Hospitals in Ayutthaya

Ayutthaya is a day trip for most of the people who visit it, and that shapes the medical picture: a provincial capital of modest size with one big public hospital, one serious private hospital and a scatter of smaller ones out along the highways serving the industrial estates, all within an hour and a half of Bangkok’s international hospitals. The good news is that the two hospitals a traveller is most likely to need are close: the provincial hospital is on the island itself, and Rajthanee is ten minutes east across the Pa Sak river. The typical visitor’s complaints here — bicycle and scooter falls on the ring road, heat exhaustion among the ruins, stomach upsets — are well within what either can handle.

This page lists four hospitals with the practical detail: what kind of hospital each is, roughly how big, where it is, how to call it and how to find it on a map. Every name opens a full page on that hospital. Details were checked against each hospital’s own website in September 2026 where one could be reached — the provincial hospital’s site could not be, so its numbers were cross-checked against two independent directories. Switchboards do change, so if a number fails, call 1669.

The 4 at a glance

Bed counts are approximate. Tap a name for the full page.

The hospitals

Which hospital should I go to?

For a serious emergency with insurance, or anything complicated, go to Rajthanee Hospital on Rojana Road: it is the province’s main private hospital, ten minutes east of the island, with a 24-hour emergency centre and its own ambulances. Without insurance and short of money, or if you are hurt on the island itself, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Hospital on U-Thong Road is the big public hospital — more than 500 beds, every department, public prices, long queues. Visiting Bang Pa-in Palace or driving the Asia Highway? Karunvej Hospital Ayutthaya at Khlong Chik is the nearest private emergency department. Out by the Rojana Industrial Park, Rajthanee Rojana Hospital is the local option. In a genuine life-or-death emergency go to the nearest of the four, or call 1669 and let the ambulance crew decide.

What will it cost?

Two tiers rather than the three you find in Bangkok or Pattaya, because Ayutthaya has no international hospital. The public hospital charges foreigners more than Thais but still very little by Western standards: a consultation, tests and medicine typically come to less than a mid-range guesthouse night, and even an admission is affordable. The three private hospitals are provincial private hospitals — a few times the public price for the same outpatient visit, a deposit if you are admitted, and a serious admission that still runs to tens of thousands of baht. That is well below what Bangkok’s international hospitals charge, which is one reason a complicated case is often stabilised and treated here first and moved later only if it has to be. Ask for a written estimate before any procedure at any of them, and keep every receipt.

Insurance, deposits and paperwork

Thai hospitals are used to travel insurance, and the private ones will call your insurer for a guarantee of payment — but only if the insurer has a contract with them, and usually only for an admission; outpatient visits are almost always pay-and-claim. Both Rajthanee hospitals publish lists of the insurers they work with, and Karunvej’s parent group has its own. If there is time, phone the assistance number on your policy before you go: it can name the hospital it prefers and open the claim. Take your passport, your policy number and any medication you are on, and after a road accident the rental agreement and your licence — the compulsory motor insurance on a rented scooter covers some injury costs, but only for a licensed rider. Always ask for an itemised receipt and an English-language medical certificate before you leave; at the public hospital you may have to ask twice.

Getting there and ambulances

The national ambulance number is 1669; it is free, and it takes you to the nearest appropriate hospital, which in Ayutthaya usually means the provincial hospital for an uninsured patient. Rajthanee, Rajthanee Rojana and Karunvej all run their own ambulances and will send one when you call the number on their pages; Rajthanee’s also do long-distance transfers. For anything that can wait ten minutes, a Grab car or one of the city’s tuk-tuks is the quickest way across town: the island is small, the provincial hospital is on its southern ring road and Rajthanee is ten to fifteen minutes east over the Pa Sak river. A bicycle or a hired scooter is the most common way visitors get hurt here in the first place; do not ride one to the hospital. Rojana Road jams at the factory shift changes, early in the morning and late in the afternoon.

Beyond Ayutthaya

Ayutthaya is 80 kilometres north of Bangkok, and for the most serious cases — major trauma, heart and brain surgery beyond what Rajthanee offers, anything an insurer wants handled at an international hospital — Bangkok is where you end up, about an hour and a half by road. The hospitals travellers and insurers usually head for are Bumrungrad International on Sukhumvit Soi 3, Bangkok Hospital on Soi Soonvijai off New Phetchaburi Road, and Samitivej Sukhumvit on Soi 49. A transfer happens by hospital ambulance when the treating hospital decides to move you, or through your insurer’s assistance company — ask, rather than assume a fixed arrangement exists. If you are well enough to travel on your own, the train or a taxi down the Asia Highway and Highway 1 does it in a morning, and Don Mueang airport lies on the way.

Pharmacies

For a cold, a stomach upset, a rash or a touch of heatstroke after a day among the ruins you do not need a hospital at all. Thai pharmacies sell most everyday medicines over the counter, including antibiotics and painkillers that would need a prescription at home, and a licensed pharmacist — look for the framed certificate — will usually speak enough English to advise. There are independent pharmacies along Naresuan Road and around Chao Phrom market on the island, and chain pharmacies in the Ayutthaya City Park mall and the big-box stores along Rojana Road, most of them open into the evening. Check expiry dates, drink more water than you think you need in the hot season, and see a doctor if a fever lasts more than a couple of days: dengue is present in the central plains and needs a blood test, not a pharmacy.

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Travel information, not medical advice.

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