Healthcare in Ranong.

The province's only substantial hospital, at 11 Kamlang Sap Road, tambon Khao Niwet in the provincial town (077-812-630 to 3; the Narenthorn emergency dispatch line is 077-813-300). The Ministry of Public Health facility register grades it more highly than this page used to: it is a general hospital at Level S, the large-general tier, with 302 beds in service as at the ministry's March 2026 count, not simply a 300-bed provincial hospital. Level S matters because it is the grade at which resident specialist departments and a real theatre and ICU capability are expected, and it explains why a province this small carries its own emergency, surgical and inpatient load across five districts, 30 subdistricts and 178 villages. Being within reach of it is the single strongest healthcare argument for living in the town or in Bang Rin, and the distance to it is the single biggest practical health risk of living anywhere else. The hospital also runs its own after-hours specialty outpatient clinic, Monday to Friday from 16:30 to 20:30, at a flat starting fee of 350 baht for Thai nationals and 600 baht for foreign nationals (blood tests, medication and X-rays charged separately per entitlement) — a genuine way to see a doctor outside a 9-to-4 government schedule without the drive to Phuket, booked through the same main line.

Outside the capital the network is small, and this pass puts a verified number, address and phone line behind all four rather than repeating a directory figure. Kra Buri Hospital is registered as an F2 community hospital — the medium tier — with 30 beds in service, tel 077-891-036; it traces back to a Class 2 health station built in 1941 that grew into a full 10-bed hospital in 1978 and was expanded to its current 30-bed size in 1993. Its own contact page prints the address as 168 Moo 3, tambon Nam Chuet, where the Ministry facility register this page cites elsewhere gives Moo 2 for the same hospital — flagged here rather than silently picked, since both point to the same building on the Chumphon side of town. Kapoe Hospital is a genuine 35-bed community hospital: the Ministry's own district-level facility count, mirrored on Wikipedia's Kapoe district page, independently confirms 35 beds, so the "indicative, not official" hedge this page carried for it before is now resolved. It is at 195 Moo 1, Phet Kasem Road, tambon Kapoe 85120, tel 077-897-222, and in August 2008 HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn personally approved a Chaipattana Foundation renovation and medical-equipment budget for it after officials found the hospital's mid-1990s structure had deteriorated. La-un Hospital's own institutional history states it opened as a 10-bed community hospital on 3 January 1994, having started three years earlier as a twice-weekly outreach clinic staffed by visiting doctors from Kra Buri; the Ministry's current district-level count puts it at 16 beds today, which is a real capacity expansion over three decades rather than a contradiction of its own founding story, and it now holds several Ministry quality accreditations including HA Level 3 (2015), NCD Quality (2015), a tuberculosis-clinic standard (2015), and maternal-and-child and adolescent-clinic standards (2014). It is in tambon Bang Phra Tai, La-un 85130, tel 077-899-054. Suk Samran Hospital, the province's southernmost, began as a 10-bed build in 1994, opened its outpatient and delivery wards on 5 March 1996, and added a dedicated inpatient building in 2002; it remains a 10-bed hospital today, at 57/2 Moo 5, tambon Kamphuan, tel 077-989-819. All four handle primary care, routine outpatient work, maternity and stabilisation, and refer upward to Ranong Hospital for anything complex. From Suk Samran in the far south the drive to the provincial hospital is a real factor in an emergency.

Below the hospitals sit 45 tambon health-promoting hospitals spread across the province — 16 in Mueang Ranong, 11 in Kra Buri, 8 in La-un, 6 in Kapoe and 4 in Suk Samran. This district-by-district split was independently re-confirmed this pass against the same Ministry district-level facility counts used above for Kapoe and La-un, and it holds exactly. These are the everyday layer: vaccinations, chronic-disease follow-up, minor treatment and referral. They are the reason rural Ranong is better covered for routine care than its hospital count alone suggests, and they are not a substitute for a hospital in an emergency.

There is a registered private hospital in Ranong and this page previously implied there was none. Andaman Ranong Medical, at 130/274-276 Thamueang Road in tambon Khao Niwet in the provincial town, is classified in the Ministry of Public Health facility register as a private hospital rather than a clinic, and it is currently active, with five beds in service. A hospital-insurance network directory lists a contact line for it at 077-835-960; we could not independently confirm that number against the facility's own channels (it has no confirmed official website), so treat it as a starting point for a call rather than a verified direct line. Read the bed count carefully, because it is the whole point: five beds is a hospital in the legal sense and not an alternative to Ranong Hospital for anything serious. It is a genuine option for private outpatient care, faster consultations and minor treatment, alongside the town's private clinics and pharmacies. It is not somewhere you have surgery or spend a week. The honest correction is therefore narrow — Ranong does have a private hospital; Ranong does not have private inpatient depth, and for that the road still runs south.

For anything Ranong Hospital cannot handle, the road south is the answer. Phuket, roughly four hours down Highway 4, has the nearest deep hospital bench including international-standard private facilities, and it is where Ranong residents realistically go for specialist treatment. Bangkok is an hour and a quarter by air from Ranong Airport if the flight timing works. Anyone with an ongoing specialist condition should treat that journey as a routine part of living here, and anyone considering the islands should add a boat to it.