Bumrungrad International in the news again. They have been steadily expanding throughout Asia and the Middle East. The latest development is the signing of a four year agreement with the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi to operate the Al Mahfraq Hospital in the United Arab Emirates. The hospital has 460 beds and handles over 310,00 […]

The Joint Commission International (JCI) has awarded Bumrungrad International Hospital certification of its stroke and heart attack patient care. These two disease specific accreditations mean that Bumrungrad meets or exceeds international best practices for treatment of patients suffering from stroke and heart attack. Bumrungrad is one of only two hospitals outside the U.S. to receive […]

This story is from October 2006 but worth mentioning for completeness in the assessment of Thailand’s top healthcare facilities. Newsweek, in an article titled Medical Meccas, features Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok and lavishes the usual praises upon it such as “world-class medicine at developing-world prices”, and “velvet-glove treatment redolent of a five-star hotel”. The […]

The Bangkok Post has a story today about the rise in the number of Japanese coming to Thailand for medical treatment. Kasikorn Research Centre published a survey that states the number of Japanese who came to Thailand for medical treatment in 2006 was 185,616 or 14.9 percent of all foreign patients. And they expect that […]

The website NewsTarget.com has as it’s tagline “Information that Empowers”. And information about healthcare alternatives abroad fits well with their philosophy. They have an article from April 2005 that challenges the commonly held assumption that medicine in the U.S. is the best in the world. The author asserts that the U.S. ranks near the bottom […]

Back in September 2005 60 minutes did a story on medical tourism with the focus on Thailand. This is when Bumrungrad really got introduced to the American public. The story is still up on the CBS News website, including a video of the segment.
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That’s the title of a story on medical tourism over at news.com.au. Funny thing is, the entire story is a glowing account of medical tourism in Thailand, Singapore and India - no warts. It’s another good snapshot of the state of medical tourism and the preeminent position of hospitals like Thailand’s Bumrungrand International in this […]

The Korea times has an article on “surgery tours” being run to Thailand for cosmetic surgery, particularly breast augmentation. According to a woman interviewed about her experience with one of the tours the cost was less than 3.4 million won in total for breast augmentation surgery in Thailand. The cost included 2.2 million won for […]

Augmented reality surgery and virtual reality surgery are terms that will become more commonplace in the medical industry as advances in computer assisted operations move forward. And the Thai healthcare industry isn’t being left behind. Recently the first robotic sugery in Thailand was performed, a prostrate cancer operation at Bangkok Hospital using the Da Vinci […]

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette online edition has an article that is a good read about some experiences of a few patients who have had overseas medical care, including one individual who had back surgery at Bumrungrad Hospital. After getting an estimate of $70,000 for the procedure in the U.S., $14,000 of which would have been out […]