Tourism
Medical tourism is likely to be used for expensive and more complicated surgeries; however tubal ligation is on the list of available procedures. Women opting for tubal ligation would likely combine their convalesce in/with a vacation-type setting. There are a large number of overseas hospitals whose websites list tubal ligation as one of their qualified surgical procedures. Medical tourism is gaining popularity (especially with higher-cost surgeries) as the overall cost of care in developing countries can provide a combination of high-tech medical care at a cost that allows for more enjoyable recovery in a vacation-type setting. Medical tourism is somewhat controversial, and has come under the scrutiny of some governments the concerns of which include quality of care, follow-up and post-operative care.
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“In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)