This state-run hospital has a reputable foreigners’ wing with departments including ENT, internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, dental, ophthalmology and OB/GYN. Most doctors are trained overseas and speak good English. Services and medicines are much cheaper than in private clinics, but expect longer waiting times. The birthing unit is considered to be the best in any of the Chinese hospitals and is popular among expats. Registration costs RMB 100-300, and the minimum consultation fee is RMB 200. Inpatient services require a minimum deposit of RMB 10,000/day. Direct billing is available with some Asian insurance providers.
Peking Union Medical College Hospital 北京协和医院
Last updated on 3:30pm Thu Jun 10th, 2004
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- Wangfujing/Dongdan 王府井/东单
- 1 Shuaifuyuan, Wangfujing (the foreigners' wing is located behind and to the left of the main hospital entrance), Dongcheng District
- 东城区王府井帅府园1号（接待外国人的区域在主楼的左后方）
- Mon-Fri 8am5pm
- 6529 5284, 24hr em, 6529 5269
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You get what you pay for
Review of: Peking Union Medical College Hospital
We had our baby there a year ago this month, and while the price for the delivery and postnatal care was relatively inexpensive (all in all, we spent less than RMB 17,000, not counting prenatal), we found the nursing approach to be less than up to date (they basically left us in the room with our baby swaddled with little to no instruction, much less encouragement of breastfeeding).
The prenatal doctor we had was nice, but overworked (we typically waited at least an hour to an hour and a half to see her, and this was in the foreigner wing - shortest consultation time: literally 1.5 min), and we were even told by a previous doctor that we had to get an abortion when my wife told her she had gotten a chest x-ray shortly after we got pregnant (and before we knew) - an absolutely ludricous suggestion that makes me fume to this day.
My wife also found the operating doctors's bedside manner to be distressingly blase (one of the comments she overheard was one of them bitching about how her labor was cutting into their nightshift).
Problems aside, our baby is now healthy and happy, thank god for that.
Don't expect any five star treatment here - you get bare bones, albeit (semi)competent care.
You get what you pay for
Review of: Peking Union Medical College Hospital
We had our baby their a year ago this month, and while the price for the delivery and postnatal care was relatively inexpensive (all in all, we spent less than RMB 17,000, not counting prenatal), we found the nursing approach to be less than up to date (they basically left us in the room with our baby swaddled with little to no instruction, much less encouragement of breastfeeding).
The prenatal doctor we had was nice, but overworked (we typically waited at least an hour to an hour and a half to see her, and this was in the foreigner wing - shortest consultation time: literally 1.5 min), and we were even told by a previous doctor that we had to get an abortion when my wife told her she had gotten a chest x-ray shortly after we got pregnant (and before we knew) - an absolutely ludricous suggestion that makes me fume to this day.
My wife also found the operating doctors's bedside manner to be distressingly blase (one of the comments she overheard was one of them bitching about how her labor was cutting into their nightshift).
Problems aside, our baby is now healthy and happy, thank god for that.
Don't expect any five star treatment here - you get bare bones, albeit (semi)competent care.
