Hospitals in Ubon Ratchathani

Ubon Ratchathani is the biggest city in the lower north-east and the place the whole region is sent to. Its public hospital, Sunpasitthiprasong, has around 1,188 beds — among the largest anywhere in Thailand outside Bangkok — and takes referrals from five provinces. Around it sits a small but genuine private sector: the province’s main private hospital a few streets east of the centre, a second private hospital on the northern highway that changed owner and name in September 2026, a 50-bed private hospital in the old town, and a large public general hospital across the Mun River in Warin Chamrap, where the railway station is. For a provincial city six hundred kilometres from the capital, that is a reasonable spread.

This page lists all five 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 in September 2026 against each hospital’s own website, Facebook page or the National Health Security Office register; switchboards do change, so if a number fails, call 1669.

The 5 at a glance

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

The hospitals

Which hospital should I go to?

For anything serious — a road accident, chest pain, a bad fall — go to Sunpasitthiprasong Hospital on Sunpasit Road. It is the regional hospital for five provinces, it has the specialists and the intensive care, and it is where the private hospitals send what they cannot handle. If you have travel insurance and the problem is not immediately life-threatening, Ubonrak Thonburi Hospital is the better first stop: private, central, accredited, with a 24-hour emergency department and shorter queues. For a minor illness or injury in the old town, Rom Klao Hospital on Upparat Road is a few minutes from Thung Si Mueang. Staying north of the city or wanting a second private option, try Kasemrad International Hospital on Chayangkun Road. Across the river in Warin Chamrap, near the railway station, Warin Chamrap Hospital is the public option.

What will it cost?

Two tiers, and the gap between them is wide. At the public hospitals — Sunpasitthiprasong and Warin Chamrap — a foreigner pays more than a Thai citizen but still very little by Western standards: a consultation, basic tests and medicine usually come to less than a night in a mid-range hotel, and even an admission is affordable. The private hospitals charge several times that for the same outpatient visit and ask for a deposit if you are admitted. Nothing in Ubon Ratchathani is priced like the international hospitals in Bangkok or Phuket, which is one of the quiet advantages of being treated in a provincial city. Ask for a written estimate before any procedure anywhere, 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 usually only for an admission, and only where the insurer has a contract with them. Outpatient visits are almost always pay-and-claim, and public hospitals are essentially 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 file. Take your passport, your policy number and any medication you are on; after a road accident, take the rental agreement and your licence as well. Ask for an itemised receipt and an English-language medical certificate before you leave — both are routine requests, but only if you ask.

Getting there and ambulances

The national ambulance number is 1669. It is free, it works everywhere in Thailand, and it takes you to the nearest appropriate hospital, which for an uninsured patient usually means a public one. The private hospitals run their own ambulances and will send one to the number on their page. For anything that can wait ten minutes, a taxi or a tuk-tuk is the fastest way across town; the numbered songthaews are cheap and run along the main roads, but they are slow and they are no place for an injury. Ubon Ratchathani is a compact, flat city and traffic is light by Thai standards, so most of these hospitals are ten or fifteen minutes apart.

The Mekong border and the parks

Most of what brings visitors to this province is a long way from any of these hospitals. Pha Taem National Park, on the cliffs above the Mekong at Khong Chiam, is roughly a hundred kilometres east, and the last stretch is slow enough that two hours each way is a fair allowance. The Emerald Triangle, where Thailand, Laos and Cambodia meet, is further still and remoter. The Lao border crossing at Chong Mek, on the road to Pakse, is around ninety kilometres east. There is nothing bigger than a small district hospital out that way, so a serious injury on the Mekong or at the border means the drive back to Ubon Ratchathani. In the other direction the city is well connected: the airport is about three kilometres from Thung Si Mueang, and Bangkok is about an hour away by air.

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 some 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 chain pharmacies in the malls and independents along the main roads of the old town and around the university, and several sit within a block of the hospitals themselves. Check expiry dates. See a doctor rather than a pharmacist if a fever lasts more than a couple of days: dengue is present across the north-east and needs a blood test.

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