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Fullerton Health

What It Is: Fullerton Health is a private clinic from Singapore with more than 200 clinics across Asia Pacific, including Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and China. In October, they opened two new locations in Shanghai, one near the huge Starbucks Reserve and the other near Xintiandi. In the health world, Fullerton is still relatively young. Since starting about a decade ago, they have expanded rapidly by purchasing smaller healthcare and insurance companies in the region.



Two of its co-founders, and , have backgrounds in medicine and surgery, including high-level positions with Parkway back in Singapore.

Unlike Parkway in Shanghai, which offers a lot of specialist treatment, Fullerton is more geared towards general maladies and care. It’s the type of place you go when you have a cold or the flu, when you need a general checkup or a gynecological exam, or if you want to talk to someone about diabetes, heart disease or hypertension. It is not, and does not have, an emergency room.



However, between the three clinics (the very first opened in Jing’an in 2018), they also offer dental care, dermatology, ENT, ophthalmology, stomatology, gastroenterology, and Traditional Chinese Medicine consultations.

Most notable, perhaps, is that general consultation fees are 500rmb, roughly half of what they may cost at other international clinics in Shanghai. They are still in the process of setting up direct billing with major insurance companies.

First Impressions: Clean, modern, and comfortable. The Weihai Lu clinic has 24 staff (half part-time), including an ENT specialist, a dentist, several general medicine and internal medicine practitioners, pediatrician Dr Cortez-Dy, gynecologist Dr. Xie, and an outpatient surgeon.



There are dedicated consultation rooms for each department and some VIP single-person waiting rooms, a pharmacy (which stocks things like antihistamines, the contraceptive pill, cold and flu meds), a lab for blood and urine samples, a designated room to handle emergency medical situations, and an outpatient surgical area that can hand simple surgical treatments like the removal of cysts.



I went to see Dr. Melody Zhou, a dentist, because Fullerton was offering a deal on check-up and teeth cleaning for 108rmb, usually 1,650rmb, and that’s hard to pass up. She giggled at my hideous grey fillings (courtesy of the UK’s National Health Service circa 1996), and asked me some routine questions in Chinese — a nurse translated.

I’d liken the experience to Renai’s International Department. The wait was short, receptionists speak good English and they offer you coffee or water while you fill out your forms.

Compared to the large clinics and hospitals like Jiahui, Parkway, and United Family, Fullerton has fewer international staff, which for me isn’t a big deal, and limited medical services. Maybe too limited. It’s not open 24/7, there's no maternity, mental health services, oncology department, functional ER, no x-ray machine to check for broken bones…



I’d say Fullerton is like the equivalent of my general practitioner’s clinic back home in the UK, in a shinier, happier package. It doesn't do everything but that's okay, because for the things it does do, it's much less expensive than what I’d pay to see a doctor in other international clinics.

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Fullerton Health Lejing Clinic is located at 321 Weihai Lu, near Shimen Yi Lu / 富乐医疗集团 威海路321号, 近石门一路

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