Chao Phraya Yommarat Hospital


Chao Phraya Yommarat Hospital is the main hospital of Suphan Buri Province, Thailand and is classified under the Ministry of Public Health as a regional hospital. It is an affiliated hospital of the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University.

History

Chao Phraya Yommarat Hospital was built in 1926 by money donated by Chao Phraya Yommarat, minister of Suphan Buri as a two-storey concrete building, overlooking the Tha Chin River. In 1942, the hospital became a provincial hospital, became managed by the Ministry of Public Health and expanded to have Surgery, Internal Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology buildings. An ER unit was added in 1991.
The hospital became classified as a regional hospital in 2001, then with 503 beds and has since expanded to 680 beds in the present-day.