{"id":326839,"date":"2026-02-08T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/326839\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:51:09","slug":"foreigners-flock-to-china-for-affordable-medical-treatment-drawn-by-free-visa-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/326839\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners flock to China for affordable medical treatment, drawn by free visa policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The increasing flow of foreign travellers to China in recent years has been given a shot in the arm with many people coming to the country to seek medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The trend has attracted attention online recently after overseas bloggers shared their experiences of visiting Chinese hospitals.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A prominent case involved a British woman called Amie who told of her trip to China in December, to treat her long-standing stomach problem.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She said she could not see a doctor because of long waiting lists in the UK\u2019s public healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Amie flew to Beijing and made an appointment at a major hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"This composite image shows eight people who have travelled to China for medical treatment. Photo: Baidu\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/73029d32-4c0b-4d2f-86da-ec0d896c3bf0_c783d1e7.jpg\" title=\"This composite image shows eight people who have travelled to China for medical treatment. Photo: Baidu\"\/>This composite image shows eight people who have travelled to China for medical treatment. Photo: Baidu<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The next day, she met with the doctor for blood and electrocardiogram tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The increasing flow of foreign travellers to China in recent years has been given a shot in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[275],"tags":[4147,41769,53991,7605,1793,115133,13161,4682,156954,995,90849,381,5214,680,20208,156959,156955,40689,156952,18,687,113145,36962,156961,78802,131138,6282,156950,135,475,474,137,7005,19,3912,17,386,30015,14217,96217,156962,156949,9154,60428,156951,156958,17477,11571,4057,18243,24245,49078,10025,54715,5969,2792,35058,45141,23896,17925,156956,156953,156957,1294,73582,107,27728,35334,5030,156960,1432],"class_list":["post-326839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-acupuncture","tag-affordable","tag-ambulance","tag-america","tag-beijing","tag-bloggers","tag-bone","tag-british","tag-broken","tag-canada","tag-cells","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-clinic","tag-countries","tag-cupping","tag-cutting-edge","tag-dental","tag-efficient","tag-eire","tag-emergency","tag-examination","tag-experts","tag-foreign-patients","tag-foreign-tourists","tag-foreigners","tag-free","tag-free-visa","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-heart","tag-hospitals","tag-ie","tag-insurance","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-massage","tag-medical-bills","tag-medical-costs","tag-medical-service","tag-medical-services","tag-medical-tourism","tag-medical-treatment","tag-new-trend","tag-organ","tag-overseas","tag-physiotherapy","tag-prices","tag-pricing","tag-private","tag-residents","tag-results","tag-rules","tag-scan","tag-shanghai","tag-simulation","tag-spleen","tag-stomach","tag-supermarket","tag-techniques","tag-trips","tag-tumour","tag-uk","tag-urgent","tag-us","tag-vancouver","tag-viral-videos","tag-visa","tag-wen-hui-bao","tag-west"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326839","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=326839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}