Health Promotion Center

Health check-up services are available within the hospital for individuals aged 15 and above:

• Personalized health checkup
• Pre-insurance health checkup
• Health examination for work permit
• Pre-university medical examination for universities in Thailand and abroad
• Adult vaccination services (pre-exposure) including pre-travel vaccines
• General pre-travel counseling, malarial chemoprophylaxis, and preventive measures of altitude illness.  (Please check the examination schedule and make an appointment with the doctor in advance. Examinations will be conducted at the Health Promotion Center of Bangkok Hospital Pattaya on Saturdays. Additionally, Telemedicine visits are available from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Mondays through Wednesdays.)
• Occupational health checkup
• Pre-employment Medical
• Fitness for specific job assessment: Confined space worker, Working at height, Food handlers, Crane operator ,Firefighter
• Offshore medical
• Seafarer’s medical
• Periodic medical examination (on-site and mobile) for contracted company
• Specific medical examination according to company requirements

• Knowing your body is functioning correctly
• An early detection of diseases before any symptoms develop and therapy can be started early
• Receiving medical counseling related to general healthful habit and what to do for particular diseases or conditions identified during check-up.

• Inform the registration personnel that you are here for a check-up. You will be directed to the Health Promotion Center.
• A sample of blood and urine will be taken. A chest x-ray and an E.K.G. (if required) will be taken. The above procedure usually takes about thirty minutes.
• A physician will meet with you after all lab and x-ray results are available to advise you of the findings.
• After the initial check-up session, you may be referred to see a specialist for your specific findings on the same day or an appointment will be made at a time more convenient (additional fees and expenses may apply).

• Arrive early on the day.
• Do not eat or drink (other than water) after midnight.

What is a travel health service?
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of health problems associated with travel. The emerging virus affects not only individual travelers, but also community and public health globally. In addition to COVID-19, traveling from one place to another with different geography and disease endemic can put the travelers at risk, both infectious and non-infectious diseases. Most of them can be prevented or alleviated.

Travel medicine has been adopted as a multidisciplinary specialty and services within medical care providers. International travelers embarking on trips abroad for purposes related to leisure, business, visiting friends and family might be required to be immunized against yellow fever or other preventable tropical diseases. They might be at risk of travel-related conditions such as malaria or altitude illness. Our center primarily focuses on providing preventive measures, administering vaccinations and chemoprophylaxis against the disease in Thailand and elsewhere. To ensure the best efficacy of preventive measures, it is recommended that pre-travel consultation should be made at least 6-8 weeks before your trip.

Our service

• Consultation and counseling before traveling.
• Immunization and certificates of immunization.
• Health checkup and medical certificate for students/workers who travel abroad.
• Tuberculin skin test (Mantoux test) and blood for interferon-gamma release assay (IGRAs)
• Preventative measures for other travel-related diseases such as altitude illness.
• Malaria prevention and prophylaxis.
• Information for tropical diseases and emerging diseases.

Required documents

• Identification card (National ID card, passport)
• Travel itinerary
• Medical certificate form or requirement from your company, agency, embassy or educational institute (Please carefully check if our hospital is eligible to provide certification)
• Childhood and previous vaccination record (if available)
• Current medications

Asst. Prof. Vorapot Sapsirisavat, M.D.
Preventive medicine  (Travel medicine)