Foreigners visiting India can avail treatment without obtaining medical visa: Govt

In case of indoor medical treatment of less than 180 days or up to the stay stipulation period, if any, stipulated on primary visa of a foreigner or the duration of his or her primary visa, whichever is earlier, a foreigner is permitted to take such indoor medical treatment subject to certain conditions, it said.

Treatment of diseases that require a organ transplant shall, however, be permitted only on a medical visa.

The central government had already revised the procedure last year, exempting foreigners from getting their primary visa converted into medical visa for obtaining indoor treatment of up to 180 days for seeking admission in a hospital wing owing to illness.

"Now, the government of India has further liberalized the medical visa regime and permitted foreigners to get the indoor treatment on their primary (original) visa even for pre-existing diseases (except in cases of organ transplant), which the foreigner may have been suffering from even before his or her entry into India," it said.

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