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.



