Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 5 major hospitals, 2 public, 3 private.
Five hospitals — three private, two public — with addresses, phone numbers and maps, and an honest account of what each can and cannot do.
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For anything major, assume the plan is stabilisation here and a flight to Bangkok — and in a life-or-death emergency, the nearest emergency department of any of the five, or dial 119 for an ambulance.
Phnom Penh has a small number of hospitals a foreign patient can use with confidence, and a public system behind them doing a great deal with very little. That is the honest shape of it. Three private hospitals — one internationally accredited and run by a Thai group, one Japanese-run and built around emergency and stroke care, one Cambodian and central — handle the ordinary run of travel illness and injury perfectly well. The two big public hospitals will stabilise anyone, cost almost nothing and are where an ambulance goes, but they are crowded, stretched and working in Khmer.
This page lists all five with the practical detail: what kind of hospital it is, where it is, how to call it and how to find it on a map. It also says plainly what the city does not have, because that is the part travellers get wrong. For major trauma, complex surgery or more than a short stay in intensive care, the realistic plan is stabilisation here and a flight to Bangkok, about an hour away. Details were checked against each hospital’s own website in September 2026 where one exists; numbers change, so if a line fails, dial 119.
| Hospital | Type | Beds | Where | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calmette Hospital | Public | 250 | Monivong Boulevard, north end of the centre | +855 23 426 948 |
| Sunrise Japan Hospital Phnom Penh | Private | 50 | Chroy Changvar, over the Japanese Friendship Bridge | +855 23 260 152 |
| Central Hospital | Private | Street 154, a block behind Central Market | +855 23 214 955 | |
| Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital | Public | Street 271, south of the centre | +855 23 217 524 | |
| Royal Phnom Penh Hospital | Private | Russian Federation Boulevard, Sen Sok | +855 23 991 000 |
Bed counts are approximate. Tap a name for the full page.
Cambodia’s flagship public hospital — around 250 beds on Monivong Boulevard, the national referral centre, and where an ambulance will usually take you.
No. 3, Preah Monivong Boulevard (93), Sangkat Srah Chak, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh 120210
+855 23 426 948 / Website / Google Maps
Read the full pageA 50-bed Japanese-run hospital across the river in Chroy Changvar, built around emergency, stroke and neurosurgical care to a Japanese standard.
No. 177E, Kola Loum Street (the Bay Road), Group 2, Phum 2, Sangkat Chroy Changvar, Khan Chroy Changvar, Phnom Penh 121001
+855 23 260 152 / Website / Google Maps
Read the full pageA mid-sized private hospital beside Central Market, open since 2011 — the most central of the private options, and a good deal cheaper than the international ones.
No. 82A, Street 154, Sangkat Phsar Thmei 3, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh 120203
+855 23 214 955 / Website / Google Maps
Read the full pageOne of Cambodia’s two big public referral hospitals — open since 1960, on Street 271 south of the centre, and listed as open around the clock.
Yothapol Khemarak Phoumin Boulevard (Street 271), Sangkat Tumnup Teuk, Khan Boeung Keng Kang, Phnom Penh 120108
Read the full pageThe city’s flagship private hospital — part of Thailand’s BDMS group, internationally accredited, and the one insurers and embassies point a foreign patient towards.
No. 888, Russian Federation Boulevard (110), Sangkat Toeuk Thla, Khan Sen Sok, Phnom Penh 120802
+855 23 991 000 / Website / Google Maps
Read the full pageWith insurance, or with anything serious and the means to pay, go to Royal Phnom Penh Hospital in Sen Sok: internationally accredited, run by the group behind Thailand’s Bangkok Hospital chain, and the one insurers and embassies name. For a head injury, a suspected stroke or a bad motorbike accident, Sunrise Japan Hospital across the river is small but specialised in exactly that. Staying near the riverside with something ordinary — a fever, an infection, a cut? Central Hospital on Street 154 is a block from Central Market and costs a fraction of the international ones. Without insurance, Calmette Hospital on Monivong Boulevard is the country’s flagship public hospital, and Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital is the other state one, south of the centre. Khema International Polyclinic, Naga Clinic and Raffles Medical are clinics rather than hospitals, so they are not listed here, though they handle consultations and minor problems well. In a life-or-death emergency, the nearest emergency department, or 119.
Three tiers, and the gaps between them are wide. The public hospitals charge very little: a consultation, tests and medicine at Calmette or Khmer-Soviet Friendship come to less than a night in a mid-range hotel, and even an admission is affordable. Central Hospital sits in the middle, clearly more than a public hospital and clearly less than an international one. Royal Phnom Penh and Sunrise Japan are priced as international hospitals, which here means several times a Cambodian private bill, though still below Bangkok. Payment is commonly expected in United States dollars, which circulate alongside the riel, and up front — a deposit before admission, or an insurer’s written guarantee arranged in advance. Ask for a written estimate before any procedure, at any of the five, and keep a card rather than a wad of cash for the deposit.
Two of the five are set up to deal with foreign insurers; the others are not. Royal Phnom Penh runs an insurance contact centre, asks you to have cover verified before treatment, and is the hospital most likely to accept a guarantee of payment from an assistance company. Sunrise Japan will work with an insurer if the arrangement is made in advance through your policy’s 24-hour line, but has said only a small share of its patients use insurance at all. Assume everything else is pay-and-claim. Ring the assistance number on your policy before you go to hospital if there is any time at all: it opens the claim, it can name the hospital it prefers, and it is the same call that starts an evacuation if one turns out to be needed. Take your passport and your policy number, and after a road accident take the rental agreement and your licence too.
The national ambulance number is 119. It works, but cover is thin and response times in Phnom Penh traffic are unpredictable, so for anything short of an emergency most people simply travel. Royal Phnom Penh runs its own 24-hour emergency line and ambulances on +855 23 991 222, and Central Hospital publishes a 24-hour hotline on +855 95 580 227. Grab and PassApp cars are the practical way across town and both are cheap; a tuk-tuk is fine for a short hop but is no place for a serious injury. Geography matters more here than the map suggests: Royal Phnom Penh is out towards the airport, Sunrise Japan is over the Japanese Friendship Bridge, and both the bridge and Monivong Boulevard jam solid in the late afternoon.
Bangkok is about an hour from Phnom Penh by air, and for major trauma, complex surgery or more than a short stay in intensive care it is where the treatment is. That makes evacuation the normal plan here rather than a last resort, which is the thing travellers most often misunderstand: it is not an exotic extra on a policy, in Cambodia it is the point of the policy. Check before you travel that yours covers medical evacuation and repatriation and not merely treatment, and that the limit on it is not a token one. Save the 24-hour assistance number in your phone, and write it somewhere that is not your phone. Understand who decides, because it is not you: the insurer’s own doctors, working with the treating hospital, judge whether a patient is fit to fly and where they go. What you can do is call early, so that assessment starts while the options are still open.
For a cold, a stomach upset, a rash or a headache you do not need a hospital. Pharmacies are everywhere in Phnom Penh and most everyday medicines are sold over the counter, but quality varies more here than in Thailand or Vietnam, and badly stored or counterfeit stock is a real problem. Stick to the established chains and to the pharmacies attached to the hospitals themselves rather than a roadside counter, check the packaging and the expiry date, and take antibiotics on a doctor’s advice rather than a shopkeeper’s. Two things a pharmacy cannot settle. A fever lasting more than two days needs a blood test, because dengue is present year-round. And any animal bite or scratch needs a hospital the same day, because rabies is a genuine hazard in Cambodia — ask specifically whether the hospital holds both the vaccine and the immunoglobulin, and be ready to be sent elsewhere for them.
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