Care AbroadCities (41)
The clusters: a street of dental surgeries, a hospital district, a corridor of hair clinics.
Colombia (2)
Bogota, Santafé de Bogotá, Distrito Capital
Colombia's capital and largest city, the country's medical as well as political centre, sitting at 2,640 metres on the Bogotá savanna.
Medellin, the Aburrá Valley
Colombia's second city, 2.4 million people at the 2018 census in the Aburrá Valley, and the country's cosmetic surgery capital.
Costa Rica (1)
San José, the Central Valley
Costa Rica's capital, in the Central Valley, with a municipal population of about 352,000 and a metropolitan area of more than two million.
Cuba (1)
La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana
Cuba's capital, about two million people, and the only hub in this directory where every hospital and clinic is state-owned.
Cyprus (1)
Lefkosia, Λευκωσία, Lefkoşa
A capital of 111,797 in its municipality and 256,119 across its urban area, cut through the middle by the United Nations buffer zone — the Green Line, named for the colour of the pen a UN officer drew it with.
Czechia (1)
Praha
A capital of 1,407,084 people at the start of 2026, administered in 10 municipal and 22 administrative districts, with the fertility clinics that draw foreign patients spread across the inner districts — Vinohrady…
Dominican Rep. (1)
Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Distrito Nacional
The capital of the Dominican Republic, founded 1496 and the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, with just over a million people in the city centre and 4.27 million in Greater Santo Domingo…
Egypt (1)
القاهرة, Greater Cairo
A city of about 9.8 million in 2023 inside a metropolitan area of more than 22 million, with the clinics that take foreign patients spread across the twentieth-century districts — Garden City, Zamalek, Heliopolis and…
Georgia (1)
თბილისი, Tiflis
A capital of 1,369,400 people whose private clinics concentrate in Vake and Saburtalo, with Vera and Mtatsminda between them and the older hospital estate scattered across the city.
Hungary (2)
Buda and Pest
A capital of 1,685,209 people split by the Danube into hilly Buda and flat Pest, administered in 23 districts written in Roman numerals.
Ödenburg
A Hungarian border town of 62,116 people, 70 km from Vienna and 77 km from Bratislava, whose economy carries an unusual weight of dental surgeries — Wikipedia puts it at more than 300 and repeats the trade's name for…
India (4)
ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು, Bangalore
Two poles, about twenty kilometres apart. Narayana Health City stands on Hosur Road at Bommasandra, on the far southern edge of the city beyond the Electronics City corridor, where Devi Prasad Shetty put a 280-bed…
சென்னை, Madras
The Chennai cluster runs west from Greams Road in Thousand Lights, where Apollo's first hospital opened in 1983, out along Anna Salai and then to the hospitals on the city's western edge — Sri Ramachandra at Porur, MIOT…
National Capital Region, Delhi, Gurugram
Not a district but a triangle, roughly forty kilometres on a side.
मुंबई, Bombay
Mumbai's medicine runs north to south along the island city. Tata Memorial Hospital stands in Parel, where it has been since 1941, and is the reason people travel to this city at all; Hinduja is at Mahim and Lilavati at…
Israel (1)
Tel Aviv-Yafo, תל אביב-יפו
A city of 494,900 people whose inbound medical work runs through large public teaching hospitals rather than through a clinic strip.
Jordan (1)
عمّان
A capital of some five million people as of 2024, whose private hospitals sit in the modern western half of the city — the economic side, against the historic east — with the King Hussein Cancer Center on Queen Rania…
Lithuania (1)
Wilno, Vilna
A capital of 619,405 people in mid-2026, administered in twenty elderships, with the private clinics that take foreign patients in and around Naujamiestis and the streets north of the Old Town, and the large public…
Malaysia (2)
KL, Klang Valley
The Klang Valley cluster is spread across two states. Gleneagles Kuala Lumpur stands on Jalan Ampang at Ampang Hilir, on the eastern edge of the city; Prince Court Medical Centre sits off Jalan Bukit Bintang beside the…
George Town, Pulau Pinang, 槟城
The tightest cluster in this batch. Island Hospital stands at 308 Jalan Macalister in central George Town, a 600-bed hospital opened in 1996 and building toward a thousand; Gleneagles Penang is 600 metres north-west at…
Mexico (5)
Cancun, Benito Juárez
The largest city in Quintana Roo, on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, built in the 1970s as a resort and now carrying a second trade: dentistry and cosmetic surgery sold to people who were flying here…
Algodones, Molar City
A town of a few square blocks in the north-east corner of Baja California, pressed against the Colorado River and the Arizona line, where several hundred dental surgeries, opticians and pharmacies trade almost entirely…
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Monterrey, Nuevo León, MTY
The capital of Nuevo León, a few hours' drive south of the Texas border, anchoring Mexico's second-largest metropolitan area at some 5.3 million people and a city its Wikipedia article calls the richest in Latin…
Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas, Progreso
A town in Río Bravo Municipality, Tamaulipas, at the Mexican end of a road bridge over the Rio Grande.
