MAURITIUS: A HI-TECH MEDICAL HUB
The Mauritius Healthcare Sector has been transformed into an integrated model underpinned by modern medical facilities, high-value activities and highly qualified personnel. The sector is now shifting gears towards the export of its services and is positioning itself as a medical tourism platform for Africa.
In 2014, more than 15,000 foreign patients travelled to Mauritius for both inpatient and outpatient procedures. Currently, the Indian Ocean islands remain the main market followed by Europe, Eastern and Southern Africa and the Middle East.
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Opportunities exist to set up super-speciality centres of excellence – especially for diabetes and oncology, medical laboratories and hi-tech imaging & diagnostic centers, plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic surgery clinics, dental clinics and laboratories, and convalescence centers.
HEALTHCARE SECTOR AT A GLANCE
- GDP contribution: 4.6% (est. 2015)
- No. of players: 28 in 2014 ( public & private hospitals & clinics)
- Total employment: 7414 in 2014 (doctors, dentists, pharmacists, qualified nurses and midwives)
- Foreign Patients: more than 15,000 in 2014
