Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital

Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai, or Suan Dok, is Chiang Mai University's teaching hospital and a referral centre for the north. Its emergency room, on the 1st floor of the Chareum Building, is open 24 hours and sees the most urgent cases first under a standard triage scale.

For booked private care, the university's Sriphat Medical Center, a 171-bed hospital on the same grounds, offers more than 35 clinics run by Faculty of Medicine specialists, from cardiology and neurology to oncology, surgery and a travel clinic. Its Foreign Center arranges interpreters, medical reports and transfers, and handles insurance guarantees with more than 70 international insurers, which must be in place before an outpatient visit or before discharge.

It may suit residents and visitors in the north who need specialist or complex care and want a private route with interpreter support.

• 24-hour emergency room
• 171-bed private wing (Sriphat)
• Japanese, Chinese and Myanmar interpreters
• Direct billing with international insurers

Emergency room: Chareum Building, 1st floor; Sriphat Foreign Center: OPD building, 1st floor+66 53 936 910

Worth confirming: Sriphat needs your insurer's guarantee letter before an outpatient visit or discharge; start the request early by email or phone.

At the Sriphat Medical Center, the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic on the 13th floor covers menstrual and hormonal problems, menopause and care from pregnancy through childbirth. Its listed specialists include doctors in obstetric ultrasound, gynaecologic oncology, menopause, and pelvic floor and laparoscopic surgery, drawn from the Faculty of Medicine, whose department also runs a maternal-fetal medicine unit.

Births take place in the labour room on the 12th floor, staffed by obstetricians, and the nursery on the same floor cares for newborns up to 28 days old with problems such as jaundice, prematurity or low birth weight. Sriphat also lists a premarital and pre-pregnancy check-up programme and an RSV vaccine for pregnant women.

It may suit expectant mothers in Chiang Mai who want a private birth with university specialists and interpreter support.

• Labour room staffed by obstetricians
• Nursery for newborns up to 28 days
• Gynaecologic oncology specialists
• Pre-pregnancy check-up programme

Sriphat Building, 13th floor (clinic); 12th floor (labour room and nursery)+66 53 936 830

Worth confirming: Sriphat does not publish birth package prices in English; ask for a written estimate and whether a sick newborn would move to the main hospital's intensive care.

Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai University's teaching hospital, runs a 24-hour emergency room on the 1st floor of the Chareum Building. Patients are triaged using the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale, so the most urgent cases are seen first and others may wait.

As the university hospital and a referral centre for the north, it has a wide range of specialists behind the emergency room. Foreign patients who are admitted can use the Foreign Center at Sriphat Medical Center, the university's private hospital on the same grounds, for interpreters and insurance guarantees.

It may suit residents who need complex care and are prepared for a busy public setting.

• 24-hour emergency room
• Standard triage scale
• University referral hospital
• Foreign Center for admitted patients

Chareum Building, 1st floor24 hours

Worth confirming: No direct emergency number was found on the hospital's own pages; call 1669 for an ambulance, and Sriphat's Foreign Center (+66 53 936 910) for help after admission.

For booked private care, Chiang Mai University's Sriphat Medical Center runs a Cardiac Center on the 9th floor of its Excellent building, staffed by cardiologists from the Faculty of Medicine. Twelve cardiologists are listed.

The centre diagnoses and treats high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, valve disease and rhythm problems, and offers non-invasive tests including echocardiography and exercise stress testing. Sriphat's Foreign Center helps with interpreters and insurance guarantees.

It may suit patients in the north who want a university cardiologist through a private, appointment-based route.

• Twelve cardiologists listed
• Echocardiography and exercise stress test
• University hospital specialists
• Foreign Center support

Sriphat Medical Center, Excellent building, 9th floor+66 53 934 759

Worth confirming: Hours, catheter procedures and prices are not published on the centre's page; ask Sriphat what is done on site and what is referred to the main hospital.