Thai Travel Clinic, Mahidol University

Thai Travel Clinic, Mahidol University

Our Travel Clinic located at Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Bangkok. It is the part of Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University. We are specialized in tropical disease esp malaria and in travel medicine. We provide comprehensive service in area of travel medicine including pre and post travel counseling, immunization, prophylaxis, and information on emerging disease. Apart form prevention and prophylaxis, we also provide medical care when you're sick.

          Thai Travel Clinic is a special clinic in Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Bangkok, Thailand. Our hospital has operated since 1961 and it was under administration of faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University. We are specialized in Tropical Medicine especially malaria diagnosis and treatment, parasitic diseases, other infectious diseases and also in Travel Medicine field. The hospital had a human resource complement of 31 medical doctors, 83 nurses and 81 nurse assistants. It has a 250 bed capacity and is equipped with facilities. Last year our hospital was able to attend to 30,894 out-patients and 2,279 in-patients. You can find more detail about our hospital and our faculty here.

          Every year, we have been consulted by travelers who visiting Thailand. Most of them ask us about malaria prevention and vaccination for travelers. The number of our clients is increasing every year. So last year we've re-organized and equipped our travel clinic with all necessary resources.

          Now we provide comprehensive services in area of travel/tropical medicine including pre and post travel counseling, immunization, prevention of malaria and information on emerging diseases. Since we link closely to the hospital system, we can provide the comprehensive medical care when you're sick both in-patient, and out-patient basis.

Services:

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Pre and Post travel counseling
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Vaccination and certification. view Price List
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Malaria prevention including prophylaxis recommendation
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Health check up and certificate
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On site vaccination are available on request
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Information center for tropical disease and emerging diseases
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Laboratory diagnostic test in malaria, parasitic infestation, dengue infection, and many tropical diseases.
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Treatment of medical disease

Service Hour - Monday - Friday 09.00am-04.00pm
Except Public Holiday.

Pre and Post travel counseling
         All travelers who have just arrived Thailand or will depart Thailand to specific country can request information about their recommendation on Traveling. We have all necessary information about Traveler's health, and we have online facility that can access data from CDC, WHO, MOPH.

Available Immunization
         We provide complete range of immunization and vaccination. All travelers who request for immunization should bring his/her medical immunization record and passport. Vaccination is given after counseling with our staff only.Price List click here.

Prophylaxis against Malaria
         Since malaria in Thailand and in Southeast Asia are the multidrug resistance strain. The used of antimalarial prophylaxis should be advised by the qualified medical staff only. Over-the-counter antimalarial drug is not recommended. In our clinic, we provide counseling on basic malaria information, epidemiology, how to prevent yourself from malaria and whether antimalarial drug is recommended for you. (More….)

Health check up and certificate
          Any persons who want to check up or need a health certificate can attend our clinic. We can provide standard physical examination, blood, urine exam and Chest X-ray. And health certificate is available after finished our process.

Laboratory diagnostic facility
          Our lab is available for malaria checking 24 hr a day. Moreover we have a full range of lab test such as CBC, Blood sugar, Lipid profile, Liver function test, and stool exam for parasite.

Treatment of Medical disease
          Our clinic is the part of Hospital for Tropical Diseases. We can provide a standard health care. If you get sick while in Thailand, such diarrhea or fever you can attend our clinic. But if there is an emergency condition or surgical / trauma case you must go to the nearest medical service.

What they call "Travel Clinic" is really just a system of preferred treatment for foreigners (at a higher price, of course) in the OPD of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

Do not expect any of the amenities of the posh international hospitals like Bumrungrad or Samitivej.
Prices are obviously a lot cheaper than there.

The standard of medical care is quite high but this is a Thai government hospital, after all. Do not expect batteries of tests for all possibilities like in the US (like the CT scan Bangkok Hospital did for diarrhea). They do a good job with limited resources.

The doctors there speak very good English, the nurses and administrative staff very little. Better bring a Thai speaker.

Edited by uhuh, 2007-12-20 01:12:57.