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New Phuket Hospital Puts Off Admissions Start Date

By Chutima Sidasathian

Friday, July 1, 2011

PHUKET: Phuket's newest hospital has put off taking admissions for at least two weeks. Director Dr Yee Yitathasiri said the Phuket Provincial Administrative Organisation Hospital had hoped to open for in-patients from today.

''We want to make sure everything is just the way it should be,'' he told Phuketwan. ''At the moment, a little more work needs to be done.

''We hope to be able to open for admissions in about two weeks.''

The new hospital, Phuket's seventh, is private and available for both Thai and expat residents and visitors. The 327-million-baht facility is likely to ease pressure on Vachira Phuket Hospital, Phuket's largest public hospital.

In the first phase of its opening, the Phuket Provincial Administrative Organisation Hospital launched for day-patients on May 31.

Run by Thonburi Hospital Public Company Ltd, with about 130 beds to be available eventually, the hospital also has five operating rooms, a CAT scanner that takes 64 slides, and 14 stations for kidney dialysis.

It's to the east of Phuket City, on Anuphas Phuket Karn Road, the main route to Koh Sireh.

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Will they have staff speaking English as at Vachira Hospital it is nearly impossible to have nurses or doctors speaking fairly English.
For that reason, international hospital in Phuket abuse of that situation and overcharge foreign patients.

Posted by Whistle-Blower on July 1, 2011 12:25

if you use government hospitals you can not require that they can speak English, maybe better if you learn Thai! otherwise go to international hospitals were they speak perfect english!

Posted by Mika on July 1, 2011 14:56

#Whistle-Blower. Please realise that you are in Thailand. Government hospitals deal,in the main, with Thai people. If you use Vachira learn to speak Thai. If you want a cheap hospital where nurses speak English, go to Zimbabwe.

Posted by Pete on July 2, 2011 07:58

" ... is private and available for both Thai and expat residents and visitors. "
Whistle-Blower, I totally agree with you. The advertisement above, implies that doctors and most nurses are able to communicate in English.

Posted by Mario on July 3, 2011 07:42

Editor Comment:

What ''advertisement,'' Mario? Are you writing without thinking yet again in the hope of drawing more attention to yourself? Take the day off, Mario.

Dear Ed, why are you so punctilious?
That paragraph of the reportage, sounds like an advertisement.
Probably, we both need a day off!

Posted by Mario on July 3, 2011 08:31

Editor Comment:

I don't get days off, Mario. There are too many contrarians constantly trying to get noticed, rather than providing real opinions or information - the reason why we established the Comment section.

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