The one-line version: healthcare is the thing Sing Buri does best for its size, and the reason is a number rather than a claim — two Ministry of Public Health general hospitals in 822 square kilometres, 282 beds in the capital and roughly 150–159 more at In Buri, where a province this size normally has one. In Buri's own published vision is elderly care and rehabilitation, not a smaller copy of the capital hospital. Add community hospitals in the other four districts, 45 subdistrict health-promoting hospitals and around 105 clinics and coverage is complete. What the province does not have is a regional or university hospital of its own — for anything specialist the referral is out to Lop Buri (~31 min), Ayutthaya (~48 min) or Bangkok (~1h35–1h45), and Highway 32 makes all three genuinely reachable.
Every hospital in the province
| Facility | Type | Location | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sing Buri Hospital (โรงพยาบาลสิงห์บุรี) | MOPH general hospital, 282 beds | 917/3 Khun San Road, Bang Phutsa subdistrict, Mueang Sing Buri 16000 — tel 036-522508 to 11 | The provincial referral hospital and the largest facility in Sing Buri, in the capital district on the Chao Phraya, on a 33-rai-2-ngan site. It opened 24 June 1955 with 10 beds funded by government, was later expanded with four donated buildings from Phra Thammuni (Luang Pho Pae Khemankaro) worth ฿250 million, and now runs 282 beds with a staff of around 800. It anchors a district that also holds 58 of the province's roughly 105 registered clinics — more than the other five districts combined. Its own referral network names Tha Chang, Bang Rachan, Khai Bang Rachan and Phrom Buri hospitals plus In Buri Hospital as its network facilities. |
| In Buri Hospital (โรงพยาบาลอินทร์บุรี) | MOPH general hospital, listed at 150–159 beds depending on source | 37/7 Moo 1, Thap Ya subdistrict, In Buri district 16110 — tel 036-581993 (OPD 036-699369 ext. 2111/2116) | The reason Sing Buri scores unusually well on healthcare for its size. This is a full general hospital in its own right, not a community hospital, categorised M1 (small general hospital) by the Ministry — so the province has two general-hospital-grade facilities rather than one, in 822 square kilometres. It began in the 1950s from a fundraising drive by Phra Thep Suthimoli, a former abbot of Wat Bot in In Buri, opened as a Class 1 health station on 10 November 1957 and became a hospital proper on 22 March 1959. Its own published vision is specific and worth knowing before you assume it is a smaller copy of the provincial hospital: it names itself a leader in elderly care and health rehabilitation, and its current-year targets are built around growing its Intermediate Care (IMC) caseload — explicitly including IMC patients referred in from outside In Buri district. For a retiree choosing between the two hospital towns, that is a real clinical specialisation, not just a smaller bed count. |
| Tha Chang Hospital | MOPH community hospital, 42 beds (opened 1995 at 30 beds) | Moo 5, Pho Prachak subdistrict, Tha Chang 16140 — tel 036-597105, fax 036-597434 | The largest of the four community hospitals, serving the province's smallest district in the south. Ministry-approved for construction in the 1994 fiscal year and began service as a 30-bed community hospital on 1 March 1995; bed count has since grown to 42. |
| Bang Rachan Hospital | MOPH community hospital, 35 beds | 41 Moo 6, Choeng Klat subdistrict, Bang Rachan 16130 — tel 036-814755 | Serves the province's second town municipality and the Mae La country, named for the 1765 siege the district commemorates. |
| Khai Bang Rachan Hospital | MOPH community hospital, 30 beds | Khai Bang Rachan district | Serves the memorial-park district. Note this is distinct from the similarly-named Camp Bang Rachan hospital (โรงพยาบาลค่ายบางระจัน) that appears on Sing Buri Hospital's own referral-network list — the two names are easy to conflate and we have not resolved whether they are the same facility under different names or two separate ones; confirm directly if this distinction matters to you. |
| Phrom Buri Hospital | MOPH community hospital, 28 beds | 172 Moo 3, Asia Highway, Ban Mo subdistrict, Phrom Buri 16120 — tel 036-511614 | Serves the eastern district that also holds the provincial Immigration Office and Wat Amphawan, directly on the Asian Highway (Route 32). |
| Singburi Vechakarn Hospital | Private hospital, 30 beds | Mueang Sing Buri | The province's one private option, in the capital district. At 30 beds it is a small facility — useful for routine and convenience care rather than a substitute for the general hospital next door. |
| Subdistrict health-promoting hospitals | 45 across the province | All six districts | The primary-care layer underneath everything above: In Buri 17, Bang Rachan 7, Mueang Sing Buri 7, Phrom Buri 6, Khai Bang Rachan 5, Tha Chang 3. In Buri holding 17 of the 45 is consistent with it being both the largest district by area and the most populous. |
Where you go when Sing Buri cannot do it
| Destination | Level | Location | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lop Buri hospitals | The nearest large provincial centre, east | ~33km, indicative ~31 min drive | The closest out-of-province option, and the direction the road and the railway both run. Lopburi 2 (Tha Wung) station, in the district bordering Sing Buri, opened in December 2025. |
| Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Hospital | MOPH regional hospital (โรงพยาบาลศูนย์), Health Region 4 | ~70km, indicative ~48 min drive | The regional-grade hospital for this part of Health Region 4, which is the health region Sing Buri sits in. Reached south via Ang Thong on Route 309 and Highway 32. |
| Bangkok university & private hospitals | Full tertiary and quaternary care | ~140–145km, indicative ~1h35–1h45 drive outside rush hour | For anything requiring a national centre. The Asian Highway — six to eight lanes for most of its length since the 2008–09 widening — makes this a genuinely usable option from Sing Buri in a way it is not from most small provinces. |
This is the honest shape of healthcare in Sing Buri: routine, urgent and a good deal of secondary care handled locally and handled well, anything genuinely specialist referred out of province. What distinguishes Sing Buri from most provinces that share that pattern is depth at the second tier — the second general hospital at In Buri means a large part of the province is not dependent on a single facility — and the road. Highway 32 is a six-to-eight-lane Asian Highway route running the length of the province, Lop Buri is immediately east, Ayutthaya is south, and Bangkok is about 140 kilometres away. A province without a regional hospital but with two general hospitals and a motorway is in a materially better position than one with neither.
What Sing Buri Hospital actually treats, clinic by clinic
The gap in the previous version of this page was a real one: we said Sing Buri Hospital offered general care without naming what that meant. Its published weekday specialist-clinic roster is broader than a 282-bed provincial hospital typically runs — internal medicine, stroke (CVD), pulmonology, hypertension and cardiology, diabetes, gastroenterology and hepatology, infectious disease, nephrology with two dialysis clinics, TB, pain management, geriatrics, post-partum and well-baby clinics, and a rehabilitation-medicine service covering both internal and orthopaedic referrals. That is what “general hospital” means in practice here, and it is consistent with a facility that also runs an evening specialty clinic (SMC, Monday and Tuesday 16:30–20:30) for people who cannot get a weekday morning slot. What we still cannot verify is capacity — how full these clinics run, and how long a new patient waits for a first appointment in each one — so treat the list as what is offered, not as a promise of same-week access.
In Buri Hospital's specialisation is different and, for this audience, arguably more relevant: its own published vision names it a leader in elderly care and health rehabilitation, and its current fiscal-year targets are explicitly built around growing its Intermediate Care caseload — including patients referred in from outside In Buri district for exactly that reason. Its weekday OPD roster runs internal medicine, orthopaedics, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, Thai traditional medicine, telemedicine, psychiatry, a slow-progression kidney-disease clinic, peritoneal dialysis and a dedicated elderly clinic on Fridays. If ongoing rehabilitation or elder care is the deciding factor rather than raw bed count, this is the hospital to ask about first.
What we could not verify, and are not publishing
We now publish indicative drive times to all three referral destinations, sourced to route-distance calculators rather than an official transport authority, so treat the minutes as a planning estimate rather than a guaranteed transit time — traffic through Ang Thong and into Bangkok will add to all of them at peak hours. We now publish street addresses and telephone numbers for six of the eight facilities in the table above, compiled from each hospital's public directory listing rather than confirmed against the hospital's own site in every case; call before relying on a number for anything urgent. Two things we still will not state as fact: whether Khai Bang Rachan Hospital and the similarly-named Camp Bang Rachan Hospital that appears on Sing Buri Hospital's own referral-network list are the same facility or two different ones — the names collide and we have not resolved it; and the exact current bed count at In Buri Hospital, which we have seen published as both 150 and 159 depending on the source and are printing as a range rather than picking one. If either distinction matters to your decision, confirm directly with the facility.
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Sources & References
- Sing Buri province (health facilities, bed counts & clinic distribution) — Wikipedia
- In Buri district — Wikipedia
- Highway 32 (Thailand) — Wikipedia
- Lopburi 2 (Tha Wung) railway station — Wikipedia
- Sing Buri Hospital — directory listing, history, bed count & clinic schedule — HealthServ.net
- In Buri Hospital — directory listing, history, vision & OPD schedule — HealthServ.net
- Tha Chang Hospital — directory listing & founding date — HealthServ.net
- Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
- National Statistical Office, Thailand
- Office of Insurance Commission (OIC), Thailand
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General information, not medical, insurance or legal advice. Bed counts, service lines and hospital classifications change — confirm directly with the facility or the Ministry of Public Health before relying on them. Hero photograph via Pexels.
