Healthcare in Maha Sarakham.

The province's main public hospital, in tambon Talat in the provincial town. On the sources we were able to check it is classified as a general hospital rather than at the regional tier that some larger provincial hospitals hold — Roi Et's, forty-odd kilometres east, is a regional one. What makes it more than a standard provincial hospital is its teaching role: it hosts a clinical medical education centre, a ศูนย์แพทยศาสตรศึกษาชั้นคลินิก, teaching clinical years four to six for the Faculty of Medicine at Mahasarakham University. A hospital that trains doctors on site runs a different standard of case review, specialty coverage and staffing than one that does not, and for a resident that is the most useful single thing to know about it. Its tier we can now state from a register rather than from directories: the Ministry of Public Health's own health-facility code system carries it under facility code 10707 and classifies it as a general hospital, which is what this page has said and which this revision re-tested rather than assumed. Its telephone is 043-723355 to 9 and it is at 168 Phadung Withi Road. What we still cannot tell you is how many beds it has: the figures we found were 472, 540 and 580, from different secondary directories that disagree with each other, and we could not resolve them against a primary source. So we publish none of them rather than picking the flattering one — and note the asymmetry, because it is the useful part: the same public register does publish an in-use bed count for the province's private hospital, 50, but we could not reach a published figure for the public one.

The teaching hospital of Mahasarakham University's Faculty of Medicine, and the reason this province has two hospitals with teaching roles in a single subdistrict. Its history is short and traceable: the university council created the Faculty of Medicine on 21 November 2003; a medical service centre opened at the Khamriang campus on 1 July 2004 and moved to the downtown campus in November 2005; the Medical Council of Thailand approved the MD programme in 2006 and the first cohort was admitted that year; and Suddhavej Hospital itself, named by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on 16 November 2013, opened on 6 June 2014. The faculty also runs programmes in applied Thai traditional medicine, emergency healthcare and health science. We could not verify a total bed count for Suddhavej — one source described a 108-bed inpatient building and a 46-bed ward on one floor, which are partial figures rather than a total — so we do not publish one.

Below the two hospitals in the capital, the province runs the standard Thai structure, and the provincial health office publishes the full list rather than leaving it to be guessed at: fourteen hospitals in total, being Maha Sarakham Hospital and Suddhavej in Mueang, plus twelve community hospitals — Kae Dam, Kosum Phisai, Kantharawichai, Chiang Yuen, Borabue, Na Chueak, Phayakkhaphum Phisai, Wapi Pathum, Na Dun, Yang Sisurat, Kut Rang and Chuen Chom. That is exactly one for each of the twelve districts outside the capital, so no district in this province is without a hospital of its own, which is not true everywhere at this tier. Beneath them, subdistrict health-promoting hospitals cover primary care across the subdistricts and villages. For most residents outside Mueang Maha Sarakham the community hospital is the tier that matters day to day, and it works well for routine care — vaccinations, chronic-condition management, minor injuries. Anything beyond that is a drive back to the capital, which from the southern districts of Na Dun, Yang Sisurat, Wapi Pathum and Phayakkhaphum Phisai means forty minutes to an hour. There is no rail alternative anywhere in the province and no air ambulance service we could verify, so every escalation is a road journey.

This page previously said only that a private hospital appeared in directory listings and that we could not verify it. That gap is now closed, and it closed from a register rather than a directory. The Ministry of Public Health's health-facility code register lists Maha Sarakham International Hospital at 112 Thetsaban Acha Road, tambon Talat, Mueang Maha Sarakham 44000, as a private hospital under facility code HA0024674 and licence number 10201011162, opened on 6 March 2009, with 50 beds in actual use and an active status. Its own numbers are 043-723669 and 043-721700. Two details from the register explain why directories disagree about it, and they are worth knowing if you are searching for it yourself: it was previously called Inter Mahasarakham Hospital and was renamed, and its street number was corrected from 113/235 to 112 in 2024 after the local registry re-planned the town. Old listings carry the old name, the old number, or both. What we still do not claim is its accreditation status or the range of specialties it carries; those we have not checked. For deep private and tertiary care the realistic answer remains Khon Kaen, about 62 kilometres northwest, which carries the region's largest concentration of both — and that trip is entirely by road.