If this is life-threatening, call 112 (national emergency) or 119 (medical emergency / ambulance) first. 112 is the national emergency number in Indonesia; 119 is the public health emergency line (PSC 119) for ambulance and medical dispatch. A diver who is confused, weak, short of breath or in pain after a dive is an emergency call, not a search for a chamber on a phone.
Dive operators and insurers both talk about chambers as though a chamber were a fixed address that is always open. In Bali that is not what the published record shows. This page sets out exactly what we were able to verify on 30 September 2026, exactly what we could not, and what we do while the question is live. It contains no treatment guidance of any kind.
What we could verify, and what we could not
We read the Ministry of Health hospital registry for Bali and the official websites of the facilities themselves. The result is narrower than the internet suggests.
- None of the 88 Bali hospitals in the Ministry of Health registry lists hyperbaric treatment among its services. Not one. Source: the ministry’s own hospital profiles, read 30 September 2026. Status: verified against the official registry.
- RSUP Prof. Dr. I.G.N.G. Ngoerah, Denpasar. The hospital’s own website describes a hyperbaric chamber, and publishes clinic hours of Monday to Thursday 07.00 to 13.30 and Friday 07.00 to 13.00 — daytime hours, not around the clock. Source: the facility’s official website, checked 30 September 2026. Status: verified from the facility’s own publication, not from the ministry registry.
- Kasih Ibu Saba, Gianyar. The group’s official website describes a hyperbaric and diving medicine centre based there, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy, diving medicine and fitness-to-dive assessment. We found no published opening hours for it. Source: the group’s official website, checked 30 September 2026. Status: verified from the facility’s own publication, not from the ministry registry.
Capabilities and opening hours change. We confirm by phone at the time of your case. That confirmation is the only thing worth acting on. The full area-by-area picture, with the source and check date on every line, is in the Bali hospital directory by area.
Listed is not the same as ready
A chamber is a room, a compressor and a team. Being described on a website tells you the room exists. It does not tell you whether a hyperbaric physician is on call tonight, whether the chamber team is available, whether it is already occupied, or whether that hospital can admit the patient at all. Those four questions have different answers at three in the morning than at eleven on a Tuesday, which is why we phone rather than publish. Anyone who tells you a chamber in Bali is available around the clock is telling you something we could not verify from any official source.
The islands
We could not verify a chamber on Nusa Penida, on Nusa Lembongan, or on the Gili islands. What does exist on the record is more modest: the UK Foreign Office list of medical facilities in Indonesia, updated 9 July 2026, names clinics on Nusa Penida and Nusa Lembongan with English-speaking staff and general and emergency medicine as their main scope. A clinic listing is not evidence of a chamber, and it is not evidence of imaging either.
We do not publish crossing times or transfer routes between the islands and the mainland. Sea conditions, boat schedules and the receiving facility all change the answer, and a number written on a web page would be a guess dressed as information. What we do instead is ask, at the time, who will take the patient and how the move is actually being made.
What happens before a chamber
Everything that happens before a chamber is clinical, and clinicians make those decisions: whether oxygen is given, how much fluid, whether the patient is fit to move, whether a chamber is even the right destination. We do not supply oxygen, we do not treat, and we do not assess a diver. If you are with a dive operator, their emergency procedure and their own medical contacts come first; we work alongside that, not over the top of it. Where an evacuation is being considered, how an evacuation or repatriation is arranged explains who decides what.
Insurance and diving
Diving cover is where standard travel policies most often stop short. Read for three things before the trip: whether recreational diving is covered at all, to what depth, and whether the policy requires you to have been certified and diving within the limits of that certification. Some policies also require that a dive was conducted with a qualified operator or instructor. Specialist dive insurance exists for precisely this gap.
If a case is running, tell your insurer early rather than after the fact — coverage decisions turn on notification as much as on the diagnosis. We prepare and submit the documentation and keep the insurer, the family and the facility looking at the same file, which is set out in what a guarantee of payment is. We cannot approve a claim or authorise treatment.
What we coordinate, and what we will not tell you
What we do: phone facilities to establish who can actually receive a diving case now, call ahead in Indonesian so the team is expecting the patient, arrange ground transport, meet you there, interpret, handle admission paperwork, and keep the insurer and the family informed. The wider chain, from the first call to handover, is in how emergency coordination works end to end, and the numbers themselves in Indonesia emergency numbers 112 and 119.
What we do not do: we do not own or operate a chamber, we do not supply oxygen, we do not give treatment or any first-aid guidance, and we do not tell a diver whether their symptoms are decompression illness. We employ no medical staff. We also will not write down a travel time, a chamber availability or a network of facilities that we cannot evidence — in a diving emergency, a confident wrong answer costs more than an honest gap.
Common questions
Where should I go in Bali for decompression sickness?
One Bali hyperbaric chamber is confirmed on an official hospital page, at RSUP Prof. Ngoerah in Denpasar, and its published hours are daytime, not 24 hours. A listed chamber is not the same as a chamber staffed right now. Call 112 or 119, and we confirm readiness by phone.
Where can I get an X-ray on Nusa Penida?
We have not verified radiology on Nusa Penida from an official source, and we will not list it on a guess. The UK Foreign Office list, updated 9 July 2026, names a clinic on the island, which is not evidence of imaging. For a fracture, plan on mainland Bali and call ahead.
Does travel insurance cover medical evacuation from Bali?
Many travel policies include emergency medical evacuation, but coverage depends on your wording, on medical necessity as judged by clinicians, and on the insurer being notified before arrangements are made. Never assume approval. We help you notify them early and keep the medical documentation moving in one file.
Does the travel insurance company approve medical evacuation?
Two parties decide, and neither is us. The treating clinician judges whether the patient is fit to move and what escort is required; your insurer decides what it will authorise and pay for. Our role is to make sure both are talking to each other with the same documents in front of them.
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Sanur Emergency is an independent medical concierge. We are not a clinic, hospital or ambulance operator, we do not employ medical staff, and we are not affiliated with any medical facility. All clinical care is delivered by licensed providers.