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ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE FOR THE EXPAT IN ALL OF US What’s happening, and might be happening, in Hua Hin
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New Hospital announced
State of the art facility at last for Hua Hin area
HUA HIN, THAILAND For the last few years in Hua Hin the two most common complaints by the residents here have been the lack of enough good schools, and the standard of the medical facilities available in the town. One of these complaints was addressed by the announcement on Tuesday (11th November) by the Bangkok Hospital group confirming their plans to open a brand new hospital south of the town centre. Full details could not be given at this stage as the plans are still being scrutinised for its environmental impact by the relevant authorities, but this would only mean changes to the design and construction at worst. The site earmarked for the hospital is between 3 and 4 kilometres south of the town centre. The time scale for the completion of the hospital was not announced,
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but it is likely that it will be completed within two years. The announcement was made at a seminar held in the Sofitel Centara Grand Resort and Villas in Hua Hin, which was presented by Dr Michael Moreton. Dr Moreton, who writes a monthly health article for the Observer magazine, hinted that the new facility was likely to be similar in size and scope to their hospital on Ko Samui, which is a 50-bed secondary healthcare care facility, providing a wide range of medical services and specialties, including Emergency and Trauma care, Surgery, Internal Medicine, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Ear-Nose-Throat, Dr Michael Moreton from the Obstetrics and Gynecology, Neu- Bangkok Hospital Medical Centre rosurgery, Nephrology, Psychiatry, Cardiology and Ophthalmol- cal population and tourists will be ogy. The medical facilities there relieved to have a state of the art include a modern Emergency and Story continues on pg. 2 Trauma unit, Out-patient department, In-Patient department, 6 fully equipped ICU beds, 2 ultramodern Operation rooms, a new Hemodialysis unit, Spiral CT scan, fully equipped Laboratory with Blood Bank, well stocked Pharmacy, and a Physiotherapy unit. There are more than 15 highly trained doctors working full time at that hospital. The Bangkok Hospital Hua Hin would obviously need to refer some of its patients to their excellent facilities in Bangkok, but both the lo-