Philippines produces and exports hundreds and thousands of doctors, nurses, midwives, and health care aides each year. The U.S., U.K., Canada, and the Middle East are among the top importers of said highly-skilled professionals. Yet, hospitals and other health care institutions in the country may not be enough to accommodate these ever growing number of professionals, and so apart from monetary reasons, many of them faced and still are facing a dilemma, and instead resort to finding a job somewhere else.

Thailand’s Bumrungrad Hospital, operated by Bumrungrad International, is to expand its Asian Hospital in Manila in order to meet the growing demand for private health care in the Philippines. It was estimated that the said hospital operator is to spend about PHP 318 million or THB 255 million for the said expansion. When completed, there would one more new house for our medical practitioners to stay in. The new expansion will involve a 14-storey tower housing more clinics, therapeutic services, and in-patient rooms. The future growth of the Asian Hospital would make it a center of medical services in the Philippines and the region.

Bumrungrad assumed management control of the Asian Hospital in 2005 and implemented new management systems, new clinical programmes, and cost control measures, and is now operating at near capacity.