Visa facilitates Nepali medical travellers seeking treatment in India

KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 8:  Visa (NYSE: V) has announced it has partnered with Vaidam, a hospital care discovery platform, to make payments easier for medical travelers from Nepal seeking healthcare in India. Issuing a press release on Tuesday (February 8),  this digital payments company made such an announcement. 

“Seeking medical facilities in a foreign country and navigating the process can be complex and intimidating. We are pleased
to partner with Vaidam to enable citizens of Nepal seeking medical treatment in India with more comfort
and wider access to hospitals."  the release quoted Soumya Basu, Country Manager, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, Visa as saying,

The Vaidam platform, as is said, enables patients seeking healthcare from numerous countries including Nepal and
Bangladeshto look for specialist services for critical illnesses and medical care in up to100 hospitals
across India, for a variety of treatments and procedures. Vaidam also assists patients with logistics, once
they arrive in India.

This partnership with Vaidam provides Visa cardholders a discount of up to 10% on
various in-patient services, including procedures and surgeries on using Vaidam to book healthcare
services in India.

“Patients seeking healthcare have been travelling from Nepal to India for several years, reposing immense faith in the professionalism
and quality medical care provided by Indian doctors and hospitals. Having served numerous patients so
far from Nepal in almost6 years, Vaidam is now proud to partner with Visa, one of the most trusted brands
throughout the world, and serve all Visa cardholders in the Vaidam hospital network to help them get
back to healthy life faster.”Pankaj Chandna, Co-founder, Vaidam Health (www.vaidam.com) reported said.

A patient or caregiver can visit the Vaidam website and search for the hospital, doctor and care needed
and opt to pay through their Visa cards. The payment can be made at the hospital in India once the
patient arrives and avails of the treatment, paying for the bills with their Visa card issued in Nepal. To
ease the complexity of availing of medical services in another country, a case officer will also reporedly be assigned
to the patient or caregiver to assist them through the booking and treatment process.

This partnership between Visa and Vaidam aims to ease the payment process for the thousands of patients travelling and
seeking medical care in India. This offer is valid till 19 th December 2022.