Outsourcing issues

Last week has seen some buzz about the NIH shipping blood and urine samples to India for analysis. Apparently the low cost of analysis in India offsets the shipping costs.

I wonder if this is also possible. If a flight were to be chartered with people requiring MRIs and CT scans, I wonder if the low cost of the studies in India would more than offset the cost of travel, as compared to the cost in the UK.

Typically, if you can get fares for around Rs 20,000 on a charter-flight and it costs around Rs 70,000 in the private sector in the UK to do an MRI and we charge around Rs 5,000 for an MRI, it could work. Just needs an entrepreneur with spunk.