Public hospital, Prince of Songkla University campus, Kanchanavanich Road.
Songklanagarind Hospital
The south’s university hospital — 853 beds on the Prince of Songkla campus, the tertiary referral centre for fourteen provinces and the best public medicine in the region.
Ambulance and medical emergency: 1669. Tourist Police: 1155. Police: 191.
Show this to your driver
โรงพยาบาลสงขลานครินทร์
Say “rong phayaban Mor Or” — the name every driver uses. On the Prince of Songkla University campus on Kanchanavanich Road, about 3 km east of the railway station.
Everyone, drivers included, calls it โรงพยาบาล ม.อ. — “Mor Or” — after the university’s Thai initials.
- TypePublic — Prince of Songkla University teaching hospital, the tertiary referral centre for southern Thailand
- BedsAbout 853
- Address15 Kanchanavanich Road, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110
- Switchboard+66 74 455 000
- Ambulance (national, free)1669
- Emailsupport.hospital@medicine.psu.ac.th
- Websitehospital.psu.ac.th
- LanguagesThai; English among the doctors and in the emergency department, less at the counters
- Opened1982
- On the mapOpen in Google Maps
Known to everyone as “Mor Or”, this is Prince of Songkla University’s teaching hospital: 853 beds, every specialty, and the place the whole of southern Thailand sends its hardest cases. It opened in 1982 and sits on the university campus on Kanchanavanich Road, about 3 km east of the railway station. Public prices, a formidable reputation and, as a result, serious crowds.
What it is known for
Depth. Songklanagarind is the teaching hospital of the Faculty of Medicine at Prince of Songkla University and the first advanced tertiary hospital in southern Thailand, opened in February 1982 to take the difficult and complicated cases from fourteen provinces. It has 853 beds and every major department, from cardiac surgery and neurosurgery to oncology, dialysis and neonatal intensive care, backed by the university’s laboratories and research. Its emergency department triages on the Emergency Severity Index, which means a genuine emergency is seen fast and a minor complaint waits. It is the hospital the other hospitals on this page, public and private, turn to when a patient is beyond them.
Who it suits
Travellers without insurance who are seriously ill or badly hurt and need first-rate medicine at public prices; anyone whose case needs a specialty the private hospitals do not have; and long-stay residents prepared to queue. It is not the place for a quick consultation for a cold: the outpatient clinics are enormous and slow, forms are in Thai, and although many doctors speak good English, the counters mostly do not. Take a Thai speaker if you can. The hospital also runs a paid premium clinic with shorter waits, worth asking about if you are not an emergency and can pay a little more.
Cost and insurance
Public-hospital prices, with a higher tariff for foreigners than for Thai citizens but still a fraction of any private bill in the city. Pay at the cashier in cash or by card before leaving; insurers rarely direct-bill a university hospital, so expect to pay and claim. Bring your passport. Ask for an itemised receipt and an English medical certificate before you go — the medical records office handles requests for treatment histories for insurance claims, and it is routine. Non-emergency use of the emergency room is charged separately, so go to the outpatient clinics in office hours for anything that can wait.
Getting there
On the Prince of Songkla University campus on Kanchanavanich Road, the main road east out of the centre towards Songkhla, about 3 km from Hat Yai Junction railway station and a similar distance from Kim Yong market. Any driver knows it as “rong phayaban Mor Or”; a Grab or taxi from the centre takes ten to fifteen minutes outside rush hour, and the local minibuses along Kanchanavanich Road pass the gate. Switchboard +66 74 455 000. In an emergency call 1669 for a free public ambulance rather than trying to find the emergency entrance yourself on a very large campus.
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
- 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.
- Bangkok Hospital Hat YaiPrivate, about 400 beds, Phetkasem Road Soi 15, north-east of the centre.
- 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.