Hospitals in Da Nang and Hoi An

Da Nang is the medical centre of central Vietnam, and that matters more here than in most beach cities: the next comparable hospitals are hours away, and Hoi An, thirty kilometres south, has only a small hospital of its own. Care comes in three tiers. Da Nang Hospital, the state tertiary hospital, holds the region’s best specialists and its intensive care, takes referrals from the provinces around it and charges very little — but it is crowded and works in Vietnamese. Hoan My is the Vietnamese private hospital in the middle. Vinmec is the international tier, built for patients with insurance who expect to be dealt with in English, at many times the price.

This page lists five hospitals across the two towns: what kind each one 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 published contact details in September 2026; switchboards change, so if a number fails, call 115. And one thing worth knowing before you need it: for major trauma or complex intensive care the region’s highest-level hospitals are in Bangkok and Singapore, which is a medical evacuation and needs a policy that covers one.

The 5 at a glance

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

The hospitals

Which hospital should I go to?

With insurance, or with anything complicated, go to Vinmec Da Nang: it is the one hospital in the city built around foreign patients, and the one most likely to deal directly with an insurer. Without insurance, or with anything genuinely serious, Da Nang Hospital is where the specialists and the intensive care actually are, at state prices — expect crowds and Vietnamese paperwork. For a minor illness or injury in the city, Hoan My Da Nang is quicker and far cheaper than Vinmec and open around the clock. A sick child or a pregnancy problem goes to the Hospital for Women and Children, out towards the Marble Mountains. Staying in Hoi An, Hoi An Regional Medical Center is a hundred beds a few streets from the Old Town — right for stitches and drips, not for anything major. In a life-or-death emergency, call 115.

What will it cost?

Three tiers, and the gaps between them are wide. At Da Nang Hospital and the other state hospitals a foreigner pays more than a Vietnamese patient covered by national health insurance, but still very little by Western standards: a consultation with basic tests and medicine usually comes to less than a night in a mid-range hotel, and even a short admission is affordable in cash. Hoan My, a Vietnamese private hospital, charges several times that for the same outpatient visit and expects a deposit if you are admitted. Vinmec is the international tier and is priced accordingly — commonly ten to twenty times a state hospital for comparable treatment, which is money well spent with a policy behind you and painful without one. Ask for a written estimate before any procedure at any of them, and keep every receipt.

Insurance, deposits and paperwork

Vinmec is the hospital here genuinely set up to bill an insurer, and even there direct billing depends on your insurer holding a contract with it; everywhere else, and for almost all outpatient care, you pay and claim. If there is time, phone the assistance number on your policy before you go — it can name a hospital and open the claim. Take your passport, your policy number and any medication you are on. After a scooter accident take the rental agreement and your licence as well: insurers routinely refuse motorbike claims from riders without a licence valid for the machine they were on, and that is not a technicality here, because a motorbike injury is one of the two commonest reasons a visitor to Vietnam is admitted. Ask for an itemised receipt and an English-language medical certificate before you leave; both are far harder to obtain afterwards.

Getting there and ambulances

The national ambulance number is 115. It is free to call, but the public service is thin, slow in traffic, and will take you to the nearest state hospital rather than the one you might have chosen. Vinmec and Hoan My both run their own ambulances and will send one to the number on their pages. For anything that can wait ten minutes, a Grab or Xanh SM car is usually quicker than waiting for either, and far better than a motorbike taxi with an injury. Distances inside Da Nang are short: the central hospitals sit within about two kilometres of the Han River bridges and the airport is four kilometres from Da Nang Hospital. From Hoi An, allow three quarters of an hour to an hour by road, and longer through the late-afternoon crush on the coast road.

Hoi An, the beaches and getting to Da Nang

Hoi An Regional Medical Center is a hundred-bed public hospital a few streets from the Old Town, and it is the right first stop for a cut, a burn, a stomach bug or a night on a drip. It is not equipped for major trauma or complex surgery, and serious cases go the thirty kilometres north to Da Nang — three quarters of an hour to an hour by road. Work that out before you need it, particularly if you are riding: the coast road between the two towns and the lanes around An Bang and Cua Dai produce a steady stream of scooter injuries, most to visitors on rented bikes. For the very top end, the region’s highest-level intensive care and major trauma surgery are in Bangkok and Singapore, about two hours away by air. That is a medical evacuation, and it costs tens of thousands of dollars unless a policy is paying for it.

Pharmacies

For a cold, a stomach upset, a rash or sunburn you do not need a hospital at all. Vietnamese pharmacies are everywhere, cheap, and sell most everyday medicines over the counter; the chains — Pharmacity, Long Chau, An Khang — keep long hours in Da Nang, and small independents sit on almost every block in Hoi An. Pharmacists often speak some English, and writing down what you need helps. Check expiry dates and buy sealed boxes. One thing a pharmacy cannot settle: dengue is present on this coast and is, with scooter injuries, the commonest reason a visitor ends up admitted. A fever that lasts more than two days, especially with headache behind the eyes or aching joints, needs a blood test at a hospital rather than another box of paracetamol.

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