Private hospital, Phetkasem Road, north-east of the centre. Accident and emergency centre open 24 hours.
Bangkok Hospital Hat Yai
The south’s flagship private hospital — a 400-bed BDMS hospital on Phetkasem Road with a 24-hour emergency centre, where most insured visitors end up.
Ambulance and medical emergency: 1669. Tourist Police: 1155. Police: 191.
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Say “rong phayaban Krungthep Hat Yai”. On Phetkasem Road at Soi 15, about 2.5 km north-east of the railway station and ten minutes by car from Kim Yong market.
- TypePrivate — Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS) group
- BedsAbout 400
- Address75 Soi 15, Phetkasem Road, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110
- Switchboard+66 74 272 800
- BDMS hotline from a Thai phone1719
- Websitebangkokhospital.com/en/hatyai
- HoursAccident and emergency centre open 24 hours
- LanguagesInterpreters in English and Malay (the hospital lists three interpreter languages)
- Opened1997
- On the mapOpen in Google Maps
The biggest private hospital in the lower south: 400 beds on Phetkasem Road north-east of the centre, part of the Bangkok Dusit Medical Services group since it opened in 1997, with a 24-hour accident and emergency centre, a heart centre with its own catheterisation lab, MRI and CT, and interpreters for English and Malay. It is where the smaller hospitals send the cases they cannot handle, and where an insurer will usually want you taken.
What it is known for
The widest private specialist cover south of Bangkok. Bangkok Hospital Hat Yai opened in 1997 as a BDMS hospital and has grown to 400 beds, with a heart centre that does angiography, angioplasty and bypass surgery on site, a laparoscopic surgery centre, a gastroenterology and liver centre, and an accident and emergency centre staffed around the clock by emergency physicians with general surgeons, neurosurgeons, orthopaedic and cardiothoracic specialists on call. The imaging is the best in the region — MRI, a 64-slice cardiac CT, digital X-ray — and it is the hospital the clinics and smaller hospitals of Hat Yai transfer their serious cases to. Patients come from across the lower south and over the border from northern Malaysia.
Who it suits
Anyone with travel insurance, anyone with a serious illness or injury, and anyone who wants to be treated in English without waiting. The hospital lists interpreters in three languages, English and Malay among them, and its staff handle insurance guarantees and the paperwork insurers and embassies ask for afterwards. Malaysians drive up from Kedah, Perlis and Penang for planned treatment here, so the reception desks are used to foreign passports. It is also the sensible destination if you are hurt on the road anywhere between the border and Hat Yai and have cover: the ambulance crew will know it, and so will every taxi driver in the city.
Cost and insurance
The most expensive hospital in Hat Yai, and priced like the private hospitals of Bangkok — though a little below the capital’s flagships. Direct billing is offered only to insurers the hospital has a contract with, and usually only for an admission; outpatient visits are pay-and-claim. Expect to be asked for a deposit if you are admitted without a guarantee of payment, so call your insurer’s assistance line first if the situation allows. Ask for a written estimate before any procedure, keep every receipt and the discharge summary, and ask for the medical certificate in English before you leave — both are needed for a claim.
Getting there
On Phetkasem Road at Soi 15, about 2.5 km north-east of Hat Yai Junction railway station and ten minutes by car from Kim Yong market; the Prince of Songkla University campus is a couple of kilometres further east. Grab works in Hat Yai, and any taxi or tuk-tuk driver knows the hospital by name — say “rong phayaban Krungthep”. From the airport allow twenty to thirty minutes, from the Sadao border about an hour. In an emergency call the switchboard on +66 74 272 800, or the BDMS hotline 1719 from a Thai phone, and ask for an ambulance rather than driving in yourself.
Details checked against the hospital’s own website, September 2026. Call before a non-urgent visit; in an emergency call 1669 or the hospital’s own emergency line above. Travel information, not medical advice.
The other 5 hospitals in Hat Yai and Songkhla
- Songklanagarind HospitalPublic, about 853 beds, PSU campus, Kanchanavanich Road, east of the centre.
- Hat Yai HospitalPublic, about 700 beds, Ratthakan Road, 1.5 km north of the station.
- Songkhla HospitalPublic, about 508 beds, Songkhla-Ranot Road (Highway 408), Phawong.
- Sikarin Hatyai HospitalPrivate, about 200 beds, Niphat Songkhro 1 Road, 2 km north of the station.
- Thonburi Rajyindee HospitalPrivate, about 196 beds, Rajyindee Road, 1.5 km east of the station.