ltd., Calicut, LakeShore Hospitals & Research centre Ltd, Cochin, Dhanalakshmi Hospital Ltd, Kannur, Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital, Pune, Dr.L H Hirnandanai Hospital, Powai, Mumbai, Malar Hospitals Ltd., Chennai,.K G Hospital and post Graduate Medical Institute, Coimbatore, Seahorse Hospitals Ltd., Thruchirapalli, Asian Hospital and Medical Center, Philippines, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Philippines, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre Ltd, South Delhi, Vikram Hospital and Heart Care, Mysore, Muthoot Medical Centre, Pathanamthitta, Kerala.

Will the card holder have any privilege or Priority for a Health Check up or Treatment?

Yes. All the partner hospitals would recognize the Oceanic Health plus Card Holder as Elite and would provide High Priority to them for the Check-up and other services provided by the Hospital.

How can the patient know if the hospitals and clinics that are referred are accredited?

Tremendous amounts of efforts have been made to research and validate the authenticity and credibility of hospitals and clinics in various countries. A database has been compiled by Oceanic Health Plus to assist in matching the client’s needs to the necessary service and provide the right connection. Prior to signing any contractual agreements, we ensure that all the appropriate credentials of the hospitals, clinics, and healthcare providers are reviewed and recorded.

What kind of healthcare do medical tourists obtain?

Myriad options exist for medical tourists - from purely elective procedures such as rhinoplasty, liposuction, breast augmentation, orthodontics, and LASIK, to more serious and life-saving procedures such as joint replacements, bone marrow transplants, and cardiac bypass surgery - medical tourists can now obtain essentially any type of medical or surgical procedure abroad in a safe and effective manner for a fraction of the cost that they would face in their home countries.

What are the cost savings for medical tourists?

The cost savings are enormous. For example, for the same price as a week long vacation for two in Hawai that includes airfare and boarding & lodging, a couple can travel to the natural and lush beauty of Kerala on India’s southeast coast to include airfare, boarding & lodging, personal tour guide/concierge, and LASIK corrective surgery for two. The average cost of private heart surgery in the United States is $50,000. That same operation with comparable rates of success and complications costs only $10,000 in the finest and most state-of-the-art hospital in Delhi or Mumbai. A bone marrow transplant that costs $250,000 in the U.S. costs only $25,000 in India. Large price disparities such as these exist across the board for numerous medical and surgical procedures. And because of favorable currency exchange rates for medical tourists, the costs associated with accommodations, food, shopping, and sight-seeing are similarly very favorable.••