Medtral is a

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based medical travel company that provides private medical care to overseas patients. All surgical procedures undertaken by Medtral are performed surgeons and physicians who have received their training both in New Zealand and either North America or Europe and are performed in internationally accredited hospitals. Each Medtral patient is assigned a ‘lead medical carer’- who co-ordinates all aspects of the patient’s medical care. The process followed by Medtral adheres to the guidelines set out by the

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(AMA) and American College of Surgeons (ACS) for

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Procedures offered

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(including

hip replacement Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant, that is, a hip prosthesis. Hip replacement surgery can be performed as a total replacement or a hemi (half) replacement. Such joint replacement o ...

and knee replacement surgery). *

Cardiac surgery Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to co ...

such as Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) and

valve replacement Valve replacement surgery is the replacement of one or more of the heart valves with either an artificial heart valve or a bioprosthesis (homograft from human tissue or xenograft e.g. from pig). It is an alternative to valve repair. __TOC__ Proce ...

surgery. *General surgery is also available including Gall bladder removal ( Cholecystectomy), liver resection and

renal transplant Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). Kidney transplant is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantati ...

. Bladder and prostate surgery is available including robotic prostatectomies. *Gynecological surgery

History

Medtral was founded by Edward Watson in July 2007 as the international marketing arm of the Mercy and Ascot hospitals (now MercyAscot), a private hospital network in New Zealand.

Accreditations and affiliations

*Accredited by Quality Health New Zealand (QHNZ). QHNZ is similar to JCI (

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, formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)) and is a member of International Society for Quality in Healthcare or ISQUA. *Are a member of the Medical Tourism Association.Medical Tourism Association
Facilitators

Hospitals

*Mercy Hospital. *Ascot Hospital.

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