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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Thai Medical Visas. A recent article from the Pattaya Mail that is the pattayamail.com, the article is titled: Overseas Thai Embassies Update Visa Guidance for Foreigners. I thought there was a rather interesting insight, a tiny little excerpt from this article, quoting directly: "According to the Thai Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, visas for medical tourists have now been suspended until further notice. Some other Embassies but not all, have quietly dropped Medical Tourism as a valid reason to request entry to Thailand." 

I thought that was quite interesting. We definitely saw at the beginning of this, Medical Tourism or Medical Entry was one of the first categories that allowed people to come to Thailand. Frankly I think it is because Thailand is so top-notch with respect to the medical industry in this region that people have to come here to get certain urgent medical treatment because oftentimes in their own country, especially here in Southeast Asia, they just don't have the facilities. So one of the first things we saw being re-opened if you go back to about a year ago after they first closed everything down under the Emergency Decree in March, we started seeing things kind of re-open a few months later but medical was the first thing they did. It doesn't particularly surprise me that this article, that the observation here is that the Medical Tourism or the Medical Visa is being you know quietly dropped; it is just kind of being shelved for the moment. It makes some sense under the current circumstances. I mean it made sense at the beginning of this to allow it because there were people who had already made plans for urgent medical travel. It doesn't so much make a lot of sense at least as of the present moment.

I suspect perhaps in the upcoming six months, maybe a year, we will probably see Medical Visas being used again on a more regular basis but at least for now it seems that it is being shelved and I suspect we will probably not see a lot of Medical Visas being used to enter Thailand in the relatively near future.