Hospitals in Pattaya

Pattaya is unusually well served for a city of its size, because it has had to be: a resort of high-rise hotels, scooters and late nights generates a steady stream of accidents and illnesses, and the Eastern Seaboard’s industrial belt and its large retiree population have paid for hospitals to match. The result is a choice that many capital cities cannot offer — an internationally accredited private hospital, a modern second private hospital in the south, two long-serving private hospitals in the centre, a municipal hospital a few streets from the nightlife and a near-500-bed public referral hospital in the north.

This page lists all six with the practical detail: what kind of hospital it 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; switchboards do change, so if a number fails, call 1669.

The 6 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 Bangkok Hospital Pattaya: it has the trauma centre, the specialists and the interpreters. Staying in Jomtien, Pratumnak or South Pattaya? Jomtien Hospital is its newer, cheaper sister and much closer. For a minor illness or injury in the centre, where you want to be seen in English, Pattaya International Hospital on Soi 4 and Pattaya Memorial Hospital on Central Pattaya Road will see you quickly, at mid-range and budget private prices respectively. Without insurance and short of money, Pattaya City Hospital on Soi Buakhao is the nearest public option in the centre, and Pattaya Bhattamakun Hospital in Na Kluea is the big public hospital for anything serious. In a genuine life-or-death emergency go to the nearest emergency room of any of the six, or call 1669 and let the ambulance crew decide.

What will it cost?

Roughly three tiers. Public hospitals charge foreigners more than Thais but still very little by Western standards: a consultation, tests and medicine at Pattaya City or Pattaya Bhattamakun typically comes to less than a mid-range hotel night, and even an admission is affordable. The mid-market private hospitals — Pattaya International, Pattaya Memorial and, a step up, Jomtien — charge a few times that for the same outpatient visit and expect a deposit if you are admitted. Bangkok Hospital Pattaya is priced like the top Bangkok hospitals, which is to say like a Western private hospital: with insurance it is worth every baht, without it a serious admission runs into the hundreds of thousands of baht. Ask for a written estimate before any procedure at any of them.

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. 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, 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.

Getting there and ambulances

Every hospital on this list runs its own ambulance, and the private ones will send one when you call the number on its page. The national ambulance number is 1669; it is free, and it takes you to the nearest appropriate hospital, which for an uninsured patient usually means a public one. For anything that can wait ten minutes, a Bolt or Grab car is the fastest way across town; songthaews are cheap but slow, and a motorbike taxi is no place for an injury. Sukhumvit Road, where Bangkok Hospital Pattaya and Jomtien Hospital sit, is jammed from late afternoon into the evening — allow for it.

Beyond Pattaya

Two large private hospitals in Sriracha, thirty to forty minutes north up Sukhumvit, are worth knowing about if you are based at the northern end of the coast: Samitivej Sriracha (+66 38 320 300) and Phyathai Sriracha (+66 38 317 333). Bangkok’s international hospitals are two hours away by road and are where the most serious cases are ultimately transferred.

Pharmacies

For a cold, a stomach upset, a rash or a hangover 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. Boots and Watsons in the malls are the easy option; the independent pharmacies along Second Road and Soi Buakhao stay open late. Check expiry dates, and see a doctor if a fever lasts more than a couple of days: dengue is present in Chonburi and needs a blood test, not a pharmacy.

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