TJ, Tijuana, Baja California
A city of roughly 2.3 million on the Pacific end of the Mexico–United States border, sharing about 24 kilometres of line with San Diego.
Panama (1)
Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá
Panama's capital and, for this subject, the whole of the country: 410,354 people in the city proper at the 2023 census, 2,100,189 in the metropolitan area, a US-dollar economy and a hub airport at Tocumen.
Poland (1)
Warszawa
A capital of 1,866,729 people at the end of 2025, laid out in 18 districts, with the private clinics that take foreign patients concentrated in central Śródmieście and in Mokotów, Wola and Ochota around it.
Singapore (1)
Orchard medical belt, Novena health city, 新加坡
Two clusters, four minutes apart on the subway. The Orchard belt holds Mount Elizabeth Hospital at 3 Mount Elizabeth in Cairnhill, 345 beds, open since 8 December 1979, and Gleneagles Hospital at 6 Napier Road in…
South Africa (1)
Jozi, Joburg, eGoli
A city of 4,803,262 at the 2022 census, whose private hospital sector is concentrated in the northern suburbs — Sandton, which the city calls Africa's richest square mile, Rosebank beside it, and Parktown and Houghton…
South Korea (1)
서울, Gangnam, 강남
The cosmetic trade occupies a few blocks of Gangnam-gu south of the Han river: Apgujeong-ro and the Garosu-gil end of Sinsa-dong, running east through Cheongdam, with the Gangnam-gu Office's own medical-travel desk on…
Spain (1)
Barna
A city of 1,686,208 people in ten districts, with the private fertility clinics that draw foreign patients spread through Eixample and Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, and the large teaching hospitals — the Clínic in Eixample, Sant…
Sri Lanka (1)
කොළඹ, கொழும்பு
Sri Lanka's private hospitals sit almost entirely in Colombo and its suburbs, and several of them cluster in Narahenpita — Asiri, Asiri Surgical, Oasis and Ninewells among them.
Taiwan (1)
臺北, Taipei City
Taipei's large hospitals are strung down the middle of the city from north to south.
Thailand (3)
กรุงเทพมหานคร, Krung Thep, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
The private-hospital quarter of Bangkok runs along two corridors about four kilometres apart.
เชียงใหม่, Chiangmai
Thailand's second cluster, and the one that sells the long stay rather than the flight in and out.
ภูเก็ต, Phuket Town, Mueang Phuket
A small cluster on the eastern side of Phuket island, in and just outside Phuket Town.
Tunisia (1)
تونس
A capital of 693,210 people, 2,885,040 across its metropolitan area, administered in fifteen municipal districts including El Menzah and the Medina.
Turkey (3)
Antalya clinic-and-hotel belt
A Turkish Mediterranean city of 2,722,103 people in its metropolitan area, whose private clinics sit in the central Muratpaşa district and along the hotel strip at Lara, a short transfer from an airport that in 2020…
İstanbul, Şişli–Nişantaşı clinic belt
A clinic belt on the European side of Istanbul, thickest in Şişli — ten square kilometres holding 276,528 residents and the quarters of Nişantaşı, Teşvikiye, Pangaltı and Mecidiyeköy — and running north through Levent…
Izmir, Smyrna
An Aegean city of 2,938,292 people, whose clinics cluster in the old centre at Konak and in Bornova, where Ege University sits, with a thermal strand 8 km west at Balçova.
United Arab Emirates (1)
Dubai Healthcare City, DHCC, دبي
A designated healthcare free zone with its own regulator, and a city of clinics around it.