MRI Scan

[doctormann]

Does Banglamung Pattaya hospital have an MRI Scanner?

[lovelomsak]

why not ask Banglamung Patttaya hospital.?

[doctormann]

16 minutes ago, lovelomsak said:

why not ask Banglamung Patttaya hospital.?

Thank you for that - not - very helpful response!

I'm rather looking for info from anyone who has used their service - if, in fact, it exists.  Their website is in Thai only.

[Sheryl]

I very, very much doubt it, that level of hospital almost never does.

 

In the government system you will find MRIs mainly in regional level and teaching hospitals, occasionally at a provincial hospital. Not ata community hospital like Banglamung.

 

And, even where there is an MRI machine, most patients end up paying out of pocket to go to a private imaging center as the wait list is very, very long.

 

AFAIK in Pattaya itself the only hospital with an MRI is BPH.

 

See

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018447-mri-scan-options-for-pattaya-resident/

 

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040196-best-bang-for-buck-mri-scan-pattaya/

 

 

[doctormann]

37 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

I very, very much doubt it, that level of hospital almost never does.

 

In the government system you will find MRIs mainly in regional level and teaching hospitals, occasionally at a provincial hospital. Not ata community hospital like Banglamung.

 

And, even where there is an MRI machine, most patients end up paying out of pocket to go to a private imaging center as the wait list is very, very long.

 

AFAIK in Pattaya itself the only hospital with an MRI is BPH.

 

See

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1018447-mri-scan-options-for-pattaya-resident/

 

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1040196-best-bang-for-buck-mri-scan-pattaya/

 

 

I rather thought that this might be the case.

 

The reason for my post was that my wife has to have an MRI scan on her knee.  She has previously been seen at Queen Sirikit but has decided to change to Banglamung - not a good decision, I'm sure.  She seems to be under the impression that she can get an MRI scan at Banglamung and has been told that this will cost 10,500 Baht.  This doesn't sound right to me.  I did ask if she was sure that it was for an MRI and not a CAT scan and she said MRI.  Supposed to be happening tomorrow so we shall see.

[Sheryl]

Let me know. Could be they are referring her to an imaging center for it - if she is covered under the 30 baht scheme that would explain why she has to pay what sounds like a private price.

[doctormann]

1 minute ago, Sheryl said:

Let me know. Could be they are referring her to an imaging center for it - if she is covered under the 30 baht scheme that would explain why she has to pay what sounds like a private price.

I'll get back to you - assuming that I get a coherent story out of her!

I'm not sure about the 30 Baht scheme.  She does have health and accident insurance but the knee problem isn't due to an accident and the health insurance doesn't cover out-patent procedures.  Just can't win, as usual! 

[Sheryl]

If she is Thai she is eligible for free care (in and out patient) at the government hospital which covers the location where she is listed in a tabian ban. This might be why she switched to Banglamung.

 

10,500 is what a knee MRI would likely cost at private imaging center.

[doctormann]

22 hours ago, Sheryl said:

If she is Thai she is eligible for free care (in and out patient) at the government hospital which covers the location where she is listed in a tabian ban. This might be why she switched to Banglamung.

 

10,500 is what a knee MRI would likely cost at private imaging center.

OK, wife went for MRI scan.

Referred to Sametivej, Sri Racha.

Got a massive 500Baht discount off their normal price as she was referred by Banglamung!

 

 

[Aussieroaming]

On 11/19/2018 at 2:02 AM, doctormann said:

Thank you for that - not - very helpful response!

I'm rather looking for info from anyone who has used their service - if, in fact, it exists.  Their website is in Thai only.

Just in case you arent familiar, I google with Google Chrome, which translates all foreign script to English, quite helpful sometimes. You may already use it, if so disregard the comment. Good luck.

[doctormann]

2 hours ago, Aussieroaming said:

Just in case you arent familiar, I google with Google Chrome, which translates all foreign script to English, quite helpful sometimes. You may already use it, if so disregard the comment. Good luck.

Yes, i am well aware of this.

However, it doesn't help at all with graphical content - you would need to do OCR for that, before letting Google loose on it.  

Some web pages translate better than others - those with a lot of graphical content usually don't come out very well, to say the least. 

I haven't found any online translator that makes a decent job of dealing with the Thai script.  Single words or very short phrases sometimes make sense but anything else is fairly useless - although the results are sometimes quite amusing.

You can iterate, of course, by using back translation - rinse and repeat -but this is not too helpful on Thai.  Seems to work quite well on Europen languages though.