Health & Medical in China

How pharmacies in China work: chain drugstores, TCM shops, OTC marks, what common medicines cost, delivery apps, and customs rules for your own drugs.

China’s hospitals are fast and cheap once you know the system. Here’s how to register, what it costs, where the English clinics are, and how to handle payment and insurance.

China does not require travel insurance, but hospitals want payment up front; here is the cover that matters for medical care, evacuation, altitude and hiking

How to handle a medical emergency in China, with the emergency numbers, how ambulance calls work, foreigner-friendly clinics, and the lost passport procedure

A guide to altitude sickness in China, from Lhasa to Everest Base Camp, with acclimatization schedules, medication notes, and warning signs that mean descend

Health and vaccinations for China travel mean routine boosters plus Hep A and typhoid for most visitors, with altitude sickness the bigger risk in Tibet than any required shot