Healthcare in Yasothon

The hospitals

One warning about names before you start phoning. The provincial health office's October 2024 return to Health Region 10 lists the province's two private hospitals as Han International (60 beds) and Dr. Han (50 beds). The Healthcare Accreditation Institute's register and the operator's own investor site instead use Ruampat Yasothon Hospital (59 registered beds) alongside Dr. Han, and Ruampat Yasothon's public website is drhann.com. Two government registers and one company therefore use three name-and-number combinations for the same two buildings. We publish all of them and do not reconcile them, because a reader ringing round needs to recognise whichever name they are given.

What the Ministry's own register says

Older versions of this page declined to publish a bed count for Yasothon Hospital because the directories disagreed. That was honest and it was also unnecessary: the Ministry publishes the answer itself. On the facility register the hospital is โรงพยาบาลทั่วไป, service-plan Level S — a large general hospital — under the Office of the Permanent Secretary, at 26 Chaeng Sanit Road in tambon Tat Thong, with 489 beds in actual use and facility code EA0010701.

The register also keeps a change log, and it is the reason the directories disagree. The bed figure was corrected from 485 to 489 on 27 August 2025 from a March 2025 survey, then revised again on 5 May 2026 from the 2025 financial-year facility report as at March 2026. A bed count without a date attached to it is not really a fact, and any figure you find quoted for this hospital without one is a snapshot of some earlier point on that curve. There is one small unresolved discrepancy: the register puts the hospital at Moo 8 and the hospital's own website at Moo 7 of the same road. We have not been able to settle it and note it rather than choose.

How Yasothon compares — and why one number is not enough

Health Region 10 publishes something no single hospital website can: the same two ratios for all five of its provinces, side by side, with the national figures for reference. This is as at 30 June 2024, sourced from the provincial health offices.

Read across, not down one column. Yasothon has the second-best doctor ratio of the five — behind Ubon Ratchathani and ahead of Amnat Charoen, Mukdahan and Si Sa Ket. It also has the second-thinnest bed ratio of the five, and it is thinner on beds than the country as a whole. Publishing only the first of those would suggest a well-staffed province; publishing only the second would suggest a struggling one. Both are true at once, and together they describe something specific: relative to its neighbours, Yasothon is a place where you can get seen, in a region where beds are the tighter constraint at the moment of admission.

Two hospitals, one operator, one kilometre apart

It is easy to read "two private hospitals" as a healthy local market. Here it is not one. Both belong to Mukdahan International Hospital Public Company Limited — SET-listed as HANN — which also runs Mukdahan International Hospital, and the operator's own disclosure notes that its two Yasothon facilities sit roughly a kilometre from one another. One company, one pricing policy, one referral network, two buildings within walking distance.

The larger of the two is a medium-sized general hospital with 59 registered beds, 5 outpatient examination rooms, 2 major operating theatres, a delivery room, 15 dialysis machines and 37 physicians as of 31 March 2025. It publishes a service list covering general medicine, women's health, surgery, orthopaedics, heart and vascular care, anaesthesia, urology, kidney care, neurology, radiology and emergency medicine. The dialysis capacity is the single most consequential item on that list for anyone considering a long stay with a chronic condition: it is the difference between a local routine and a standing appointment a hundred kilometres away.

On quality, the public record is more useful than any brochure and it does not flatter. The Healthcare Accreditation Institute's certification history for that hospital records step 2 certification six times between December 2016 and November 2024, and full Accreditation never. Six renewals over nine years show a hospital that keeps engaging with the standard; they also show one that has not cleared its top bar. The current certificate expires on 24 November 2026 — a date worth checking against the register yourself rather than taking our word for indefinitely.

A teaching hospital, by Cabinet decision

On 28 April 2026 the Cabinet approved a Faculty of Medicine at Nakhon Phanom University: 2,502 million baht, ten years, financial years 2027 to 2036, with the first medical students admitted in the 2028 academic year. The approved plan does not stop at Nakhon Phanom. It includes upgrading three provincial hospitals into clinical medical education centres — Nakhon Phanom, Loei and Yasothon. By 2036 the programme expects at least 71 doctors produced for the region, with a further 216 medical students still in training behind them.

Two things are worth drawing out. The first is that the three chosen hospitals do not share a health region: Nakhon Phanom and Loei sit in Health Region 8, Yasothon in Health Region 10. The teaching group follows a university's reach, not the Ministry's referral map, so this creates a second institutional relationship for Yasothon Hospital pointing north rather than east. The second is timing. None of this changes a consultation booked next month. What it changes is the ten-year direction of travel: a Level S hospital that is scheduled to acquire trainees, teachers and the specialist depth that follows them is a different long-term proposition from one that is simply holding its position.

What stays here, what leaves, and what the province simply does not have

Routine and moderate care is handled locally and handled reasonably: the Level S hospital and the nine district hospitals cover primary care, maternity, routine surgery and emergency stabilisation, the private pair add faster outpatient access, and dialysis is available in the province. Complex cardiology, oncology, neurosurgery, major trauma and most sub-specialist work go east to Ubon Ratchathani, which the region's own documents put at 100 kilometres, and which hosts the regional office and a shared referral platform, Smart Refer, covering all five provinces.

The absences are worth stating precisely, because they are proven rather than assumed. Health Region 10 publishes the complete list of state hospitals in the region outside the Permanent Secretary's line, and every one of the six is in Ubon Ratchathani — a 750-bed psychiatric hospital, a 200-bed cancer hospital, a maternal and child health hospital, a university hospital and two Defence hospitals. Yasothon has none of these categories anywhere in the province. If you are moving here with a mental-health condition needing inpatient specialist care, or an oncology pathway, the nearest state provision of that kind is in the next province and there is no local alternative to fall back on.

What we could not verify, and are not publishing

We could not open a district-by-district bed table for the nine community hospitals, so this page names them and stops there rather than assigning numbers. We could not confirm an international patient department, an interpreter service or direct-billing arrangements at either private hospital. There is no published ambulance response-time data for the province that we could find. We have not found a facility register record for either private hospital and so publish no code for them. And the arithmetic that the provincial hospital holds most of the province's beds is suggested by the register's 489 sitting inside the region's provincial total of 650, but those two figures carry different dates and possibly different scopes, so we describe it and do not compute a percentage from it.

Frequently asked

Sources & References

• Yasothon Hospital — MOPH health facility register (hcode), record 19248
• Health Region 10 — general information, resource and workforce tables
• Healthcare Accreditation Institute — certification history, Ruampat Yasothon Hospital
• Cabinet approval of the Nakhon Phanom University medical faculty (PRD, 28 April 2026)
• Ruampat Yasothon Hospital — operator investor disclosure
• Yasothon Hospital — official site
• Yasothon province — Wikipedia
• National Statistical Office, Thailand
• Tourism Authority of Thailand

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