Colombia is emerging as a power in health tourism

About 3,700 patients who left $ 6 million wereattended in 2010.
Surgical procedures, such as breast augmentation, youcan get from 4 to 20 million pesos in the clinicalaesthetic of the country.
Likewise, a full tooth whitening can cost from 1 millionpesos, and surgery to correct nearsightedness ispriced starting at 2 million pesos.
U.S. patients, which are major customers 'healthtourism' in the country, they are looking for in thistype of surgery 'safety, quality and service' and, aboveall, that they are at least 50 percent cheaper than inthe U.S., a study with more than 3,000 respondents inthat country.
In Medellin is planned medium-term creating aspecific protocol for international patients.
It is estimated that each patient spent 1.651 dollars oncosmetic surgeries performed in the country during2010.
According to the data disclosed by the cluster'Medicine and Dentistry services', the main healthservices most requested are: outpatient services,dentistry, cosmetic surgery, hospitalization,orthopedics and cardiovascular surgery.