Hospitals in Bali

Bali is the one place in Indonesia where hospitals have been built around foreign patients rather than adapted to them. Two international hospitals in the south — one on the Bypass at Kuta, one inside the Nusa Dua resort complex — hold Australian accreditation, work in English, deal with named travel insurers and arrange evacuations. Behind them sit a Balinese private group with hospitals in Denpasar and on the airport side of Kuta, a 760-bed public referral hospital in the middle of Denpasar, and a hospital at Mas that is the nearest one to Ubud. For an island, that is unusually good cover.

This page lists all six with the practical detail: what kind of hospital it is, roughly how big, where it is, how to call it and how to find it on a map. Every name opens a full page on that hospital. Details were checked against each hospital’s own website in September 2026; switchboards do change, so if a number fails, call 119.

The 6 at a glance

Bed counts are approximate. Tap a name for the full page.

The hospitals

Which hospital should I go to?

For a serious injury with insurance, and for most road accidents in the south, go to BIMC Hospital Kuta on the Bypass at Simpang Siur, or to BIMC Siloam Nusa Dua if you are at Nusa Dua, Tanjung Benoa or Uluwatu: both are built for foreign patients and both arrange evacuation. In Denpasar, Kasih Ibu Denpasar is the deeper private hospital for anything needing a specialist, and Kasih Ibu Kedonganan covers Jimbaran and the airport side with orthopaedics on site. Without insurance, or for major trauma, neurosurgery or a long intensive-care stay, the answer is Prof. Ngoerah, still called Sanglah. In Ubud, Ari Canti at Mas is the nearest hospital rather than a clinic. In a life-or-death emergency, call 119.

What will it cost?

Three tiers, and the gap between them is wide. The public hospital charges a foreigner more than an Indonesian and still very little by Western standards: a consultation, tests and medicine at Prof. Ngoerah cost less than a night in a decent hotel, and even an admission is survivable without insurance. The Balinese private hospitals — Kasih Ibu and Ari Canti — charge several times that, which is still modest. The two international hospitals are priced for foreign patients, close to Western private rates: with insurance they are worth it for the language, the speed and the paperwork; without it, a serious admission runs into thousands of dollars quickly. Ask for a written estimate before any procedure, at any of them.

Insurance, deposits and paperwork

Deposits are the norm here. Every hospital on this page will ask for money before an admission and for the bill to be settled before discharge, and that applies to foreign patients as a matter of routine. Both BIMC hospitals and the Kasih Ibu group publish lists of the insurers and assistance companies they bill directly, but direct billing needs a guarantee of payment arranged through your insurer’s assistance line, not simply a policy number waved at the desk — so phone that number first if there is any time at all. Outpatient visits are usually pay-and-claim everywhere. Carry your passport, your policy number and, after a road accident, the rental agreement and your licence, and never leave without an itemised receipt and a medical report in English.

Getting there and ambulances

The national ambulance number is 119, and 112 reaches any emergency service from a mobile. A public ambulance takes you to the nearest appropriate hospital, which for a serious case in the south usually means Denpasar. The private hospitals all run their own ambulances and will send one to the number on their page; BIMC Kuta also runs a first-response emergency motorbike, which is a rational answer to Bali traffic. For anything that can wait, Grab and Gojek cars reach every hospital here. Do not put an injured person on the back of a scooter, and reckon on the Bypass and the Kuta–Denpasar roads adding half an hour in the late afternoon.

Scooters, diving and evacuation

The scooter is the story. Rented motorbikes put more travellers into Balinese hospitals than everything else combined, and the ruinous part is not the crash: travel insurers refuse the claim when the rider held no valid motorcycle licence, and a car licence is not one. An international driving permit without the motorcycle category, no helmet and bare legs are the three costliest mistakes here. If a case is beyond what Bali can finish, Singapore is about two and a half hours away by air and is where the serious ones go — which is what medical evacuation cover buys, and the part of a policy worth reading first. Divers going to Nusa Penida or Amed should know that the recompression chamber is in Denpasar: Prof. Ngoerah lists a hyperbaric unit among its facilities. For the Gili Islands, which are in Lombok and not Bali, ask your dive operator which chamber covers them before you get in the water.

Pharmacies

For a stomach upset, a rash, sunburn or a cold you do not need a hospital. Indonesian pharmacies — look for the word apotek — sell most everyday medicines over the counter, and the chains Kimia Farma, Guardian and Century are easy to find in Kuta, Seminyak, Denpasar and Ubud, with pharmacists who usually speak enough English to advise. Antibiotics legally need a prescription, whatever a counter assistant says. Buy from a proper pharmacy rather than a minimarket shelf, check the expiry date, and treat a fever lasting more than a couple of days as a reason to see a doctor: dengue is common in Bali and needs a blood test, not a painkiller.

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