Wat Arun on the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok

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🇹🇭  Treatment in Bangkok

Bangkok is in Bangkok Metropolis. Its private clinics are licensed or registered by the Ministry of Public Health, Department of Health Service Support; it also publishes a list of them.

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Not medical advice. Whether a treatment is right for you is a decision to take with a doctor or dentist who has examined you. We never rank, review or recommend clinics in Bangkok.

Region

Bangkok Metropolis

Airport

BKK

Time zone

UTC+7

EU rules

No

Who licenses clinics in Bangkok

Bangkok is in Bangkok Metropolis (กรุงเทพมหานคร).

Regional authority

Ministry of Public Health, Department of Health Service Support

กระทรวงสาธารณสุข กรมสนับสนุนบริการสุขภาพ

Private hospitals and clinics in Thailand must be licensed under the Sanatorium (Medical Facilities) Act; the Department of Health Service Support publishes the national check of licensed private facilities.

Regional register

Department of Health Service Support: check of licensed private medical facilities

The Ministry of Public Health's search of licensed private hospitals and clinics, by licence number or by name (in Thai). Ask the clinic for its licence number (เลขที่ใบอนุญาต) and search it.

Check a clinic or a doctor in Bangkok

The national registers for Thailand cover Bangkok too:

Doctors

Medical Council of Thailand: check a doctor

Search a doctor's first name and surname, in Thai or in English: only doctors licensed to practise medicine are listed.

Dentists

Dental Council of Thailand: check a dentist

Type the dentist's first name and surname exactly as written in their licence (the form is in Thai): it lists only living dentists licensed to practise. If you do not find them, ask for their licence number and contact the council.

Getting there

Most patients fly into Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (BKK). Don Mueang (DMK) is Bangkok's second airport, used by many low-cost airlines.

Estimated flight time
FromEstimated flight
United Kingdomabout 12.5 h
Irelandabout 12.8 h
Germanyabout 11.3 h
Franceabout 12.1 h
United Statesabout 15.5 h
Canadaabout 15.3 h
Australiaabout 7.2 h

Straight-line estimate from the nearest main airport (800 km/h plus 30 minutes), not a timetable: connections add time.

Treatments in Thailand

Other cities in Thailand: Phuket · Thailand: the whole country

Sources

Next review due 9 May 2027.