Bangkok Hospital Hua Hin (video)

The specialist treatments in Bangkok hospitals in Thailand are generally very good. However, the emphasis is very much on the money. As soon as a guarantee from an insurer is received, all the rigisters open, until then everything is on the back burner. You also have to be careful with the provision of some medications. Because not all medications are included in the insurance package. But the hospital doesn't look at that. It comes as a surprise after the admission period. The food is not always tasty. And contact with nursing staff is often difficult. Since many speak poor English, you often get the same thing. That the patient in question feels excluded, he is the patient but is not involved as a patient. People then speak to the Thai partner because that is much easier. The rooms are very good and comfortable, the food is reasonable to good. It's just a pity that the will and wishes of a patient are often not taken into account if they can no longer express themselves because they are unconscious or confused. Being tied to a bed is then an inexorable consequence and they try to keep the patient alive for as long as possible, even if he or she has completed a statement from the hospital. And it is stated very clearly that he or she does not want this and does not appreciate it at all.
The medicines are also many times more expensive than at the pharmacy stores outside the hospital.
Even though I have good insurance based on Unive. But then with CZ health insurance and they know this very well. In the first few days you are always bothered with requests to pay decent guarantee amounts. And that doesn't feel good. This should be changed. Furthermore, communication with various departments is not always optimal and can lead to unpleasant moments and contacts. I do take my hat off to the Dutch co-ordinator Frank and to the Belgian Danny. If the points mentioned were improved and there was more understanding for the patient and his feelings and less chasing after money, it would be a very good hospital.

Unfortunately I had to spend a few weeks in the Bangkok Hospital in Hua Hin. I can only say that I am full of praise. Had no problem with the language, sometimes it is indeed a bit difficult, but when it comes to being ill and feelings etc, everything is difficult, even in Dutch. A phone call from the hospital to the SOS emergency center was enough for a bank guarantee, so no problem at all. Even the check-up visits afterwards were simply paid directly by the insurance company. The food is indeed nothing to write home about, but it is stated separately on the bill, so you don't have to take it and you can just bring your own food. Visitors could also simply sleep and cook in the room. A Dutch advance directive regarding further treatment, etc. is almost worthless paper immediately across the border with the Netherlands (and Belgium). most countries in the world are nowhere near that point. If medicines are available cheaper elsewhere, this was duly reported by the doctor. All medications and treatments were reimbursed by Unive, without restriction. Multiple doctors at your bedside in one day? there was only 1 on the bill. My partner had to take the ambulance to Bangkok for an examination and back with sirens blaring (now that's soon here)! costs 4000 TBT. A little taxi already requires that. I just want to say that I don't really have the feeling that it's just about the money.

Last year I was in the AEK Hospital in Udon Thani. I had a bacterial infection on my hand (subcutaneous, not an open wound, called cellulitis). Given the medication I would receive, the attending physician thought it would be better for me to be admitted to check my blood pressure, heart rate, etc. The care in the hospital was excellent, I wrote about it before. I cannot judge the medical quality of this, after a week the inflammation was gone and I was able to leave the hospital. At the same time I also had an inflammation of a toe, accompanied by an open wound. When I was in the hospital, the wound was cleaned and redressed every day. When I was discharged from the hospital, I was able to return to the hospital every day for the same treatment. Excellent care. But the wound did not get better, rather worse. At one point the doctor even dropped the word “gangrene”. Fortunately, that turned out not to be the case. When I returned to the Netherlands, I had had the wound for 5 weeks. When I got home, I immediately went to my doctor, who then referred me directly to the hospital, where I could go after a MRSA test a few days later. There the wound was cleaned and bandaged again and after 3 weeks the wound had healed again. In retrospect, I thought the care at the AEK Hospital was excellent, but I have my doubts about the medical quality, especially with regard to the treatment of the toe. Why did the wound in Thailand not get better in 5 weeks, but rather worse? and was it over in the Netherlands in 3 weeks?

Tanarak in Pranburi saved my leg.
They brought me in to San Paulo in a coma.
Normally I would have been dead in 76 hours from 1 very small wound caused by a goat that jumped on my foot to greet me that it wanted to welcome me
Well, that wound will pass, you think.
In that hospital they wanted to amputate my leg because at that moment you could already play the guitar on the tendons of my foot.
To my luck, a connection came in with a high military rank and after paying 40.000.- Thb to that hospital, had me urgently transported to Tanarak.
It took 4 surgeries to save my leg in 10 days.
After almost 6 years it is not completely over and still follow the doctor who has now gone to Hua Hin Hospital ..
There the king has his own floor.
There is a huge difference in price
The military hospital is half the price of Hua hin hospital not to mention a private hospital .
That bill almost gives you a heart attack if you are allowed to go outside .