Surin Hospital

Surin Hospital โรงพยาบาลสุรินทร์
The Ministry of Public Health Health District 9
File:Logo of Surin Hospital.jpg
File:Surin Hospital - โรงพยาบาลสุรินทร์.jpg
Geography
Location	68 Lak Mueang Road, Nai Mueang Subdistrict, Mueang Surin District, Surin 32000, Thailand
Coordinates	14.876813°N 103.502736°E / 14.876813; 103.502736 (Surin Hospital)
Organisation
Type	Regional
Affiliated university	Institute of Medicine, Suranaree University of Technology
Services
Beds	914
History
Opened	1 March 1951
Links
Website	www.surinhospital.org
Lists	Hospitals in Thailand

Surin Hospital (Thai: โรงพยาบาลสุรินทร์) is the main hospital of Surin Province, Thailand. It is classified under the Ministry of Public Health as a regional hospital. It has a CPIRD Medical Education Center which trains doctors for the Institute of Medicine of Suranaree University of Technology.

History

The funding for the construction of a hospital in Surin Province was donated by a monk "Khunaros Silakhan Khanananthamma", the abbot of Jumphon Suthawas Temple in Surin. The foundation stone was laid on 28 March 1949 and the hospital opened on 1 March 1951 as a single-storey wooden building with 50 beds and two full-time doctor. By 1956, an X-ray and Surgical Department was constructed. The hospital was then gradually expanded and became a regional hospital on 29 April 1997. It started Hospital Accreditation work (HA) in 1998 and first received ISO 9001:2000 on 2 August 2001. Today, it serves up to 914 beds with 2,709 staff.

See also

• Healthcare in Thailand
• Hospitals in Thailand
• List of hospitals in Thailand

References

• Article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Thai wikipedia.