How the Coronavirus Pandemic Ravaged Medical Tourism

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Ravaged Medical Tourism

Business | 'The Future Looks Bleak': The Pandemic Ravages Medical Tourism. As costs mount in the coronavirus crisis, hospitals are shifting their plans to develop hotels for patients seeking specialized treatments, despite an uncertain outlook.. Some hotel guests are bound to feel uneasy about sharing space with people who have spent time in a hospital - a concern amplified by the spread of the coronavirus - even if the discharged patients pose little risk of infectious disease.. Plus, robotic cleaning devices that use ultraviolet light, once envisioned solely for operating rooms, will be deployed to disinfect gathering areas in the hotel and condo sections, Royal Palm said.. "We are bringing the health care to hospitality, and the hospitality to health care," Mr. Watson said.. The plunge in elective surgery this spring has hollowed out the Cleveland property, said John T. Murphy, the firm's chief executive: About the only guests who have been around in recent months are visiting health care workers.. It gives 12 weeks of paid leave to people caring for children whose schools are closed or whose child care provider is unavailable because of the coronavirus.. A top expert at the World Health Organization stated