Meko International Hospital

Meko International Hospital is a cosmetic and plastic surgery provider in Bangkok. Patients and the provider's own website mostly call it Meko Clinic (เมโกะ คลินิก). The main site is in Chatuchak district, at 41 Vibhavadi Rangsit Road in Chom Phon subdistrict (postcode 10900). There is also a separate branch, Meko Clinic Rama 2, in Bang Mot subdistrict of Chom Thong district. Meko's home page dates the clinic to 1982 and credits its founding to Dr. Manat Chayavichitsilp, whose name appears there in Thai (นายแพทย์มนัส ฉายาวิจิตรศิลป์).

The name deserves a moment of attention before you plan a trip. The contact page for the Vibhavadi Rangsit site carries the heading Meko International Hospital, yet the wording used across the rest of the site presents the business as a clinic, and the older hospital web address simply forwards to the clinic domain. We found no page that gives a bed count, an inpatient ward, operating-theatre numbers or an intensive care unit, so this profile quotes none of those. For that reason we describe the facility type as a plastic surgery clinic. If an overnight stay or close post-operative monitoring matters to you, put it to the provider before committing: which building hosts the surgery, and what happens if you need to stay longer than planned?

What Meko's pages do document is the range of surgery on offer and the doctors on its directory. Its Thai-language pages sort the offering into four areas: the face, the body, hair, and intimate care for women. Its directory runs to 28 doctors, among them dermatology, gynaecology and laser practitioners outside our scope. We profile only the sixteen whose listed specialty is surgical or surgery-adjacent for cosmetic patients, and those are the names in the surgeons section below.

This page was assembled by ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com from Meko's published pages, last checked on 2 October 2026. ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com is a separate booking platform, unconnected to Meko's ownership. To request a consultation, use our form; the request is forwarded to the provider and nothing is booked until the provider itself confirms. Our provider research methodology page describes how facts are gathered and what we do when a fact cannot be found.

One limitation to keep in mind throughout: Meko publishes in Thai, and several surgeons' names appear in English only in our own surgeon data, not on the pages we could read. Where this page gives an English spelling, treat it as a transliteration rather than the doctor's own published form.

Meko's website divides its surgical work into four areas. What follows is a reading of those pages, not a promise that every operation is offered by every surgeon on every day.

Face. The site names nose surgery (including open rhinoplasty), double eyelid surgery, correction of a drooping upper eyelid, the style of eyelid and eye-corner work marketed as foxy eyes, lip surgery, chin surgery, fat transfer to the face, facelift, brow lift, forehead procedures and removal of cheek fat. The face is where the doctor directory overlaps most: plastic surgeons, ear-nose-throat surgeons with a facial focus and eye surgeons specialising in the eyelids all appear on it.

Breast and body. Breast augmentation and liposuction are the two body operations with their own service pages. On that page Meko says an anaesthesiologist is present at each operation. That is a specific, checkable claim about how Meko says it works, but it is worth confirming for your own date and operation who will be giving the anaesthetic and what they will monitor.

Hair. FUE hair transplantation and PRP treatments are listed.

Women's health and intimate surgery. Labiaplasty and a repair procedure are grouped under a women's health heading.

Besides surgery, the clinic's directory shows skin and laser practitioners. We do not profile that side of the business. If you want to see how other Bangkok options compare, our Bangkok guide lists further facilities.

What Meko does not publish, as far as we could find: prices, outcome statistics, operation volumes, an international patient department or a list of spoken languages. Missing information is not evidence that something is lacking; it only means you need to ask. If a quotation reaches you, ask for it in writing together with a description of exactly what it covers.

Sixteen of the doctors named on Meko's directory have a profile here. They are grouped below by the specialty label the directory gives each of them, and the order inside a group has no meaning. Some surgeons also see patients elsewhere, so check which site your doctor will actually use.

Plastic surgeons

• Dr. Phonlawat Trakulngernthai: Meko's directory attaches the Thai Board plastic surgery label. Our surgeon file records two Thai society memberships, ThPRS (plastic and reconstructive) and ThSAPS (aesthetic), and lists English and Thai as languages, the latter taken from another hospital's page.
• Dr. Kitipong Kaewpichai: a plastic surgeon with the same Thai Board label; our file records ThPRS, ThSAPS and Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand membership, with English and Thai from a different hospital's listing.
• Dr. Wasan Janetanakul: a plastic surgeon whose recorded procedure interest is rhinoplasty. Memberships on his file include ThPRS, ThSAPS and ISAPS; English and Thai are noted from another provider's page.
• Dr. Tawan Pulpinyo: a plastic surgeon with ThPRS and ThSAPS membership recorded, and English and Thai noted.
• Dr. Weerakan Satitniramai: Meko titles him in Thai as an aesthetic medical practitioner focused on cosmetic surgery, while our file classes him under plastic surgery. His recorded procedures run from nose, eyelid, chin and breast work to liposuction, tummy tuck, facelift and facial fat grafting.
• Dr. Yongkiat Thanacharoenpanich: Meko gives the same aesthetic-practice title in Thai; our file records nose, chin, breast and liposuction procedures.
• Dr. Wananya Phochai: Meko's directory lists her for cosmetic surgery and a Thai plastic surgery society membership; she is recorded for rhinoplasty, facial fat grafting and liposuction.
• Dr. Pasu Promniyom: a plastic and reconstructive surgeon whose recorded areas include face lifting and body contouring, alongside microsurgery and hand surgery.
• Dr. Monlada Kanjanatarayon and Dr. Prat Manorot: both appear under plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Ear-nose-throat surgeons with a facial focus

• Dr. Chayakorn Phannikul: the directory shows a Thai Board ENT qualification (otolaryngology, head and neck) and names open rhinoplasty as his expertise. Our file records a rhinology fellowship at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital.
• Dr. Walop Supavanich: the directory shows him with the same Thai Board ENT qualification; facelift and brow lift are his recorded procedures.

Oculoplastic (eye) surgeons

• Dr. Sucheera Sarunket, Dr. Pennung Thongtong and Dr. Penake Thongtong: all three are listed under ophthalmology with a focus on plastic and reconstructive surgery of the eyelids and surrounding tissue. For Dr. Penake Thongtong our file records double eyelid surgery and brow lift.

Aesthetic medical practice

• Dr. Manat Chayavichitsilp: named by Meko as the founder. His Thai title translates as a practitioner in aesthetic medicine, not a plastic surgeon. His file records rhinoplasty and its revision, alar reduction, eyelid surgery with a double fold, chin augmentation, and liposuction.

Why the labels matter: a plastic surgeon, an ENT facial surgeon, an eye surgeon and an aesthetic medical practitioner come through different training routes. Ask the provider who will operate on you, ask what their specific training is for your procedure, and find the doctor in the Thai Medical Council's list of licensed physicians. The English spellings above for several of these names are unconfirmed transliterations, since the pages we read gave only the Thai.

We attach a procedure to this provider only where one of its own pages, or the page of a named surgeon, mentions it. What follows each heading is general background from our procedure pages. They do not describe how Meko performs an operation, and suitability for any of them needs an individual assessment by a surgeon.

### Face

[Rhinoplasty](/procedures/rhinoplasty/) has a dedicated Meko page, and several of the listed surgeons, both plastic and ENT, name it. In general the operation reshapes bone and cartilage to alter the bridge, width or tip, and in many cases helps breathing too. Allow 7 to 10 days in the country according to our guide, ending when the splint has been removed and the surgeon has examined you; the hospital part is usually the day itself or one night. Most swelling is gone in two to three weeks, and fine changes to the tip can carry on for a year or more. If you have already had nose surgery, ask about revision rhinoplasty, which our files record for Dr. Weerakan Satitniramai and Dr. Manat Chayavichitsilp.

[Double eyelid surgery](/procedures/double-eyelid-surgery/) and [ptosis correction](/procedures/ptosis-correction/) are described on one shared Meko page. Our guide for double eyelid surgery puts a typical stay at 5 to 7 days. Ptosis, a drooping upper eyelid caused by a weak lifting muscle, can be a functional problem as well as a cosmetic one, which helps explain why eye surgeons sit on this provider's roster.

[Chin augmentation](/procedures/chin-augmentation/) has its own page; we describe a typical stay of 5 to 7 days. Ask which technique and which implant or graft material would be used for you.

[Facial fat grafting](/procedures/facial-fat-grafting/) and [buccal fat removal](/procedures/buccal-fat-removal/) each have a Meko page. Their aims differ: one restores volume, the other reduces fullness in the lower cheek. A frank conversation about your face shape and how it is likely to change with age will tell you more than the procedure name.

[Facelift](/procedures/facelift/) and [brow lift](/procedures/brow-lift/) appear on Meko's site through its list of services and through named surgeons, rather than on a dedicated page of our research. Our facelift guide gives 10 to 14 days in Thailand and usually one or two nights in hospital, with bruising mostly settling in two to three weeks; for a brow lift our guide gives about 7 to 10 days.

### Breast and body

[Breast augmentation](/procedures/breast-augmentation/) has a Meko page, and it is the page carrying the anaesthesiologist statement mentioned above. Our guide's figures: seven to ten days away from home, desk work again after about seven days, and hard exercise after roughly six weeks. [Liposuction](/procedures/liposuction/) also has its own page. It is a contouring operation and not a way to lose weight; you would normally wear a compression garment for several weeks, and the final contour shows as swelling subsides over three to six months.

