Sun Yat-sen’s Sixth Hospital opens international department at Knowledge City

The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University opened an international medical department in China-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City in February 2026. A report published by Guangzhou’s Science and Technology Bureau describes the service’s clinical setting, language support, insurance arrangements and referral connections.

International service at a newer campus

The department is based at the Knowledge City campus, which opened on March 28, 2025. The campus is managed within the hospital’s wider system and combines general specialist care with international medicine and rehabilitation facilities.

Its clinical coverage extends the hospital’s gastrointestinal and urological services, alongside orthopaedics, sports rehabilitation, women’s and children’s care, emergency and critical care, and other internal medicine specialties.

The hospital reported more than 11,000 visits by patients from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas in 2025. This is a count of visits across the hospital, rather than a count of individual patients at the newly opened department.

Interpretation, insurance and specialist connections

The international department has a multilingual medical interpretation and service team. It has established direct-payment partnerships with multiple domestic and overseas high-end medical insurers.

The hospital’s remote consultation centre can connect specialists in China and abroad. A rapid two-way referral pathway also supports movement between participating care providers.

Clinical teams behind the department

International department head Ren Donglin leads the hospital’s pelvic floor and anorectal surgery service. The report describes a 15-year-old Zambian patient with Currarino syndrome who received care from his team after seven previous operations in several countries.

The hospital’s anorectal surgery service comprises three units and 180 beds. Those are specialty-wide resources, not a separate bed allocation to international medicine. In orthopaedics and sports medicine, the account also describes robot-assisted joint replacement integrated with rehabilitation, with an emphasis on early recovery and return to activity.