Safer Medial Group (Costa Rica) signed an alliance to improve patient care with Jackson Memorial Hospital in the USA.
The Safer Medical Group is comprised of Costa Rican doctors with different specialties.
Leticia Vindas wrote in El Financiero: "Foreign patients who wish to have any treatment in Costa Rica will be attended by the Safer Medical Group, while Costa Ricans who require a treatment that does not exist in the country may get it at Jackson Memorial Hospital in the USA.
There are 22 Costa Rican doctors that make up the Costa Rica Medical Consortium and 24 that are a part of the Safer Medical Group.
Medical tourism has become a good business which has led many specialists to start up companies together to attend to foreigners who decide to seek treatment or surgery in the country.
Last year, the country received 5000 medical tourists, mainly from the US: