A hotline for making reservations for the nonavalent Gardasil 9 human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine at Boao Super Hospital (BSH) in Boao, South China’s Hainan Province has been ringing off the hook in recent days.
The hospital is located inside the 20-square-kilometer Hainan Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone, which is China’s first pilot zone for medical tourism, and will be the first on the mainland to provide the vaccination.
Hainan drug regulators have announced that they had decided on a price for the vaccine after a round of negotiations, and they are expecting that the vaccine will arrive at the hospital by June.
The hospital was established on March 31, and is among the first batch of six hospitals to be opened to the public in Lecheng so far.
The nonavalent vaccine protects patients from the nine most aggressive forms of genital HPV, which is strongly related to the onset of cervical cancer.
Lecheng was not much known to the public before the Chinese government announced the decision in mid-April to build Hainan into a free trade port.
At the same time, the number of foreigners seeking healthcare in Lecheng has been rapidly surging over the past month.
Every week, there are around 40 patients from Russia, Thailand, Cambodia and Ukraine visiting the hospital. They have shown strong interest in traditional Chinese medicine treatments.
Hainan is often called China’s version of Hawaii, and in the future, it could also be considered as a shopping heaven and China’s version of Dubai.
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