Where is this hospital?

[NewGuy]

This is one side of an hospital id; it's about 15 years old. What and where is the hospital and which King is represented in the photo?

 

Thanks.

 

[NewGuy]

Oops. I'm a novice in attachments.

[allane]

The building looks like the new part of the Vajira Hospital on Samsen Road in Bangkok, though it is not set in a green field.  If I am correct,the statue is presumably of King Vajiravuth (Phraram 6), who founded it.

[NewGuy]

Thanks a lot. I passed the info along as my own, hopefully impressing a former backpacker with the breadth of my knowledge, haha.

[allane]

If you have any way of enlarging that photo, I, and others, could then read the sign on the side of the building.

[NewGuy]

Yeah allane, tried blowing it up and destroyed ledgibility.

 

cheers.

[katana]

The Thai lettering says Vajira Hospital. This hospital was founded in Dusit District, Bangkok in 1912 by King Rama VI of Thailand. So presumably the statue is Rama VI.