I’m headed to Africa next month and I’m required to get vaccinated for yellow fever. Can I just go to any hospital in Taipei or is there a dedicated health clinic for vaccinations?
Hmmm, I check up the website of CDC of Taiwan and suddenly realize that I hardly can find a detailed description of where to get vaccination for yellow fever. It’s weird that a center of disease control tells me only what the disease is but no clue of where to get vaccinated. This information or related link is supposed to be attached nearby. :s
The information I get, sadly to say, is to google on the internet. You can go to see the family physicians of National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) or Mackay Memorial Hospital. It is said that at least these two hospitals in Taipei area provide the service of vaccination. If you go to NTUH, there is a clinic of travel medicine, which is responsible by a doctor named Shao-Yi Cheng. Good luck.
For something like this, I would definitely only go to a university hospital like NTU or Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial.
Who the hell knows what’s growing inside those vials at the clinics or how old they are!
Eh, guys, you can get the info, probably even vaccinated at the Centers for Disease Control, close to Shandao Temple station.
When in doubt, go to the baby ward of the hospital. Here, that is where they give such vaccinations. I got mine there, i think it was under $1000?
Thanks. For anyone else that wants to know, its the family clinic at ntu hospital on the second floor clinic #10. Times are 8a-11a and 130p-3p. Make sure you go to the info desk on the first floor to fill out an Outpatient Initial Assessment Form beforehand.
Where to go throughout Taiwan
I’m getting a 404 error for that link—unsurprising as it’s now six plus years old.
I am now looking to get the yellow fever vaccine. Based on what I can find, it does seem to be only at major hospital—in Taipei namely at NTUH and Mackay. I’ve been quoted NT2700ish plus the hospital administration fee(s). If any forumosans have experience with getting this vaccine and any advice to pass along, I would welcome it.
Guy
The children’s pay doctors can set you up in the major hospitals. I got my vaccines there, as did most of my family and friends. Without issue. You pay by the minute I think. But it’s as simple as telling them “I’m travelling, I need XYZ”. time card punched and orders given for the needle which is also sometimes out of pocket.
I suspect most hospitals have the common vaccines. The trend of having to online and qr code everythig is making it harder to ask on the phone, but it’s still possible. Especially if us customers demand it. Call, wait half an hour for their usual hoops, and see if they have the jab haha.
I don’t quite understand what you’re saying here man.
Writing in June 2025: I found out exactly two (2) places in Taipei had the yellow fever vaccine available: NTUH and Mackay. Taipei City Hospital (a large outfit) didn’t have it. Ditto with my local health clinic. It’s apparent that not everyone has some vials sitting in a drawer.
Maybe everyone gets it in the South as you’re living in the jungle right? 
Guy
The children’s part of the hospital.
Where most hospitals also combine travel stuff with.
You pay for it, not the nhi.
I got yellow fever card because I was working and travelling to foreign countries that had risk and I needed the card to transfer. That’s really not relevant though, in terms of how to get it in Taiwan.
I see.
Mackay Hospital in Taipei had their travel doctor working out of Family Medicine—not sure about the “children’s pay” part. The doctor I met today was quite aware of various specific recommendations for where I plan to travel.
This experience was not cheap, and it was not fast, but at least it’s done.
Guy
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So where did you get the vaccine?
Guy
Kaohsiung. E da
But was years ago.
It was just convenient, pingtung and taichung i already planned to do this one. Along with malaria pills.
The pay doctors aren’t cheap. But the NHI doctors are also not cheap, we just don’t pay them directly so people have a skewed opinion of how health care costs work in Taiwan 
either way, they get paid. By they, I mean the owners of the hosptils & clinics lol.
Edit. I got my vaccine at e. Da. I should also mention i have not had more problems than that hospital. So it’s not a recommendation, although I suspect a foreign produced vaccine might be fine. My child was born at eda, I have had multiple operations and procedures there. Almost every single time they have fucked up real simple stuff. From mixing up medications, cheating to stay longer, treating thebwrong part of the body, laying on sheets covered in bile, to ICU failures (with my daughter), to again mixing up medications and incorrectly giving my child’s mother a c section, they gave me gout medication for sprained ankles and so on. As have many others I know. It’s a shit hospital in my opinion, but their cheap wood paneling is pleasant compared to the cold white paint on concrete. Don’t be fooled.
If in Kaohsiung, I have had really good results with Rong Zhong (I might have the pinyin wrong, it’s just off the #10 freeway at the Mingzu exit). The doctors there I have had nearly 100% positive experiences with, unlike e da which I have a nearly 0 % satisfaction with.
Just wanted to clarify as I don’t recommend eda, that’s just there I got my yellow jab.
The Rong Zhong hospital detials, though I didn’t get my yellow jab there. I have gotten malaria pills there before. Otherwise for skin cancer, child thyroid, heat stroke and parasites i have gone there and they were all actually professional and trained well and solved all the problems in a timely manner. And without a shit attitude. Never stayed overnight, so the nursing can’t comment on, which is often sub par in Taiwan. But the doctors have always been great.
高雄榮總醫院
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Now that is helpful.
Guy
I thought most single men were required to get this shot before they came to Taiwan? Or did they discontinue it as it proved completely ineffective?
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I was not advised by health professionals in my previous country to get that vaccine before arriving in Taiwan. Nor has it been required for me at any step of my residency in Taiwan (MMR was, as I found out when I did my APRC health check).
The yellow fever zone seems to extend across parts of South America and parts of the African continent. The yellow fever vaccine is either required or advised to enter some countries in those continents. In Taiwan, it seems to be something like a boutique travel vaccine and priced accordingly.
Guy
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It wuz a joke. Read between the lines.
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Yeah, these man are banjaxed. Thinking Asians will obey them, and rejected by there own kind.
It that still a thing? It looks more like something from thirty years ago more than a Gen Z way of living in the world. 
Guy