8 Best Children's Hospitals and Paediatric Clinics in Bangkok
Bangkok's children's care includes private children's centres, a stand-alone children's hospital and a national public institute. Compare night cover and ICUs. Check services, staff, fees and availability with each provider before you book.
Night cover differs: some children's centres stay open late or overnight, while others send children to the main emergency department.
Samitivej's Srinakarin children's hospital and the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health treat children only.
Several hospitals keep children coming for vaccines apart from sick ones; ask about it if that matters to you.
Published vaccine package prices may exclude doctor's and hospital fees, so ask what a visit adds.
Our method for this page
We read each provider's own web pages on children's hospitals and paediatric clinics in Bangkok and kept only statements we could trace to a source. Nobody paid to be included, and the list is not a quality ranking. Criteria:
Paediatric emergency cover
Paediatric subspecialties
Vaccination services
Language support
Listed in no order of quality
The children's hospitals and paediatric clinics in Bangkok
Bumrungrad's Children's Center, on the 17th floor of Building A, is open 07:00–20:00 every day, and the hospital says paediatric specialists from various fields are available around the clock. The centre lists 73 doctors, covering subspecialties from cardiology, neurology and endocrinology to haematology and oncology, infectious disease, critical care, neonatology, paediatric surgery and child and adolescent psychiatry.
There are 16 outpatient rooms, with five rooms for check-ups and vaccinations kept apart from sick children. The hospital's factsheet lists Level IV neonatal intensive care and paediatric intensive care, plus neonatal critical care transport. A Special Needs Children Development Center and a Children's Eye Center share the 17th floor. Out of hours, the route in is the hospital's 24-hour Emergency Center; no separate children's emergency department is described.
It may suit families who want many subspecialists in one place, and the hospital's 130-plus interpreters.
JCI clinical care programme certifications (stroke, acute coronary syndrome, lung cancer, orthogeriatric; listed to 2027)
The Child's Health Center is on the 4th floor of the Bangkok Hospital Building and sees babies to adolescents. It has more than 50 paediatric specialists, specialist nurses and therapists, and 20 examination rooms that the hospital says are available 24 hours. A paediatric emergency service and a 24-hour paediatric transfer service are listed. Specialists cover gastroenterology, respiratory, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, haematology, oncology, psychiatry and dentistry.
The NICU takes premature, low or high birth-weight babies and twins, with high-frequency ventilators and nitric oxide, and the PICU treats children after heart, brain or other surgery. A development clinic assesses children from one month to five years. Published prices include a four-strain flu vaccine for children aged 7 months to 14 years at 1,350 baht.
It may suit families who want round-the-clock paediatric cover and intensive care at a large central hospital.
Worth confirming: The centre's listed hours (08:00–20:00) differ from its 24-hour examination rooms; at night, ask whether to go to the centre or the emergency department.
Samitivej runs its Children's Hospital on two campuses, and the Sukhumvit branch sits inside the main hospital on Soi 49. The group says the two branches together have more than 150 specialist medical professionals and offer tertiary treatment and surgery, including operations on the brain, urinary tract and heart in children.
The Sukhumvit branch lists a NICU for newborns up to one month old and a PICU for older infants, and an air transfer service for complex cases. The hospital's Trauma Center, on the 1st floor of Building 3, is open 24 hours and lists 24-hour paediatric emergency care among its services. The hospital offers free interpreters in several languages during normal hours.
No vaccination packages or children's prices are published for this branch. It may suit families living along Sukhumvit who want newborn and paediatric intensive care in the same hospital as adult emergency services.
Worth confirming: The trauma page covers both campuses and the children's hospital website mainly describes Srinakarin; confirm which paediatric subspecialists see children at Sukhumvit.
BNH is a private hospital in Silom that has treated Bangkok's foreign residents since 1898 and lists paediatrics, with women's health and maternity, among its strengths. Its emergency department treats adults and children 24 hours a day and says it can call on every specialty in the hospital at any time. A 24/7 ambulance with an emergency physician and nurse covers Bangkok.
