“Medical tourism brings capability in and can direct it away from domestic patients at the same time.”— PrideShow Editorial Board
BPS Clinic provides gender-affirming care and LGBTQ+ health services with internationally trained surgeons, positioned within Thailand's medical-tourism sector.
The clinic sits in the middle of a real tension. Medical tourism brings capability, investment and international standards into Thai healthcare; it can also direct the best specialists towards patients who can pay in foreign currency, while domestic public provision for Thai transgender patients remains uneven and frequently self-funded.
Eighth at 75 points. Providers serving both populations well are the ones that resolve that tension rather than trading on it, and that balance is worth tracking in future editions.