a hospital · ThailandSamitivej Sukhumvit Hospital

A 275-bed private hospital on Sukhumvit Soi 49 in Bangkok, opened in June 1979 and now owned by Bangkok Dusit Medical Services. It runs a children's hospital on the same site and a second general hospital at Srinakarin, and publishes an unusually long price list of check-up programmes broken down by sex and by decade of life.

Samitivej's first hospital opened in June 1979. The group now runs seven facilities in Thailand — Sukhumvit, Srinakarin, Sriracha, Thonburi, Chonburi, Chinatown and the children's hospitals — plus an international clinic in Yangon, and it belongs to Bangkok Dusit Medical Services, the largest private hospital company in the country.

Sukhumvit 49 sits in the part of Bangkok where the Japanese community lives, and the hospital's language list reflects it. As of 2009, 40 per cent of the patients seen across Samitivej's centres were not Thai — a figure reported about the group and about visits, not about individual people, and not refreshed since.

Inference — the shape of the published price list says something about who is buying. A hospital that prices knees sells operations to people who fly in for them; a hospital that prices fifteen different annual check-ups by age band sells a yearly appointment to people who already live nearby. Samitivej publishes both, but the check-up list is far longer.

Check-up programmes are bought off the page, each with a promotional price beside a struck-through regular price and a date by which the voucher must be used. Surgical packages are quoted the same way: the endoscopic discectomy programme for senior patients read on 16 September 2026 named two nights in a standard room and then excluded pre-operative screening, laboratory work, special X-rays, medication for underlying conditions, complications, implanted screws, take-home medicine, physiotherapy and orthoses. The exclusion list is four times the length of the inclusion list.

As of 16 September 2026 the hospital lists a Basic Check-up Program for men or women at 3,500 baht against a regular 7,500, usable to 31 January 2027, and runs the same list up through age bands to 74,500 baht for a longevity and brain-health programme for women over 60. Its spinal package is 365,000 baht for endoscopic discectomy, screws not included. The site names Joint Commission International accreditation without a year.