This is interesting. The Tourism Authority of Thailand is having a medical tourism blogging contest. Details are at medblogcontest.com. They say there is more than $18,000 in cash and prizes to be awarded (I assume USD, it doesn’t say). The purpose is, of course, to promote medical tourism in Thailand. A feature of the contest […]

Bumrungrad Hospital has been considered the gold standard in medical tourism destination for many years. It’s become quite famous in western countries, even receiving a plum spot on 60 minutes years ago. That spot may have been the tipping point as foreign patients arrived in droves as Thailand medical tourism sky rocketed. Bumrungrad was seeing […]

Previous rumors about Bangkok Hospital planning to develop a new facility in Pak Chong seemed to have been based on facts but were a bit incomplete. The details actually appeared in The Nation back in June but I missed it. According to that story, Bangkok Hospital Group purchased land on Mittraphap Road adjacent to the […]