If you are looking for one of the best health travel destination, look to Brazil!
Brazil offers you worldwide recognized hospitals, highly skilled medical and nursing staffs and the latest available in technology at a much lower cost. Through technology, dedication and competence, in a country where good health and beauty govern scenery and people, Brazil has gained international fame of excellence in many different branches of modern medicine. Brazil has a proven medical reference in cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, dental care, hair implant, eye care and surgeries, dermatologic procedures, sport medicine, orthopedic treatments, weight control and many others.


A quality health treatment with much lower prices assures another attraction to those who visit Brazil: the country offers countless possibilities of making this experience the vacation of your dreams. Due to Brazil's large and diversified territory, Brazil provides uncountable options of leisure. That means you and your family can enjoy an extraordinary stay in Brazil while taking care of your health.

Brazil's capital Brasilia because of its high quality life style and high purchasing power became a center of reference in health and wellness. In Brasilia they count on with excellent clinics in many different areas of medicine that have the most stringent procedures of biosafety and investment in technology and research. Its architecture is unique transforming it into the "historic patrimony of humanity". Nestled in the central plateau of Brazil this amazing city, Brasília, is surrounded by places with waterfalls and tree areas. You can have many options for ecotourism and adventure tourism. 

Brazil entered in the International Health Tourism route. The new business modality, which have as objective bring patients from other countries to medical treatments in Brazil, stimulates renowned hospitals as Samaritan [Hospital Samaritano], Syrian Lebanese [Sírio-Libanês] and Heart Hospital [Hospital do Coração], in São Paulo, to invest in new technologies and processes to became a market reference that, in 2005, attracted more than 220 millions of patients all around the world.

“This is the business of the moment and Brazil has all the attributes to consolidate itself as a model that can attract patients, mainly from South and North Americas”, says Mauro Stormovsky. commercial manager of Health Brazil Consortium, composed by Syrian Lebanese, Heart, Brasilia, Windmill and Samaritan hospitals, engineering enterprises and research in society with the Promotion of Exportation and Investments Agency (Apex – Brazil).

Established in June 2006, the Consortium wants to focus in actions of disclosure of medical treatments in Brazil to individual patients, health plans operators, governments and specialized international agencies. “To have an idea, if in the USA a cardiac surgery costs US$ 100 mil dollars, here, it costs R$ 35 thousand, that’s lower than the price of India which is a great player in this market. Lower price treatments is the focus of international health planes”, explains Mauro. According to the manager, plastic surgery, cardiology, oncology and pediatrics are the specialties with more potential to attract foreign patients.

Investments

At the Syrian Lebanese [Sírio-Libanês], one of the hospitals that belongs to the Consortium, the investments in the technological area must come close to R$ 9 millions, in 2007. “Since last year, we decided to make a revolution in the hospital technological area. The ANS exigencies contribute to the changes that are happening, but we’re also focused on international health tourism”, says Antonio Carlos Onofre de Lira, director of the Information Technology area of Syrian Lebanese [Sírio Libanês].

With the investments, which are concentrated in a data center construction with 14 servers, wireless net implementation in the whole building and new technologies adopted as visit system and remote consultation (by a camera computer connection), the Hospital wants to attract a more foreign patients for treatments.

“Brazil starts to enter in a market that India, Malaysia and Singapore are very well consolidated. We want to intensify this interchange developing the technology, bringing new equipments and adopting international administration practices”, says Lira.

According to the director, countries of the Middle East are in the Hospital route because of the cultural proximity. Besides them, South America and United States are other potential clients.

In Samaritan [Samaritano], the investments in technology are also growing. To this year, the expenses with hardware, software and telecommunications foreknowledge must become to R$ 7 millions, excluding the amount for the medical area equipments. Procedures that guarantee the electronical image treatment, as x-rays and magnectical resonance, also are in the priorities list of the Hospital.