Bangkok Health, Fitness & Beauty

Information on how to proceed if you need to report the death of a family member in Bangkok. Also information on the repatriation of remains for a burial or cremation outside Thailand.

Emergency services: the numbers to call for Fire, Police and Ambulance. Also drug help, poisons and emergency doctors, hospitals and blood transfusion services. Plus Consular contacts: where to call if you need your country's help.

Where or how to find a physician: general practitioner, paediatrician, gynaecologist or surgeon in Bangkok who speaks your language.

The administrative details you need to know if you are giving birth in Thailand. Who to contact and what to expect from the Thai system: maternity leave, midwives, vaccinations and registering the birth.

Information on the Thai health system, hospitals and clinics and health insurance, with details on who benefits, where and how to register and what contributions and benefits to expect. Also information on medical tourism in Thailand.

Bangkok is a world centre for medical tourism. Find out about the centres and hospitals qualified to perform necessary as well as elective procedures, including those in paediatrics, cosmetic surgery, cancer treatment, orthopaedics, dentistry and more.

Overview of where to go and what to do if you are mobility, sight or hearing impaired - a wheelchair or cane user - and living in or visiting Bangkok. Information on the Thai organisations and facilities.

English-speaking support groups and meetings for AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) following the 12 Steps programme, drug aid, cancer support meetings, AIDS and more. See this page for contact information.

Abortion in Thailand is illegal except in very specific cases: where the mother's life, or physical or mental health is at risk, and when the pregnancy is the result of incest or rape. There are family planning clinics throughout the country.