Buriram Hospital

Key facts

Overview

Buriram Hospital is the main public hospital of Buriram Province, on Na Sathani Road in the city centre. First constructed in 1951 as a single 25-bed building, it officially opened on 10 March 1953 and operated as a general hospital before being reclassified as a regional hospital under Thailand's Ministry of Public Health on 29 April 1997, expanding to 520 beds at the time. Bed capacity grew again to 590 by the end of fiscal year 2000, and the hospital is reported today at up to 895 beds. As Buriram's main provincial public facility, it offers dramatically lower costs than the private Buriram Ram Hospital, at the trade-off of longer waits and more limited English-language support. BAANLYY is not affiliated with Buriram Hospital and takes no paid placement in this guide; confirm all figures directly with the hospital.

A teaching hospital, and why that matters

Buriram Hospital hosts the Clinical Medical Education Centre, Buriram Hospital (ศูนย์แพทยศาสตรศึกษาชั้นคลินิก โรงพยาบาลบุรีรัมย์), a joint institute created under CPIRD — Thailand’s Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctors. Thailand’s Cabinet approved the underlying scheme in principle on 21 February 2006 as part of the national public-health investment plan for 2006–2009; the Ministry of Public Health and Suranaree University of Technology signed their memorandum of cooperation at SUT in Nakhon Ratchasima on 14 September 2006; and SUT’s rector, Assoc. Prof. Dr Prasart Suebka, visited Buriram Regional Hospital and signed there on 8 November 2006.

The centre teaches the clinical years of SUT’s Doctor of Medicine degree on the hospital campus, from a purpose-built nine-storey medical education building. The original plan was 48 medical students a year to 2010, rising to 60 a year from 2011, and the centre presented its thirteenth graduating cohort for the 2023 academic year. Its own account of why it exists is unusually direct: the acute shortage of doctors in lower Isaan. For a patient, the practical consequence is that a hospital carrying a university’s clinical teaching has to maintain consultant-grade staffing across the core specialties — which is part of why Buriram’s referral ceiling sits higher than its bed count alone would suggest. The centre can be reached on 0 4461 5002, extensions 3619–3621.

Scope note: the centre also publishes a separate year-six rotation schedule for Ramathibodi (Mahidol University) students alongside its SUT schedules. BAANLYY has verified the SUT relationship from the centre’s own history page but found no first-party statement describing the Ramathibodi arrangement, so this page does not characterise it.

Specialties & departments

• General medicine & emergency care
• Broad general-hospital departments typical of a regional MOPH facility
• Clinical Medical Education Centre (CPIRD) — clinical years of the Doctor of Medicine degree of the Institute of Medicine, Suranaree University of Technology, taught on campus since 2006

International patient services

As a Thai public hospital, Buriram Hospital is oriented primarily toward the general Thai population rather than international patients, with more limited English-language support than the private Buriram Ram Hospital — expect a public-hospital experience (longer waits, much lower cost) and confirm current services directly with the hospital.

Location & transport

The hospital sits on Na Sathani Road in the city centre. Buriram has no rail transit within the city itself (the SRT railway station serves intercity trains); most patients arrive by car, motorbike taxi, songthaew or Grab.

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