Chalong Hospital finally opens with limited services, expansion to come in 2020 

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Nurses attend to a patient at Chalong Hospital. Photo: Tanyaluk Sakoot
 

PHUKET: Chalong Hospital has finally opened, providing people in the south of the island with a limited range of medical services until a new seven-storey building dedicated to inpatient services is finally approved and built.
 

There are five doctors and 21 nurses now on staff, working out of the well-known blue building that has sat empty for well over a year, Chalong Hospital Director Dr Chuchart Nijwattana told The Phuket News this week.

 

“Only the ground floor and first floor are currently used by hospital staff. The top two floors remain unoccupied,” he said.

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"Construction has even yet to begin for a separate two-story “x-ray room building” to be built from a B14mn donation from the administrators of the Put Cho Shrine. The donation includes paying for an x-ray machine.

“We are waiting for the Ministry of Health to approve the construction. I don’t know when they will grant their approval,” Dr Chuchart said."

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Every hospital requires an X-ray department, the money to build one has been donated, yet the Ministry has still not approved it years down the track.

that's assuming the money donated is still in the hospital coffers...

So what are they building in front of the blue one?

12 hours ago, Valentine said:

So what are they building in front of the blue one?

 

I was at the hospital this morning. Asked about that construction. This will be the emergency ambulance bay and reception. ER care area.

 

Then the old clinic/ER will be pulled down. Looks like a a year's work at least.