Expensive or Worth?
Economic situation today makes Thai people to be more cautious about their expense even in necessary issues like healthcare cost. It is good thing that we have national healthcare coverage through “Universal Healthcare Plan” and “Social Security Healthcare Plan”. However the healthcare budget allocated by capitation for these plans may be too low, so we still faced with quality concern and complaint from patients. Even some university and government hospitals that provided tertiary care still didn't join with these healthcare schemes. The main reason is that high level, tertiary healthcare costs more than the budget allocated. High level healthcare needs more medical specialists, sophisticated medical equipments, modern medicine and supplies, and most of them are very costly for investment.
For some Thai people, important question was raised why the cost of healthcare in private sector is very expensive compared to free service or very low price in government sector. The question can be answered reasonably that the government spends great amount of our taxes to subsidize these services through healthcare budget. Contrary to government sector, the private sector has to invest in all categories like land and buildings, instruments, all personnel's salaries, etc.
Even in private sector, the level of standard of cares still varies upon hospitals to hospitals. To set up higher standard of cares will cost the hospital more than others. Bangkok Hospital Chanthaburi has set up higher standard as providing 24 hour service with specialists on duty ( internal medicine internist, surgeon, pediatrician, etc.), modern equipments like Multisliced CT, MRI, Fully equipped ICU. Although it is costly but our patients will get more accurate, definite diagnosis and better treatment.
So price is not the single most important factor for you to choose hospital. Bangkok Hospital Chanthaburi commits to develop this hospital to be high standard healthcare institute by continuously developing our staff's competency and up to date knowledge, investing in modern, necessary equipment and technology to equip our team with appropriate tool that will benefit most to our customers. At Bangkok Hospital Chanthaburi, we now have MRI service for diagnosis of brain, spine, joint, and intra-abdominal diseases. Many tertiary care services are currently provided i.e. cancer chemotherapy, joint replacement, laparoscopic surgery, modern ICU care, etc.
However, Bangkok Hospital Chanthaburi provides these high level services with reasonable local price. When compared to same level care price in Bangkok , our patients pay less than half of the price in Bangkok . So you can be ensured that, at Bangkok Hospital Chanthaburi, we commit to provide high level and standard healthcare with worthy price.
As we aim to give you the utmost level of service and attention, any comments or suggestions you may have to help us better serve you would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to write your message in the box below.
Once again, I would like to thank you on behalf of Bangkok Chanthaburi Hospital for giving us the opportunity to serve you.
