Vachira Phuket Hospital

Vachira Phuket is the province's public referral hospital, a 650-bed tertiary-level centre under the Ministry of Public Health with 16 operating rooms. As a government hospital it runs on public-sector lines, and most of its website is in Thai.

Emergency care is delivered through a Smart Emergency Room and an Accident Centre, with ambulances dispatched through the national 1669 line. The Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine centre treats decompression sickness and other diving injuries, takes referrals from across southern Thailand, and offers diver and maritime medical checks. Other centres include the Andaman Heart Centre, cancer care, bariatric surgery, neurosurgery and spinal surgery.

Patients who want a private-style appointment can use the Special Medical Clinic or the Premium Clinic, and special inpatient rooms are available at published daily rates. It may suit divers who need hyperbaric treatment, and residents who need specialist referral care in Phuket.

• 650 beds, 16 operating rooms
• Hyperbaric chamber for diving injuries
• Accident Centre
• Ambulance via 1669
• HA accredited to 2027

Worth confirming: Fees for non-Thai patients are not published; ask for an estimate, and whether your travel insurer is accepted, before non-urgent treatment.

Vachira Phuket runs an antenatal clinic and an obstetrics and gynaecology examination room on the 2nd floor of the outpatient building, where it opened an infertility clinic in 2023.

Mothers are admitted to obstetric wards on the 3rd and 4th floors, with private rooms available at published daily rates. Babies who need intensive care go to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit in the Baan Khun Phum building, which also houses a sick-newborn ward. As the province's referral hospital, it also has the Andaman Heart Centre, surgery and other specialist services on site if a pregnancy becomes complicated.

The website gives little English-language detail on maternity care. It may suit Phuket residents who want public-hospital maternity care with neonatal intensive care on site.

• Antenatal clinic
• Neonatal intensive care unit
• Sick-newborn ward
• Infertility clinic

OB-GYN examination room: outpatient building, 2nd floor

Worth confirming: The website has no English details for the antenatal clinic or labour ward; call ahead about registration, fees for non-Thai patients and English-speaking staff.