Health care in Costa Rica
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Costa Rica
provides universal health care to its citizens and permanent residents.
Costa Rica is also a popular destination for medical tourism
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It has three internationally-accredited private hospitals.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
provides universal health care to its citizens and permanent residents.
Costa Rica is also a popular destination for medical tourism
Medical tourism
Medical tourism is a term initially coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain health care...
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It has three internationally-accredited private hospitals.