Thailand's Chularat Targets Chinese Couples Wanting Second Child
by Anuchit Nguyen

- Company to open fertility clinic as one-child policy ends
- Chularat sees revenue rising 20% this year as it adds beds

BANGKOK: -- Chularat Hospital Pcl, which runs health-care facilities in the provinces east of Bangkok, predicts revenue growth will accelerate as it adds beds and looks to attract Chinese couples to a new fertility clinic.

Revenue from hospital operations may rise at least 20 percent this year, up from 18 percent expansion in 2015, and the total number of beds will grow from around 300 to 500 by next month, said Managing Director Kumpol Plussind.

The company aims to open a fertility clinic in 2017 that will target an expected increase in demand from Chinese couples following the scrapping of Beijing’s one-child policy, he said.

Full story: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-25/thailand-s-chularat-targets-chinese-couples-wanting-second-child

-- Bloomberg 2016-04-25

Interesting but aren't there any fertility clinics in China? Why would Chinese couples need to travel to Thailand, where they don't have health insurance and can't speak the language and communicate with a doctor who's English might not even be that good (let alone that of the Chinese side)?

If this hospital wants to offer it's services to the Chinese market it might want to consider opening up a facility in China.

Fertlity clinic?

I'm sure the Chinese know how to make babies and now restrictions have been lifted in many regions of China for having a second child I see no reason why they should come here.

....hopefully it will be regulated......

Fertlity clinic?

I'm sure the Chinese know how to make babies and now restrictions have been lifted in many regions of China for having a second child I see no reason why they should come here.

Too right but realistically, the Chinese are not going to be cranking out babies just because they are allowed to have a second one now. As their economy becomes more developed, more and more females are delaying marriage and child bearing, with some putting it off altogether as they focus on their careers. That's if they can even find a husband, most are quite picky. There are also too many males to females, with the ratio being something like 117 males for every 100 females.