Previously in Medical Care Outsourcing Soon to be Primetime it was mentioned that the insurer United Group Programs was beginning to offer coverage for offshore medical procedures and had even added Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok to their preferred providers list. It seems to going prime time rapidly, with over 40 companies having already signed […]

Three leading private hospitals in Bangkok are working with Thai immigration to make it even easier to extend your stay for medical treatment purposes. Thai immigration code has a special clause allowing for long stay visas for health rehabilitation. And to make it even easier, Bumrungrad, Bangkok International and Samitivej hospitals have each established visa […]

Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital in collaboration with Chulalongkorn Hospital and Thai StemLife will carry out clinical trials on the use of stem cell therapy on diabetic patients to treat limb ulcers that often lead to amputation. The therapy involves collection and replication of a patient’s adult stem cells that are then injected back into the patient’s […]

Samitivej Hospital is one of the big name private hospitals in Bangkok with a history and reputation comparable to Bumrungrad. Samitivej was present at a recent health and beauty convention promotiing their “Estetics Institute”. It is a new wing at the hospital that focuses on a variety of cosmetic medical procedures.
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A series of press releases have appeared on PRWeb.com regarding the death of a young man at Bumrungrad Hospital. The story is that a 23 year old man named Joshua Goldberg checked into the hospital on 12 February 2006 because his leg was swollen, had no feeling, and he could not move it. He died […]

Bumrungrad International Hospital, Southeast Asia’s largest private hospital, has opened a representative office in Hanoi, Vietnam. The Hanoi office will assist Vietnamese in accessing health services from Bumrungrad’s Bangkok-based hospital. 2,600 patients from Vietnam have already received treatment at Bumrungrad. This is another step in the hospital’s expansion to reach patients in other countries around […]