Over the last few years, Spanish healthcare system has improved and become a popular destination for medical tourism. Spain at 7th position for best health care system in Europe. Spanish are among the world's healthiest people. The average life expectancy is the highest in the EU: 80 for women and 74 for men. Spain has the lowest occurrences of heart diseases in the world.
Patients, especially EU citizens, travel to Spain for its high quality and the same time low cost medical treatments, fast and effective treatment without the wait, availability of a holiday while receiving treatment.
Popular treatments in Spain among the foreign patients:
Spain can offer more than 750 hospitals, 1.21 million beds and 450,000 doctors and nurses offering 2.4 million surgeries per year. Major hospitals feature the latest high-tech equipment and the required staff to operate them. Most of Spain's clinics and hospitals feature a specialty wing offering special privileges for the medical tourist. Some of these include proving patients the choice to select the doctors to treat them.
Doctors in Spain are thoroughly trained and study to remain at the level of the best in the world. Medical schooling and practical training in Spain is equivalent to that in any European country. It is usually common for Spanish doctors to have practice in other countries of EU and sometimes in U.S. Surgeons in Spain are usually highly qualified and are trained for 6 or 7 years before they obtain their degrees in general medicine.
The Spanish health industry has an excellent reputation of the essential post operative care after any kind of surgery. This has led to millions of tourists flocking to Spain for medical treatment last year.
