Guangdong’s first hospital for foreigners to open in Shekou in Shenzhen within 3 years
Posted: 02/19/2013 1:08 pmAn international hospital will be opened in Shenzhen’s expat-heavy Shekou area by 2016, Shenzhen Daily reports. Managed by a Singaporean company, it will service expats in Shenzhen who have overseas medical insurance cards.
It will be the first of its kind in Guangdong Province. The paper has more:
“The hospital will be located near Shenzhen Bay Yacht Club and completed around 2015 or 2016 if everything goes smoothly,” Ouyang Fang, a spokesperson for China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone, said yesterday.
Around a third of Shenzhen’s 400,000 expats live in Shekou. Two clinics in the area, SOS and Canam, offer only simple treatment.
Many expats encounter a language barrier and other problems at hospitals in the Pearl River Delta. You can read about one expat’s horror story in a local hospital here.
Many expats cross the border to Hong Kong for medical treatment, but this is expected to change when the international hospital opens.
Do you do the same? You may even have a positive experience in a Chinese hospital. If so, we’d like to hear it. 