Newborn care is closely tied to the maternity service: the labour unit has a neonatal paediatrician on hand alongside the obstetrician and anaesthetist, and a NICU cares for babies who need intensive care. The hospital also runs an Asthma & Allergy Centre. The emergency page lists interpreting in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Scandinavian languages, Japanese, Cantonese and Mandarin.
It may suit families in central Bangkok who want a smaller hospital used to treating expatriates, with children seen in the emergency department at any hour.
Worth confirming: BNH's website gives little detail on its paediatric clinic; ask which subspecialists see children, and for vaccination package prices, before booking.
MedPark's Pediatric Center, on the 8th floor at counters A and B, sees children from birth to 15 and is open 07:00–20:00. Its list of subspecialties is long: cardiology, nephrology, allergy and immunology, endocrinology, neurology, pulmonology and critical care, gastroenterology, infectious disease, genetics, oncology and haematology, psychiatry, developmental paediatrics and paediatric surgery. Nutritionists, speech therapists and child development specialists support the doctors.
Babies coming for vaccines or check-ups wait in a separate area, there is a private breastfeeding room, and a negative-pressure room limits the spread of airborne infection. The hospital has a NICU and a PICU with critical-care nurse specialists on duty around the clock. Baby vaccination packages cost 14,000 to 16,600 baht depending on the starting age, with pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines priced separately.
It may suit families who want published vaccine prices and a wide range of subspecialists.
NICU and PICU
Published baby vaccination packages
Separate well-baby area
Negative-pressure room
8th floor, counters A and BDaily 07:00–20:00+66 2 090 3138
Worth confirming: Package prices exclude doctor's and hospital fees, cannot be paid by insurance and are non-refundable; ask what the visit fees add.
JCI Clinical Care Program Certification (fertility centre)
Phyathai 2's Child and Adolescent Health Center says it operates 24 hours a day, with paediatric specialists covering newborns to adolescents and conditions from minor illness to those needing close monitoring. It has 23 examination rooms, a breastfeeding room, an infant room and a play zone, and vaccinations are given in a separate zone for healthy children.
Subspecialty clinics cover cardiology, haematology, respiratory, neurology, development and growth, endocrinology and diabetes, kidney and urology, allergy, gastroenterology, dermatology, paediatric surgery, child and adolescent psychiatry and newborns. Linked services include a 24-hour Pediatric ICU Center, a Child Development Center, a cerebral palsy programme and a Bone Marrow Transplant Center. No prices are published on the centre's page.
It may suit families in northern Bangkok who want a children's centre that stays open through the night.
This is a stand-alone children's hospital on the Samitivej Srinakarin campus, in an eight-storey building opened in 2025 with 111 paediatric beds. Its Pediatric Emergency Medicine Center, on the 2nd floor of Building 2, is open 24 hours, and the hospital says its emergency staff trained in paediatric emergency medicine with Oregon Health & Science University in the US. A burns unit and a transport team with ground and air ambulances are listed alongside it.
The NICU on the 5th floor of Building B runs 24 hours with a neonatologist in the nursery and one nurse per baby, and parents may visit at any time. A PICU, newborn and paediatric surgery, and bone marrow transplantation are also published. The General Pediatric and Well Baby Clinic covers newborns to 15-year-olds, giving the vaccines required by the Ministry of Public Health plus optional rotavirus, flu and pneumococcal vaccines.
No prices are shown on the clinic pages. It may suit families in eastern Bangkok who want a hospital built for children, with emergency and intensive care on site.
24-hour paediatric emergency centre
NICU with one nurse per baby
111 paediatric beds
Ground and air paediatric transport
Emergency: Building 2, 2nd floor; Well Baby Clinic: Building B, 3rd floorEmergency 24 hours; Well Baby Clinic 07:00–16:00 daily+66 2 378 9420
Worth confirming: The well-baby clinic closes at 16:00; for routine vaccinations in the evening, ask whether the night clinic (20:00–22:00) can give them.
The Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health is a public hospital for children only, and takes referrals from hospitals across Thailand. Its clinic list covers almost every paediatric subspecialty, from allergy, cardiology and haematology-oncology to neurology, kidney disease and child psychiatry, plus an accident and emergency service and a well-child clinic. A 24-hour call centre answers on 1415.
The newborn centre of excellence has 50 beds, including a NICU on the 9th floor and two intermediate-care wards, and takes very premature and critically ill babies referred from public and private hospitals. Six full-time neonatologists and 61 specialist neonatal nurses are listed, with neonatologists available for advice around the clock. Other centres of excellence cover children's heart disease, neonatal surgery, infectious disease, and development and behaviour.
No fees are listed online. It may suit families who need complex specialist care, particularly for a sick newborn or a child with a heart condition.
50-bed newborn service with NICU
National referral centre for sick newborns
Children's heart centre of excellence
24-hour call centre 1415
NICU: Institute building, 9th floorCall centre 24 hours1415
Worth confirming: Registration, including the online form for new patients, is in Thai; ask a Thai speaker to help you register before the first visit.
How to compare children's hospitals and paediatric clinics in Bangkok
Most families need two things from children's healthcare: a dependable place for routine visits and vaccinations, and a hospital that can cope with a feverish toddler at 2am or a newborn who needs intensive care. In Thailand these are not always the same place. Many private hospitals have a children's centre with long opening hours, but fewer publish a dedicated paediatric emergency room or a paediatric intensive care unit.
This guide covers when to see a paediatrician, what to check in a hospital, how Thai vaccination schedules compare with your home country's, well-child checks, language, insurance and the records to keep. It is general information, not medical advice: your child's doctor is the right person to advise on their care.
Paediatrician or general practitioner
In many countries a family doctor or general practitioner sees children first and refers them on. In Thailand, private hospitals usually let parents book a paediatrician directly, and most children's centres are staffed by paediatricians rather than general doctors. For a child with a long-term condition, such as asthma, epilepsy or a heart problem, ask whether a subspecialist in that field works at the hospital, or only visits on certain days.
A doctor's licence and recorded specialty can be checked on the Medical Council of Thailand's public lookup. If a hospital says a doctor is a paediatric subspecialist, it is reasonable to ask where they trained in that subspecialty.
Choosing a hospital for children
Look past the outpatient centre to what happens when a child is seriously ill. Some hospitals run a separate paediatric emergency room with paediatricians on site all night; others see children in the main emergency department and call a paediatrician in. Both can work well, but you should know which you are choosing. Ask in particular:
Whether a paediatrician is on site in the emergency department overnight, or on call from home
Whether the hospital has a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and from what age the PICU takes children
Where children who need more than the hospital can offer are transferred, and how
Whether well children coming for vaccines wait apart from sick children
How late the children's centre is open, and whether evening clinics can give routine vaccines
Vaccination schedules in Thailand and at home
Thailand's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) is run by the Ministry of Public Health and fully funded by the government. WHO, which reviewed the programme with the ministry in September 2025, describes it as providing 13 vaccine antigens for children, pregnant women and adults. Thai hospitals generally offer two groups of vaccines: the core vaccines in the national programme, and optional ones recommended by Thai paediatric bodies, such as rotavirus, pneumococcal and flu vaccines. Some private hospitals publish both lists on their children's pages.
Schedules differ between countries in the vaccines included, the ages at which doses are given and the brands used. The UK, for example, publishes its routine schedule on GOV.UK and updates it often. If you will return home, or move on, bring your home country's schedule to the first appointment and ask the paediatrician to plan doses so your child is not missing any, or getting extras, when you leave. Ask too about vaccines common in Thailand but not at home, such as Japanese encephalitis.
Well-child checks and development
Well-child visits are usually timed alongside vaccinations in the first two years, and cover growth, feeding, hearing, vision and development. Many hospitals offer development screening for babies and preschool children, and some sell check-up packages for school-age children. Before buying a package, ask what each test is for and whether the paediatrician thinks your child needs it; a longer list of tests is not necessarily better.
If a check raises a concern about speech, motor skills or behaviour, ask whether the hospital has developmental paediatricians and therapists on site, how long the wait is, and whether reports can be written in English for a school or for doctors at home.
