PHUKET: Expansion work at Patong Hospital aims to double its capacity this year, with a second major addition of an International Rehabilitation Centre already approved by Cabinet earlier this month.
The present 60-bed hospital will be enlarged to six storeys and 120 beds by work in progress that should be complete in February 2013, says hospital Deputy Director Wanitchaya Tongnab.
The enlargements will also add a two-bed Intensive Care Unit and a birthing centre. In May, five doctors and 18 nurses are to be added to the present staff of 13 doctors and 75 nurses among a total staff of 300.
A helicopter landing pad atop a building is to be added.
The International Rehabilitation Centre, proposed for construction from next year, will cost 325.65 million baht. Cabinet, meeting on Phuket this month, approved the project in principle.
The centre would be of four storeys, adding perhaps as many as 60 more beds and giving Patong a centre for holistic medicine, medical massage and a spa with a specialist team.
Patong Hospital is usually the place where victims of incidents of all kinds on Phuket's west coast are taken before more seriously injured or ill patients are transferred to better-equipped east coast facilities.
The present 60-bed hospital will be enlarged to six storeys and 120 beds by work in progress that should be complete in February 2013, says hospital Deputy Director Wanitchaya Tongnab.
The enlargements will also add a two-bed Intensive Care Unit and a birthing centre. In May, five doctors and 18 nurses are to be added to the present staff of 13 doctors and 75 nurses among a total staff of 300.
A helicopter landing pad atop a building is to be added.
The International Rehabilitation Centre, proposed for construction from next year, will cost 325.65 million baht. Cabinet, meeting on Phuket this month, approved the project in principle.
The centre would be of four storeys, adding perhaps as many as 60 more beds and giving Patong a centre for holistic medicine, medical massage and a spa with a specialist team.
Patong Hospital is usually the place where victims of incidents of all kinds on Phuket's west coast are taken before more seriously injured or ill patients are transferred to better-equipped east coast facilities.
The heli landing is a great idea, as you can leave now this place for a hospital much faster.
Posted by Lena on March 28, 2012 13:56