According to the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, the country's medical services should be accessible to all citizens and attractive for foreigners.

As reported by "Georgia-News", this is what the president said during a visit to the diversified clinic New Hospital in the Georgian capital.

The President has inspected the-art medical machinery, which is equipped the hospital, operating theaters and dining room and also has talked to hospital staff and patients. Saakashvili was accompanied by Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia Andria Urushadze and the head of the Committee on Health and Social Affairs Gigi Tsereteli.

"Our best experts and investors have created a clinic which previously we could only dream of. This means that Georgia should not have any minor issues" - Saakashvili said.

"I look forward to the time when the citizens of Georgia will no longer travel abroad for treatment. You have seen yourself that already foreigners come to Georgia for treatment. One of the important parts of tourism is a medical tourism which must be developed in Georgia as well as, for example, in Switzerland and Austria. We have a great potential for this, since we have such highly skilled doctors most of whom speak a foreign language" - Saakashvili said, stressing the importance of development of so-called "medical tourism".

Reference: http://www.news.az/articles/georgia/44377