{"id":147991,"date":"2025-10-27T15:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/147991\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:34:18","slug":"playing-the-health-card-macau-gives-greater-bay-area-a-glimpse-of-its-health-hub-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/147991\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the health card: Macau gives Greater Bay Area a glimpse of its health hub future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a Sunday morning earlier this month, five friends from Bangkok stepped through the marble lobby of the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/magazines\/post-magazine\/travel-leisure\/article\/1913871\/macaus-larger-life-studio-city-leaving-guests?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Studio City Hotel<\/a> in Macau \u2013 the kind of place better known for gaming tables and stage shows than medical check-ups.Instead, they were heading to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/3328073\/macaus-studio-city-gets-worlds-first-resort-hospital-mri-and-ct-facilities?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">iRad Hospital<\/a>, tucked inside the resort complex, for a round of beauty treatments and wellness sessions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The women \u2013 Kwaisun Panchasarp, Nantanat Tejavibulya, Buyasakorn De Jesus and two friends \u2013 were in town with their families to catch the NBA Games and enjoy their first holiday together since the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis visit to iRad wasn\u2019t planned at all,\u201d said Nantanat. \u201cI\u2019d read about it online and thought it would be some nice \u2018me time\u2019 for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kwaisun, also a patient at iRad\u2019s Hong Kong clinic, said she was struck by how calm and welcoming the Macau branch felt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bangkok residents Nantanat Tejavibulya and Kwaisun Panchasarp booked beauty treatments at iRad Hospital while visiting Macau with their families. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b0aa2eaa-7d12-4be6-be2d-6d1293e41a94_89218599.jpg\" title=\"Bangkok residents Nantanat Tejavibulya and Kwaisun Panchasarp booked beauty treatments at iRad Hospital while visiting Macau with their families. Photo: Handout\"\/>Bangkok residents Nantanat Tejavibulya and Kwaisun Panchasarp booked beauty treatments at iRad Hospital while visiting Macau with their families. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe just wanted to relax and have some treatments,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen we come to Macau, we usually enjoy the food and the atmosphere \u2013 but now we also have iRad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a Sunday morning earlier this month, five friends from Bangkok stepped through the marble lobby of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[2786,87180,43444,87177,79171,381,568,18,87181,87179,43021,135,475,474,4202,19,87176,17,58129,9154,87178],"class_list":{"0":"post-147991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-asian-healthcare-sector","10":"tag-bangkok","11":"tag-black-spade","12":"tag-boston-consulting-group","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-covid-19-pandemic","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-foshan-fosun-chancheng-hospital","17":"tag-frank-hu","18":"tag-greater-bay-area","19":"tag-health","20":"tag-health-care","21":"tag-healthcare","22":"tag-hong-kong","23":"tag-ie","24":"tag-irad","25":"tag-ireland","26":"tag-macau","27":"tag-medical-tourism","28":"tag-studio-city"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115446865496275997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}