Show this to your driver
โรงพยาบาลกระบี่
Say “rong phayaban Krabi”. On Utarakit Road in Krabi Town, a few minutes from the night market and the Chao Fah pier, about half an hour by road from Ao Nang; every driver in the province knows it.
- TypePublic — Ministry of Public Health general hospital (level S) and referral hospital for Krabi province
- BedsAbout 447
- Address325 Utarakit Road, Pak Nam, Mueang Krabi, Krabi 81000
- Switchboard+66 75 626 700
- Switchboard, second line+66 75 611 202
- Emailkrabihospital@yahoo.com
- Websitekrabihospital.go.th
- LanguagesThai; limited English, mostly in the emergency department
- On the mapOpen in Google Maps
The big public hospital for the whole province. With 447 beds it is by far the largest hospital in Krabi, the Ministry of Public Health’s referral centre for every district hospital from Ao Luek to Koh Lanta, and the place the ambulance takes an uninsured casualty from the coast. Public-hospital prices, long queues, paperwork mostly in Thai.
What it is known for
Size and reach. Krabi Hospital is the Ministry of Public Health’s general hospital for the province — 447 beds, level S in the ministry’s grading — and the referral hospital that every district hospital in Krabi, Koh Lanta’s included, sends its serious cases to. Every major department is here: surgery, orthopaedics, obstetrics, paediatrics, intensive care, dialysis and the specialist clinics the small hospitals lack. In 2015 it opened a six-storey accident, emergency and natural-disaster building, planned with the tourist coast in mind, and its emergency department is where the province’s road-accident casualties and the complicated cases from Ao Nang and the islands end up when there is no insurer to pay for a private bed.
Who it suits
Travellers without insurance who need real care at a price they can pay, long-stay residents who hold Thai social security, and anyone in a serious emergency for whom it is simply the nearest big hospital — from Ao Nang it is no further than the private alternative in town. It is not the place for a quick English-language consultation: the outpatient queues are long, the wards are crowded, forms are in Thai and English is limited to the emergency department and some of the doctors. Bring a Thai-speaking friend or your hotel’s help if you can, and if you are insured and the situation allows, use one of the private hospitals instead.
Cost and insurance
Public-hospital prices. Foreigners are charged more than Thai citizens but still a fraction of what either private hospital in the province bills for the same treatment; a consultation with tests and medicine usually costs less than a night in a mid-range Ao Nang hotel. Payment is in cash or by card at the cashier before you leave. Insurers almost never direct-bill a public hospital, so expect to pay and claim: bring your passport, and ask for an itemised receipt and a medical certificate in English before you go — both are routine requests, but they are not offered unless you ask.
Getting there
On Utarakit Road in Krabi Town, a few minutes from the night market and the Chao Fah pier; the town is small enough that any tuk-tuk, taxi or Grab driver knows it. From Ao Nang allow half an hour by road for the twenty kilometres, longer in the evening; the white songthaews between Ao Nang and town run through the day and stop close by. From Koh Lanta it is about an hour and a half by road plus the ferry. In an emergency call 1669 rather than driving — the ambulance is free, and for an uninsured patient this is usually where it comes.
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 3 hospitals in Krabi, Ao Nang and Koh Lanta
- Krabi Nakharin International HospitalPrivate, about 100 beds, Pisanpop Road, Krabi Town.
- Wattanapat Hospital Ao NangPrivate, about 56 beds, Khlong Haeng road, inland from Ao Nang beach.
- Koh Lanta HospitalPublic, about 30 beds, East coast of Lanta Yai, by Lanta Old Town.
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