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World Service,23 Jan 2001,13 mins

Health Tourism

Health Talk

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The reasons UK patients are going overseas for procedures such as cataract surgery. Also on the programme, a tour of one of Thailand's luxury hospitals and an outbreak of polio on Haiti. This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 2001.

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