### Hair and intimate surgery

[FUE hair transplant](/procedures/fue-hair-transplant/) has a Meko page, and our guide suggests 3 to 5 days in Thailand. [Labiaplasty](/procedures/labiaplasty/) is described on a Thai-language Meko page. Our own guide treats it as usually a day-case procedure, with a typical stay of 5 to 7 days.

### Not documented

We did not find any Meko page about gender-affirming surgery, so we do not attach it to this provider. Anyone researching that area can begin at our gender-affirming surgery section.

Our research recorded no accreditation for Meko International Hospital as of 2 October 2026. None of the pages we read mention an international or national accreditation, so we cannot cite a body, a status or a validity date, and we show none. That is a statement about what we could confirm and not a verdict on quality.

In general, accreditation looks at a facility's systems, such as infection control and patient safety routines, at the time of an assessment. It says nothing about the result any one patient will get, and a facility without it can still employ well-qualified surgeons. Whatever the status, several checks are sensible with any provider:

• Check that your surgeon appears in the Thai Medical Council's physician register.
• Ask in which building the operation will happen, who gives the anaesthetic, and who watches you during recovery.
• Find out what the plan is if you need a longer stay or extra treatment.
• Have the treatment plan, the exact contents of any quoted price and the follow-up schedule set down in writing.

What the provider itself publishes. Meko's site is in Thai. We saw no mention of an international desk, interpreters, airport transfers or a list of spoken languages. A handful of surgeons have English recorded in our own files, taken from other hospitals' pages (Dr. Phonlawat Trakulngernthai, Dr. Kitipong Kaewpichai, Dr. Tawan Pulpinyo and Dr. Wasan Janetanakul), but Meko gives no language information for its doctors as a group. Treat every other service as unconfirmed until it is promised to you in writing.

Our role. Once your request reaches us, we write to the provider on your behalf, help turn your goals, photographs and medical history into something the clinic can assess, ask what language support and remote-consultation options exist, and pass the provider's answer and any proposed plan back to you. We give no medical advice and we do not run the clinic. Requesting a consultation is free, and the provider has to confirm before anything is fixed.

Planning the trip. Overseas patients usually need a pre-operative check, the operation itself, and a review before flying home. How long you need depends on the operation, and the ranges quoted in the procedures section are a starting point. Before buying flights, learn when stitches or a splint would be removed, whether that appointment fits before your departure, and whom to contact about a complication once you are back home.

Meko lists two Bangkok sites on its contact page.

• Main site: Vibhavadi Rangsit Road no. 41, in Chom Phon subdistrict, Chatuchak district; the postcode is 10900. The provider shows opening times of 09:00 to 20:00, seven days a week.
• Rama 2 branch (Meko Clinic Rama 2): a separate address, 500 Rama 2 Road, in the Bang Mot subdistrict of Chom Thong district (postcode 10150). Open every day from 10:00 until 20:00.

The two sites lie in quite different parts of the city. Chatuchak is in the north, along the Vibhavadi Rangsit corridor, and Chom Thong is in the south-west on the Rama 2 road. Ask which site will host your consultation and which will host your operation, because a doctor can see patients at one place and operate at another. Nothing on transport has been confirmed by us, for example the nearest rail station or usual journey times, and the pages we read do not give them, so ask the clinic itself for directions. Our Bangkok guide covers staying in the capital more broadly.

The simplest route is the consultation form for Meko. If you already have a surgeon in mind, you can instead start from that doctor, for example Dr. Weerakan Satitniramai or Dr. Wasan Janetanakul. In your message, name the operation, give an approximate travel month and say if this would be your first surgery.

Our team forwards the request to Meko, which then decides whether it can see you, with which doctor and on what date. A request is never an instant booking, and nothing is reserved until Meko confirms. Our procedure pages say that confirmation usually arrives within one working day. If you are weighing several providers, you may send requests to more than one and compare the replies before choosing.

The clearer your first message, the more realistic the clinic's reply can be. As a rule, gather these items.

• Your aim, in your own words, plus two or three pictures of results you admire and a note on anything you want to avoid.
• Photographs of the area, taken in even light. For a nose operation: straight on, each side, and one from below. For eyelids: eyes open and relaxed, looking ahead and then upward. For the chin: a side profile. For breast or body procedures: front, side and back against a plain wall. For hair: the hairline, the crown and the donor area at the back and sides.
• Medical history: allergies, regular medicines including blood thinners and supplements, smoking or vaping, earlier operations, any trouble with anaesthetics, and breathing difficulties if the nose is involved.
• Records of earlier surgery: operation notes, the type of any implant or filler used, and the dates. This matters most for revision work.
• Travel window: when you could arrive and how many days you can stay in Bangkok after the operation.

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