Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS) and Russia's Medsi Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand cooperation between the two largest private healthcare providers in Thailand and Russia. The agreement was formalised at Medsi Group's headquarters in Moscow. Medsi Group President, Mr. A.G. Sokolov, and BDMS Senior Vice President of International Marketing, Advertising & PR, Mr. Buranut Limjitti, signed the agreement.
The MoU outlines key areas of collaboration including medical cooperation, teleconsultation, second opinion services, continuous care and medical tourism. The partnership seeks to enhance access to high quality international medical services for Russian patients both when they are in Thailand and when they return to Russia.
As Thailand’s largest private healthcare system with a network of 58 hospitals together with wellness clinics and a range of non-hospital businesses, BDMS is ideally placed to take care of Russian patients both residents and visitors to Thailand. BDMS has a very strong dominant network of healthcare facilities in the most popular destinations for Russian citizens, including Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya, and Koh Samui.
In addition to treating elective cases BDMS also has the only private trauma network in place across Thailand, which means that for both urgent medical needs as well as life-threatening emergencies, Russian patients may feel confident in the ability of BDMS to take care of them wherever they may find themselves in Thailand. The 24-hour BDMS Medevac Centre, that may be reached at 1724, not only takes care of coordinating emergency response but also manages repatriation of patients back to Russia, if required.
The MEDSI Group is a leading federal network of private medical clinics that provides a full range of medical services – from initial and emergency medical care to high-tech diagnostics, complex surgical interventions and medical rehabilitation. MEDSI Group includes 148 medical clinics in Russia. Among them are 69 clinics in Moscow and the Moscow region (primary admission clinics, clinical diagnostic centres, children's clinics, clinical hospitals, SmartLab digital clinics), and 79 clinics in Russian regions. The assets of MEDSI Group also include a medical house-call health care service. More than 15,000 people work at MEDSI, including at least 5,000 doctors.