Grand Cayman medical tourism project will be the blueprint

Posted on January 23, 2012

Grand Cayman medical tourism project will be the blueprint, Dr Shetty tells the BBC

The man behind the ambitious medical tourism project planned for Grand Cayman, Dr Devi Shetty, told the BBC that this will be the blueprint for other projects around the world and will prove his point about the possibility of cheaper medical care. As experts in land investments in the Cayman Islands, Crown World (http://www.crownworld.com/) has been championing this project since details on it were first revealed.

Speaking to Stephen Sackur in a programme which aired on the BBC HardTalk programme on Monday 9 January, heart surgeon and health care reformist Dr Shetty explained that the 2,000-bed Healthcare City planned for Grand Cayman will demonstrate to the United States and the rest of the world that affordable health care is “doable”. He explained that although the Healthcare City is not a non-profit organisation, it would prove the point that quality medical care need not cost the high levels demanded in the United States, something in which Dr Shetty passionately believes.

Dr Shetty said, “We want to start the first project there [in Cayman] to convince everyone that it is doable and, hopefully, God willing, everything works out fine, then roll out a larger hospital chain in Africa.....We would like to show the most influential country in the world, that is America, that just outside their waters, you can build a hospital and offer healthcare at less than half of what they pay in the US.” Dr Shetty believes that there is something “seriously wrong” with the way healthcare is provided in the UK, US and Asia. 

The BBC interview comes after last week’s announcement that Dr Shetty and his team also plan to open a medical school in the Cayman Islands to help counter the current shortage of qualified medical staff around the world, a figure which stands at around 3-4 million. First phase construction of the 2,000-bed hospital will start in August of this year.

To listen to the BBC interview in full, click here. To find out how you can profit from land investments in the Cayman Islands go to the Crown World website at http://www.crownworld.com/.