South Korea Hopes To Remove Hospital Legal Hurdles To Draw More Medical Tourism Patients
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
The government is striving to eradicate regulations banning hospitals from opening and operating their own medical hotels where foreign patients and their families can stay during treatment.
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