Although medical tourism is a boon for people who cannot afford expensive treatments in their own country, there are certain disadvantages to it. One of the biggest disadvantages is the environmental impacts of medical tourism, which is always negative.

      Most people going for medical treatment abroad tend to combine travel and tourism along with the medical procedure. This means that the country where you go for the treatment has to build more hotels to accommodate the ever growing number of patients cum tourists. The government resorts to deforestation to build more hotels and provide better civil amenities because medical tourism is a way of earning revenue and foreign exchange. In addition, medical tourism is also responsible for contributing to increased air emissions, noise, solid waste and littering, releases of sewage, oil and chemicals, even architectural/visual pollution; all which has negative impact on the environment.

        Medical tourism creates great pressure on local resources like energy, food and other raw material, which could be already in short supply in that country. Even natural resources like water, especially fresh water, is affected as medical tourism like any other tourism generally tends to overuse water resources for hotels, swimming pools, and personal use of water by the tourists. This results in shortage of water and degradation of water supplies as well as generating large volumes of waste water.

        From fiscal aspect, medical tourism is good for a country but the environmental impacts of medical tourism are always negative.

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