National Tourism Agency and Ministry of Health join forces to promote medical tourism

The National Tourism Agency (NAT) and the Ministry of Health of Belarus are joining forces to promote medical tourism and stimulate, thus, the export of tourist and medical services, the press service of the NAT reported.

- The end result of the joint work should be the creation of a single electronic platform for receiving and processing applications of foreign citizens for the provision of medical services in Belarus on the principle of “one window”. The project is planned with the financial and technical support of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD) and the United Nations Development Program.

The platform will be implemented on the basis of the State Medical Tourism Operator “Clinics of Belarus”.

- During a joint meeting on November 11 in Minsk at the office of the EDB representative office in Belarus, the parties discussed the organizational and technical aspects of the project implementation, determined the mechanism for its launch, expressing their principled readiness to cooperate in solving these tasks, the NAT said. It is planned that the implementation of the project will allow a foreign citizen to quickly and efficiently organize his trip to Belarus to receive turnkey medical services, including the selection of a medical institution, determining a treatment program, preliminary calculation of the cost of medical services, transport support, accommodation and other services.

With the help of the service, guests of Belarus, in addition to medical services, will be able to simultaneously plan their visit with a visit to tourist sites, the National Tourism Agency added.

In 2025, residents of 160 countries applied to Belarusian doctors, the export of medical services for 5 years increased by 1.5 times