Missing 6-year-old girl sold for $16K to organ traders: Kidnapper
A six-year-old girl who was kidnapped in southwest Colombia last year has been sold to organ...
Tag: medical tourism
Plastic surgery tourism in Colombia: an increasing trend
Tourism figures for Colombia have been on the rise for years. Foreigners come for the beaches and...
Medical tourism brought $215M and 50K patients to Colombia in 2013
Colombia is finally making a mark in global medical tourism, recording a 61% increase in the...
Colombia’s medical tourism declines
Medical and surgical tourism has forever been popular in Colombia, but as statistices indicate a...
Colombia ‘set to become Latin America’s prime health tourism destination’
Colombia has developed into one of the premier destinations for health tourists in Latin America, said the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Tuesday. Minister Sergio Díaz-Granados claimed Colombian doctors treated...
Bogota to construct massive medical tourism center
Bogota will construct a medical tourism center at a cost of $19 million, reported economic paper Portfolio Monday. The construction of the Bosque Beauty Garden Hotel & Medical Center in Bogota aims to boost the...
Cosmetic surgery tourism center to open in Bogota
Plans for an $11.3M cosmetic surgery tourism complex in Bogota were revealed Monday. The El Bosque Beauty Clinic Hotel will offer cosmetic surgery plus five-star accommodation to foreigners visiting the Colombian capital. The...
Cartagena hosts medical tourism seminar
Colombia’s coastal city of Cartagena has been preparing to become a center for health tourism and hosted a “Medical Tourism” seminar Tuesday at Casa del Marques in the city’s Centro. The Medical Tourism...
Police investigate plastic surgery death
Medical authorities in Colombia warn about the dangers of plastic surgery after a woman died of complications caused by buttock implants. The Medellin metropolitan police made the case public on Wednesday after the doctor, who...
