The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan became destination for medical tourism with prominent reputation in the Arab world and international levels for more than 300k international patients a year with more than 500k facilities from several different countries (such as USA, Canada, UK, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Kenya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Yemen, Comoros, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya) is due to the following considerations:
- The quality of medical services provided and the legislation governing the medical sector.
- Competitive medical services prices compared to the various countries of the world.
- Many hospitals got the national and international reliability and that is an evidence of the quality of medical services provided.
- Jordanian medical sector with all its components gained a global reputation for providing the best distinguishing therapeutic services because of the presence of qualified and trained medical staff, and nursing and technical staff committed to providing all medical services for patients with high professionalism.
- The presence of a large and distinctive number of doctors, surgeons, specialists and nurses qualified with the highest degree of qualification and distinguished education from universities and international hospitals, holding precise specialties, and the proficiency of languages, in addition to the Arabic language: including English Russian Spanish, Italian, Greek, French, and this is due the diversity of medical schools they graduated from.
- Rich and diverse cultural and historical cultural, medical and infrastructure for Jordan constitutes an integrated system to establish successful therapeutic tourism industry in addition to hospitality of the Jordanian people that every visitor to Jordan feel.
- The existence of hospital resorts in Jordan and the Dead Sea and Ma’in
- Jordan is considered an oasis of security and stability enjoyed by all who enter it safe, secure, and sits geographically with stable mild climate and diverse area and warm water, and natural beauty, as well as evidence of cultural and historical monuments which abound.
The services provided to patients and reviewers include most specializations such as heart disease, nerve, orthopedics, internal medicine, eye diseases, liver and kidney transplantation, and planting and restoration of the joints and the treatment of infertility, IVF, so Jordan occupied first among Arab and fifth globally in the field of medical tourism, so that the private health sector does a great efforts to keep this achievement.
Jordan has won the best destination for medical tourism in 2014 where he won this award on 03/07/2014 through the distribution of the global medical tourism awards ceremony organized by the International Travel therapeutic newspaper based in London, and this contest was organized on the sidelines of the International Medical Travel Conference, which was held in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) This conference is one of the most specialized events in the field of medical tourism in the world by international arbitrators consisting of governors of many countries, UK, US, Malaysia, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Thailand and the Philippines, the evidence is clear that Jordan provides service-levels of advanced medical equivalent to those found in USA, UK and other developed countries.
The standards that have been adopted for this award are: the level of quality of services provided in the comfort including good reception at airports and border crossings and the competitive level of appropriate and reasonable cost compared with other countries, as well as obtaining the international and private reliability for Jordanian hospitals and ease entry of patients to the kingdom and provide remedies for patients and ease the patient for the service in terms of the speed of the provision of medical service without the need to wait for long periods, in addition to the availability of advanced medical devices.
Jordan is the first destination for medical treatment in the Middle East and North Africa region, through the continued development of medical tourism over the past 20 years due to the significant investment in the health care sector and the availability the Jordanian medical and nursing staff of world-class competitor.
The number of Jordanian private hospitals is 63 hospital, and that has a major role in attracting Arab and foreign patients as private sector hospitals treat about 95 percent of these patients.