Boracay and Aklan, Philippines. 4 major hospitals, 2 public, 2 private.
Boracay has one 25-bed hospital and one small private infirmary; everything else is in Kalibo, an hour and a half away by boat and road — with beds, levels, addresses, phone numbers and maps.
Philippine Red Cross: 143. Saint Gabriel Medical Center Boracay: +63 36 288 9911.
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On a small island the honest rule is that anything serious means leaving it — get to Ciriaco S. Tirol Hospital first, and if you cannot move the patient yourself, call 911.
Boracay is about ten square kilometres of sand, hotels and one inland road, and it has one hospital: Ciriaco S. Tirol Hospital in Balabag, 25 beds, licensed by the Department of Health at Level 1, run by the Provincial Government of Aklan and known to everyone simply as Tirol. Beside it, the Saint Gabriel group runs a small private facility at Manoc-Manoc that PhilHealth accredits as a ten-bed infirmary rather than a hospital, and a scatter of private clinics and diagnostic centres sits along the main road — Scandi, MedExpress, Medicus, TJMC, Vicente-Isabel, Boracay Alert. Those are clinics, useful ones, but they are not hospitals and this page does not list them as such. For anything the island cannot handle, the answer is a boat and a road.
So this page covers four hospitals: the two facilities on the island, the 300-bed provincial hospital in Kalibo, and a large private hospital in the same town. Bed counts, hospital levels, phone numbers and email addresses come from PhilHealth’s list of accredited hospitals and infirmaries for 2026 and from the Provincial Government of Aklan’s own pages, checked in September 2026. Every name opens a full page on that hospital. Switchboards change; if a number fails, call 911.
| Hospital | Type | Beds | Where | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Rafael S. Tumbokon Memorial Hospital | Public | 300 | Mabini Street, Kalibo | +63 36 268 7062 |
| Saint Gabriel Medical Center — Kalibo | Private | 120 | Archbishop Reyes Street, Kalibo | +63 36 268 3710 |
| Ciriaco S. Tirol Hospital (formerly Boracay Island Municipal Hospital) | Public | 25 | Main road, Balabag | +63 36 288 3041 |
| Saint Gabriel Medical Center — Boracay | Private | 10 | Ambulong Road, Manoc-Manoc | +63 36 288 9911 |
Bed counts are approximate. Tap a name for the full page.
Aklan’s biggest hospital — a 300-bed Level 2 public hospital on Mabini Street in Kalibo, and the end of the referral line for the whole province.
Mabini Street, Poblacion, Kalibo, Aklan 5600
+63 36 268 7062 / Website / Google Maps
Read the full pageThe private alternative in Kalibo — 120 beds, Level 2, in the middle of town, and the hospital behind the Saint Gabriel infirmary on Boracay.
Archbishop G. M. Reyes Street, Poblacion, Kalibo, Aklan 5600
Read the full pageThe only hospital on Boracay — 25 beds, Level 1, run by the province of Aklan, on the main road in Balabag, and the island’s emergency room.
Balabag, Boracay Island, Malay, Aklan 5608
+63 36 288 3041 / Website / Google Maps
Read the full pageThe island’s private option — a ten-bed infirmary at Manoc-Manoc, open around the clock, with a laboratory, X-ray, ultrasound and a pharmacy on site.
Ambulong Road, Barangay Manoc-Manoc, Boracay Island, Malay, Aklan 5608
Read the full pageFor anything serious that happens on the island — a road crash on the main road, chest pain, a bad fall, a diving problem — go to Ciriaco S. Tirol Hospital in Balabag. It is the only hospital on Boracay, it has the operating theatre and the ambulance, and it is where the clinics and the resorts send a case they cannot manage. For a minor illness or injury at the southern end of the island, Saint Gabriel Medical Center Boracay on Ambulong Road says it is open around the clock and will see you privately. Once a case needs intensive care, a CT scan, a specialist or major surgery, it leaves the island: Dr. Rafael S. Tumbokon Memorial Hospital in Kalibo is the province’s end-referral public hospital, and Saint Gabriel Medical Center Kalibo is the private alternative in the same town.
Less than you fear, and more than the island suggests. Aklan publishes the rates at its own hospitals: at Ciriaco S. Tirol a ward bed is ₱500 a day and a private air-conditioned room ₱2,000, and the major operating-room fee is ₱2,000 plus the cost of supplies — a fraction of a private hospital anywhere in the West, and a fraction of Manila. The two private facilities, Saint Gabriel on the island and in Kalibo, charge several times that and still come out cheap by Western standards. The real cost of being ill on Boracay is not the bill at the door; it is the transfer — boat, van, sometimes a flight — and the days that go with it. Ask for a written estimate before any procedure.
Philippine hospitals expect money before they admit you, and they expect it from foreign patients as a matter of course: a deposit at admission and the bill settled in full before discharge. That is the single most useful thing to know on this page. PhilHealth, the national insurance that reduces the bill for Filipinos, does not cover a visitor, so you pay the full listed rate. Direct billing to a foreign insurer is a Manila and Cebu arrangement and should not be assumed in Aklan — plan to pay and claim, and ring your insurer’s assistance line early so the claim is open before the transfers start. Carry your passport, your policy number and a card that works abroad, plus cash: on the island, cash is the safe assumption. Ask for an itemised receipt and a medical certificate in English before you leave.
911 is the national emergency number for ambulance, police and fire; 143 reaches the Philippine Red Cross. On Boracay itself, distances are tiny — the island is about seven kilometres end to end and there is one main road — and an e-trike or tricycle will get you to Tirol in minutes from anywhere between Station 1 and Station 3, though the road is slow in the evening. Ciriaco S. Tirol Hospital runs its own ambulance, handed over by the Department of Health’s regional office in 2025; its switchboard is +63 36 288 3041. Saint Gabriel Medical Center Boracay answers on +63 36 288 9911 and on two mobile numbers. Do not plan around an air ambulance — anything of that kind is something your insurer arranges and pays for, not a service standing by on the island.
Boracay has no bridge. The crossing is a ten to fifteen minute boat between Cagban jetty port, at the island’s southern tip, and Caticlan Jetty Port on Panay; when the habagat makes the western side rough, roughly June to October, the service shifts to the eastern pair, Tambisaan and Tabon. Caticlan airport is two kilometres from the jetty; Kalibo is 65 kilometres on, ninety minutes to two hours by road. Tirol can stabilise, operate on straightforward cases and keep you overnight; intensive care, a CT scan and major trauma are mainland work. Beyond Kalibo the region’s Level 3 hospital is Western Visayas Medical Center in Iloilo City, three to four hours by road, and Cebu and Manila are reached by air from Caticlan or Kalibo. Nights are harder: boats thin out after about ten, a later crossing depends on a special trip, and a gale warning stops sailings altogether. Insure for evacuation, and do not save a hospital visit for midnight.
The main road through Balabag has a chain pharmacy and several independents, and most of the island’s clinics dispense what they prescribe. Two differences from elsewhere in Southeast Asia are worth knowing. Antibiotics are prescription-only in the Philippines and pharmacists enforce it, so a chest infection or a bad skin infection means seeing a doctor first — one of the clinics will do, and it is quick. And island stock is island stock: anything unusual, and anything you take daily, should come with you in your luggage in the original box, with enough to cover a delayed departure. For a stomach upset, sunburn, an insect bite or a hangover, the pharmacy is the right first stop. A fever that lasts more than two days is not: dengue is present here and needs a blood test.
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