50 years ago, Tijuana opted for health tourism and was not wrong. Today, the border city has become the main recipient of health tourists in the country. And the figures guarantee it. Last year he received 1.7 million patients and their companions, most of them from the United States (California and Arizona), Canada and states such as Jalisco, Sinaloa, Sonora, Nuevo León and Mexico City, which represented an economic spill of 600 million dollars (mdd).
The reason for its success is directly related to cost, as it reduces drastically compared to the price that Americans pay for their health in the United States. In this case, it is reduced by almost 81 to 55% depending on the service required.
Currently, 45% of the health tourism that arrives in Baja California comes mainly from San Diego, the second most populous city in California.
Baja California has 2,838 offices, of which 1,214 are dental and 1,231 are doctors; 366 private hospitals, two psychiatric hospitals and 25 other specialties, 6,285 pharmacies and 1,293 laboratories.
Among the most important hospitals are: Advanced Health Medical Center, Angeles Hospital, Hospital del Prado Medical Center, Oasis of Hope and Simnsa, the latter was the first Mexican Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) to obtain a license as a health plan. health care services by the state of California. Its network extends through the border cities of Tijuana, Tecate and Mexicali.
It is due to the need for quality medical transport that our service has been extended throughout the most prestigious clinics and hotels in the city, to provide medical centers and doctors with a particular service to their patients with a bilingual staff and trained for your care.