Private hospital, Sukhumvit Soi 3, Nana. Emergency room open 24 hours; outpatient clinics daily.
Bumrungrad International Hospital
Bangkok’s best-known international hospital — 580 beds on Sukhumvit Soi 3, JCI-accredited since 2002, with over 130 interpreters and a 24-hour emergency room.
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Say “rong phayaban Bamrungrat”. On Sukhumvit Soi 3 (Soi Nana Nua), a few minutes’ walk north of BTS Nana; every taxi driver in the city knows it.
- TypePrivate — Bumrungrad Hospital PCL, Thailand’s largest international hospital
- BedsAbout 580
- Address33 Sukhumvit Soi 3 (Soi Nana Nua), Wattana, Bangkok 10110
- Switchboard+66 2 066 8888
- Emergency hotline from a Thai phone1378
- Ambulance, 24 hours+66 2 011 5222
- Outpatient appointments+66 2 011 2222
- Websitebumrungrad.com
- HoursEmergency room open 24 hours; outpatient clinics daily
- LanguagesOver 130 interpreters on staff (the hospital’s own figure); virtually all doctors speak English
- AccreditationJCI (Joint Commission International), first accredited 2002 — confirm the current term with the hospital
- Opened1980
- On the mapOpen in Google Maps
The hospital most foreigners in Bangkok have heard of: a 580-bed private hospital on Sukhumvit Soi 3, a few minutes from BTS Nana, with a 24-hour emergency room, more than 130 interpreters on staff and specialist centres for almost everything. It was the first hospital in Asia to be accredited by JCI, in 2002, and it treats hundreds of thousands of international patients a year.
What it is known for
International patients, in volume: the hospital reports more than 600,000 international medical episodes a year from over 180 countries, and its whole operation is built around them — a medical coordination office, interpreters (over 130 on staff), embassy liaison, insurance desks and a website in a dozen languages. Clinically it is a full tertiary hospital with 580 licensed inpatient beds, adult, paediatric and neonatal intensive-care units, 24-hour emergency care including emergency cardiac catheterisation, and specialist centres for heart, cancer, orthopaedics, neurology, digestive disease, fertility and much else. It was the first hospital in Asia to earn JCI accreditation, in 2002, and has held it since.
Who it suits
Anyone with travel insurance or the means to pay, anyone with a serious or complicated illness, and anyone who wants to be seen quickly in their own language without navigating a Thai hospital. Families use it for paediatrics, long-stay residents for check-ups and surgery, and visitors from across the region fly in for planned treatment. It is not the place for a bargain: a traveller with a minor complaint and no insurance will pay several times what a public hospital charges for the same consultation, and the pharmacies and clinics of Sukhumvit will do for a cold.
Cost and insurance
The most expensive hospital in Thailand, priced like a Western private hospital: expect a few thousand baht for a straightforward outpatient visit with tests, and far more for imaging or an admission. Direct billing is available to insurers with a contract; the hospital has a third-party payer desk (+66 2 011 2289) that handles guarantees of payment. Anyone else pays as they go or leaves a deposit on admission, so ring your insurer’s assistance line first if the situation allows. Ask for a written estimate before any procedure and keep every receipt and the discharge summary — both are needed for a claim.
Getting there
On Sukhumvit Soi 3, also called Soi Nana Nua, on the north side of Sukhumvit Road; the entrance is a few minutes’ walk from BTS Nana and about ten from BTS Phloen Chit. A taxi from anywhere on Sukhumvit is quick outside rush hour, and every driver knows the name. In an emergency call the hospital’s own ambulance on +66 2 011 5222, or 1378 from a Thai phone, rather than driving — Sukhumvit traffic is solid from late afternoon into the evening.
Details checked against the hospital’s own website, September 2026. Call before a non-urgent visit; in an emergency call 1669 or the hospital’s own emergency line above. Travel information, not medical advice.
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