Language and communication
Children cannot always describe symptoms, so clear communication between parents and staff matters more than usual. Ask whether the paediatrician will see you in your language, whether interpreters are available at night and at weekends, and whether there is a charge. Make sure dosing instructions for any medicine are written down in a language you can read, with the strength of the liquid stated, because children's doses depend on weight.
Insurance for children
There is no reciprocal healthcare agreement between Thailand and the UK, and the UK government advises British residents to hold health insurance to cover treatment costs. Check whether your policy covers routine care such as vaccines and well-child visits, or only illness and hospital stays. Ask too whether a newborn is added to a parent's policy automatically, whether there is a waiting period, and whether conditions present from birth are covered.
Vaccine packages from private hospitals are often excluded from insurance, may exclude doctor's and hospital fees, and may be non-refundable. Before an admission, ask the hospital whether it can bill your insurer directly or will ask for a deposit.
What to keep in your child's medical file
Families who travel or move between countries often lose track of what has been done where. GOV.UK publishes guidance for health professionals on vaccinating people whose immunisation history is uncertain or incomplete, which may mean repeating doses if records are missing. Keep a single folder, paper or digital, with:
The vaccination record, with dates, vaccine names and batch numbers, in English
Birth summary, including gestation, birth weight and any neonatal care
Growth charts and well-child check results
A list of conditions, allergies and current medicines with doses
Discharge summaries and specialist letters
Insurance details and your paediatrician's contact information
Questions to ask before you book
Is a paediatrician on site in the emergency department overnight, or on call?
Do you have a NICU and a PICU, and what age range does the PICU take?
Where would you transfer a child who needs care you cannot provide?
Do well children coming for vaccines wait separately from sick children?
Which vaccines in this package are part of the Thai national programme, and which are optional?
Can you plan my child's vaccines to match our home country's schedule?
Does the package price include doctor's and hospital fees?
Will the same paediatrician see my child at each visit?
Can my child be seen in my language, including at night?
Will you give me an English vaccination record and reports to take home?
Do you bill my insurer directly for children's admissions?
Warning signs
No clear answer about who sees children in the emergency department at night.
Vague replies about intensive care for newborns or older children, or where they would be transferred.
Vaccine or check-up packages with no written list of what is included and excluded.
Pressure to buy extra tests or vaccines without an explanation of why your child needs them.
Medicine dosing instructions given only verbally, or in a language you cannot read.
Reluctance to hand over vaccination records or test results.
Where can I take a sick child at night in Bangkok?
Samitivej's Srinakarin children's hospital runs a 24-hour paediatric emergency centre, and Phyathai 2 says its children's centre operates 24 hours, though another of its pages gives 06:30–22:00, so call first. Elsewhere, children are seen in the hospital's 24-hour emergency department. In an emergency, call 1669.
Which Bangkok hospitals have a paediatric intensive care unit?
Bumrungrad, Bangkok Hospital, MedPark, Phyathai 2 and Samitivej publish paediatric intensive care, and most of them also list a NICU. Ask from what age the PICU takes children and where they transfer cases they cannot manage.
Is the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health open to foreign families?
It is a public hospital for children that takes referrals from across Thailand, with a 24-hour call centre on 1415. Registration, including the new-patient form, is in Thai and fees are not listed online, so bring a Thai speaker and ask about charges for patients without Thai cover.
Are children's vaccines at Bangkok private hospitals covered by insurance?
Often not. MedPark states that its baby vaccination packages cannot be paid by insurance, exclude doctor's and hospital fees and are non-refundable. Check your policy's cover for routine care and ask the hospital for the full cost.
About the writer and reviewer
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Naruemon Chaiyasit
Health writer
Writes Thai Clinic Guide's guides and comparisons, collecting each fact from the provider's own pages and noting where it came from.
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Anucha Prasertkul
Health writer and reviewer
Reads each page against its sources before it is published and checks that nothing reads as personal advice.
This page sets out published information and is not medical advice. Speak to a doctor before you choose treatment. Our method.
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