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Notes ● 21314. International Standards Organization (ISO), ISO in Brief, www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/otherpubs/pdf/isoinbrief_2005-en.pdf, accessed June 19, 2006.15. Ames Gross and Rachel Weintraub, “Drug, Device and Cosmetic Regulationsin Malaysia,” Pacific Bridge Medical (July 2005), www.pacificbridgemedical.com/publications/html/MalaysiaJuly05.htm, accessed June 11, 2006.16. Gross, “Updates on Malaysia’s Medical Markets.”17. Economic Times, “A Health Check for Indian Hospitals,” Economic TimesOnline, June 2, 2006, www.economictimes.indiatimes.com/srticleshow/msid-1606589.prtpage1.cms, accessed June 17, 2006.18. “RP Ready for Medical Tourism,” Global Nation, March 2004, www.inq7.net/globalnation/ser_ann/2004/mar/12-01.htm.19. While mechanisms exist for supervision and monitoring, there is a lack of continuousappraisal of quality and appropriateness in both private and public hospitals,leading Singkaew and Chaichana to say there is “a passive regulatory systemfor health care [italics mine]” (Songphan Singkaew and Songyot Chaichana, “TheCase of Thailand,” in UNCTAD-WHO Joint Publication, International Trade inHealth Services: A Development Perspective (Geneva: UN, 1998), p. 240.20. Gross, “Updates on Malaysia’s Medical Markets.”21. Bharat Biotech is in agreement with Wyeth Laboratories of Mumbai for atyphoid vaccine that Wyeth supplies to Asian countries (Clyde Prestowitz, ThreeBillion New Capitalists (New York: Basic Books, 2005), p. 95.22. Interview conducted by Karla Bookman with Robert Thurer, Chief AcademicOfficer, Harvard Medical School Dubai Center, in Dubai on July 2, 2006.23. David Warner “The Globalization of Medical Care,” UNCTAD-WHO JointPublication, International Trade in Health Services, p. 71.24. Mario Marconini, “Domestic Capacity and International Trade in HealthServices: the Main Issues,” in UNCTAD-WHO Joint Publication, InternationalTrade in Health Services, p. 55.25. The success rate is 99%. Aaditya Mattoo and Randeep Rathindran, “How HealthInsurance Inhibits Trade in Health Care,” Health Affairs 25, no. 2 (2006).26. The Indian government has set up task force on medical tourism to figure outlegislation for mandatory registration of all clinical establishments to ensurestandardization and uniformity in services. The government is also working ona Clinical Establishment Act that will make registration of all hospitals andclinics compulsory. Bhanu Pande and Sudipto Dey, “Are Hospitals Ready forMed Tourism?” Economic Times, September 24, 2005, www.economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1241131, accessed September 24, 2005.27. Joint Commission International, Accreditation Overview, www.jointcommissioninternational.com/international.asp?durki=7657, accessed June 7, 2006.28. Joint Commission International, Accredited Organizations, www.jointcommissioninternational.com/international.asp, accessed June 7, 2006.29. Olga Pierce, “Cashing In On Healthcare Trade,” in Medical Tourism: NewsAbout Medical Tourism and Patients Traveling to Foreign Countries for MedicalTreatment, March 12, 2006, www.globalhealthtours.com/medical_news/2006_03_12_archive.htm, accessed June 7, 2006.